...tumors becomes more routine and therapies are targeted at specific molecular traits in the tumor, the location of the primary tumor becomes less important, said Rixe, the director of the experimental therapeutics program at Georgia Health Scien...

...Aiken County Common Pleas Court. She said she had a lumpectomy on her left breast Dec. 15, when doctors took out the primary tumor and a lymph node. Doctors were to test the node to see if the cancer had spread, the lawsuit states. But Ms. Stokes...

...studying a curious thing about small cell lung cancer. When patients with this cancer are treated with radiation, the primary tumor is suppressed, but very often the patient then develops cancer at another site, said O'Reilly. The new cancer...

...Tuesday. The researchers reported that the gene, contained in a modified virus, "was shown to dramatically inhibit primary tumor growth" in laboratory mice that had been injected with both rat and human cancers. Two drugs, angiostatin and endostatin...

...vessels inside tumors grown in mice could be a first step toward preventing the deadly spread of cancer cells from primary tumors. "We have identified a mechanism of breast cancer metastasis. I wouldn't say it's the mechanism, because there...