A newly discovered gene switch may help turn chemotherapy-resistant pancreatic cancer into a treatable disease.

A gene called FOXJ1 may drive resistance to taxane chemotherapy during treatment for advanced prostate cancer, according to a new study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Beth Israel ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ellen Matloff covers genetic counseling, testing and digital health. One in 20 people carries one change in a gene called DPYD. If ...

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which tumors evade drugs designed to starve and kill them, a study shows. Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - October is breast cancer awareness month. A time not only for education and early detection, but also for hope and survival. A local pharmacology professor went from teaching ...