Diagnosis and Treatment

Unhealthy Gut Helps Breast Cancer Spread, Research Reveals

An unhealthy gut triggers changes in normal breast tissue that helps breast cancer spread to other parts of the body, new research from UVA Cancer Center reveals.

The gut microbiome – the collection of microbes that naturally live inside us – can be disrupted by poor diet, long-term antibiotic use, obesity or other factors. When this happens, the ailing microbiome reprograms important immune cells in healthy breast tissue, called mast cells, to facilitate cancer’s spread, UVA Health’s new discovery shows.

The Best Foods To Eat When You Have Breast Cancer

Opt for fruits and vegetables, whole grains and lean protein to stay healthy

Whether you’re newly diagnosed with breast cancer or you’re facing breast cancer that’s spread to another part of your body, you probably have many questions. These may include: What should I eat?

We talk with dietitian Anna Taylor, RD, who offers diet tips for those undergoing cancer treatment, including what to eat and what to avoid.

As a cancer patient, I felt dismissed by doctors. As a doctor, I am desperate for the system to change

When Ben Bravery began studying medicine after surviving bowel cancer he found something missing from the curriculum – patients

The young patient sitting across from me is no longer calm. His left hand is clenched in a fist, his right one is shaking. Red blotches have broken out on his neck.

“Why am I sick?” he asks.

Preventing Cancer Metastasis with Collagen

How do cancer cells travel beyond the primary tumor, stay dormant for years and then suddenly wake up, causing cancer to recur? Researchers at Mount Sinai believe they may have found one answer—and that the discovery could offer new tools for predicting and preventing cancer relapses.

What Are the Stages of Cancer and What Do They Mean?

The stage of cancer indicates how advanced it is and what treatments will work best.

After a diagnosis is made, your doctor will stage the cancer.

The stage defines the location of the cancer, how much it has spread, how big it is, and how aggressive it is.

Knowing the stage of cancer is important because it typically determines your treatment options.

A cancer is referred to by the stage it’s given when you’re first diagnosed, even if it worsens to a different stage.

What You Need to Know About Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is responsible for more cancer deaths than any other cancer in men and women.share on twitter In fact, it claims more than 150,000 American lives every year. Despite these astonishing numbers, many people know very little about this disease. This is what everyone should know about lung cancer.

New Discovery Could Lead to Improved Cancer Treatment

The finding could improve cancer immunotherapy, a promising therapy that targets cancer cells using the body’s own immune system rather than radiation.

Previously regarded merely as an immune system helper, a kind of white blood cell now seems to be the initiator of the body’s defenses against cancerous tumors. The finding could improve cancer immunotherapy, a promising treatment that targets cancer cells using the body’s own immune system rather than radiation.

Protein produced by soft-tissue sarcomas makes immune cells ‘go bad’

Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have discovered that cancerous tumors called soft-tissue sarcomas produce a protein that switches immune cells from tumor-attacking to tumor-promoting. The study, published today in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Reports, could lead to improved treatments for soft-tissue sarcomas.

The researchers focused on the tumor microenvironment-;an ecosystem of blood vessels and other cells recruited by tumors to supply them with nutrients and help them survive.

After Treatment Comes a New Battle, and Cancer Patients Aren’t Prepared

This essay, by Emerson Riter, age 15, from The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s Ninth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 16,664 entries.

Whenever I go swimming, somebody asks about the scar on my chest.

"Trojan Horse" Nanoparticles Kill Cancer Cells Without Drugs

Scientists have created a “Trojan horse” that sneaks anticancer nanoparticles into cancer cells and causes them to self-destruct without any drugs. The research is still in its early days, but the new method has already proved to be remarkably effective at killing cancer cells in a petri dish and reducing tumor growth in mice. 

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