Liquid biopsy is increasingly recognized as a promising tool for cancer detection and treatment monitoring, yet its effectiveness is often limited by the extremely low levels of tumor-derived DNA ...

Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first blood-based genetic test that can detect gene mutations in non-small cell lung cancer patients. The cobas EGFR Mutation Test v2 is a ...

Doctors say ovarian cancer is often detected late because its symptoms mimic everyday health problems and there is no ...

Researchers are studying a machine learning-powered warning system for breast cancer. It works by detecting subtle changes in a mammogram that humans can't spot, but could soon become cancer.

It's a fundamental principle of science: Correlation does not equal causation. Every cancer cell has genetic mutations, but ...

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal. But new treatments mean that may be changing, and people with the disease now have ...