Cancer

Entering the Mathematical Neuro-Oncology lab on Mayo Clinic’s location in Phoenix, Arizona, is like walking onto the bridge of a ship in some fictional universe. ...

The inflammatory disease pancreatitis can be painful and life-threatening on its own, and it can also increase the risk of pancreatic cancer — which is ...

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has successfully renewed funding for its Cancer Center Support Grant from the National Cancer Institute. The NCI grant award provides ...

Many viruses are drawn to cancer like iron filings to a magnet. Why not put these viruses to use — finding, infecting and killing cancer ...

Balancing the risks and benefits of disease screening can be a tricky business. For lung cancer, screening is recommended for a specific group: people age ...

A few years ago, a team of brain cancer researchers ventured a hypothesis. The team wondered whether a particular protein, known as Yes-Associated Protein, or YAP, which ...

In the quest to turn laboratory breakthroughs into new cancer treatments, much can be lost in translation. Only a fraction of “eureka moments” result in ...

In Shakespeare's time, medicine was based on the Hippocratic theory of the four bodily humors, or fluids. Good health was all about keeping these humors ...

The current diagnostic tools in a pathologist’s arsenal sometimes cannot provide a clear distinction between primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (one of the few lymphomas more common in ...

The Division of Engineering arose at Mayo Clinic pretty much the first time a clinician needed an instrument and didn't have time to order it ...