At certain point of cancer progression, primary localized tumors may disseminate to distant organs, including lymph nodes, lungs, bones, liver, or brain. The current options to treat cancer metastases ...

The trillions of microbial cells in our gastrointestinal tract have their own genomes and metabolic products, many of which can affect human biology, and some of them can be beneficial, while others ...

Researchers from the lab of Prof. Sarah-Maria Fendt (VIB-KU Leuven) and colleagues have uncovered that the availability of the amino acid aspartate is one reason why the lung is a frequent organ of ...

Sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma (sRCC) is an aggressive form of kidney cancer that can be found in at least 20 percent of advanced kidney tumors and has high rates of metastasis. sRCC arises through ...

Cancer specialists have long known that anemia, caused by a lack of healthy red blood cells, can arise when cancer metastasizes to the bone, but it’s been unclear why. A research team led by Princeton ...

More than half of cancer patients in whom the cancer spreads beyond the primary site have lung metastases. What makes the lungs such a tempting place for cancer cells? To find out, the team of Prof.