Hepatitis C is a serious disease that can cause severe damage to the liver and trigger cirrhosis, liver failure or liver cancer. Yet most people who have hepatitis C don’t know they are infected.“It’s a silent disease,” said Minhhuyen T. Nguyen, MD, A...

Cancer that starts in the liver is called primary liver cancer. Hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC, is the most common type of primary liver cancer. Some people are surprised to learn that HCC is often caused by hepatitis B and C viruses. Now that hepatitis C...

Dr. Edna Cukierman, associate professor and co-director of the new Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, spoke with us about plans for this new world class research institute. How did you become interes...

 Cancer researchers can’t stop talking about CRISPR.CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a gene editing technique that’s used to remove and insert genetic material from DNA. Scientists paired a navigati...

  Galina SemenovaGraduate StudentDr. Jon Chernoff’s LabFox Chase Cancer [email protected]  BiographyI grew up in Tambov, Russia, a mid-sized city 300 miles south-east of Moscow, in a rather artistic family where I dreamt of ...

Updated: 2019Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men, with some 200,000 cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year.“Considering how often prostate cancer occurs in men, every man should familiarize himself with its signs and risk factors,” sai...