A new model for calculating invasive breast cancer risk, called the CARE model, has been found to give better estimates of the number of breast cancers that would develop in African American women 50 to 79 years of age than an earlier model which was based primarily on data from white women. Both models were […]

A team of researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), using a mouse model, have uncovered a novel protein interaction that promotes the spread of cancer cells (a process known as metastasis) in a class of tumors collectively called sarcomas. In doing so, they have found the first instance in which the modification and destruction […]

An international scientific team led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has found that the elevated levels of certain proteins typically associated with keeping cancer cells alive may actually correspond with improved patient survival in ovarian cancer. These proteins, all members of cellular networks that regulate […]

Researchers have created a new imaging compound in mice that selectively binds to certain cancer cells and glows, or fluoresces, only when processed by these cells. This cancer-specific fluorescence allowed the investigators to successfully visualize very small tumors in the peritoneum — the tissue that lines the wall of the abdomen — in mice with […]