Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are rare stomach tumours driven by KIT or PDGFRA gene mutations. Unlike typical ...
The rarest cancer on record did not begin in a human organ at all. It started inside a parasite, then crossed a biological boundary that scientists had never seen breached in this way, turning a ...
Breast cancer in adolescents is extremely rare, with most teenage breast lumps being benign, often linked to hormonal changes ...
A cancer diagnosis always brings challenges and uncertainty. But for those diagnosed with so-called “rare” cancers — traditionally described as diseases that affect 40,000 or fewer Americans every ...
Tamara Mulley waited 10 months for a gynaecology appointment to see if she had endometriosis to later discover that she had a ...
Genetic ancestry may play a key role in how acral melanoma, a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer, develops and behaves, ...
Incidence is increasing faster than melanoma, with typical presentation in the mid-70s and risk amplified by UV exposure, fair skin, immunosuppression, and MCPyV-associated oncogenesis. Accurate ...
Dr. Sara Teichholtz, a psychiatrist in Washington, D.C., was early in her pregnancy when she took a routine prenatal test to check for chromosomal abnormalities in her developing baby. So, Teichholtz, ...
Scientists have identified a hidden barrier that prevents immunotherapy from working against a rare liver cancer. Immunotherapy, which activates the body’s own immune system to kill cancer cells, has ...