The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 313,780 cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States ...

Years to decades after breast tumors have been removed, cancer may return or metastasize in other organs. Bone is frequently affected by metastasis and in the current study published in the journal ...

A computer creates 3D images from the gamma camera data. A bone scan uses an imaging technique called single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). SPECT involves a radioactive substance and ...

This is called bone metastasis, or "bone mets," and it's different from cancer that starts in the bone. Cancer that leads to bone metastasis may have started in your breast, your prostate ...

Raman is also a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. “We first had to determine whether DDX3 was expressed in ...

Bone metastasis is associated with poor survival rates and a markedly reduced quality of life. Osteocytes, the most abundant cells in bone, are essential for maintaining bone structure and ...

Bone cancer is hard to treat and prone to metastasis. Research teams at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have a new strategy to attack it. Their open-access study, which appears in ...

A key gene that fuels the molecular cascade driving prostate cancer bone metastasis progression may open avenues for targeted therapies. Laura is an Assistant Editor for The Scientist. She has a ...