Focusing solely on individual behavior, genetics and screening in the face of rising cancer rates hides the structural causes of the disease, writes Le Monde's Stéphane Foucart in his column.

Cancer cells are cells gone wrong — in other words, they no longer respond to many of the signals that control cellular growth and death. Cancer cells originate within tissues and, as they grow and ...

Lung cancer is a cancer that starts in the lungs and can spread to other areas of the body. The symptoms, outlook, and treatment depend on the stage of cancer and how far it has spread. Lung cancer is ...

The dominant rationale to generate new (and to assess old) anticancer chemotherapeutic agents is to determine their cell-autonomous effects — that is, their capacity to reduce the growth (cytostasis) ...

Cancer can spread to the lymph nodes via a person’s lymphatic system. From here, it can travel through the lymphatic system to other parts of the body. The spread of cancer to a new part of the body ...