One characteristic oncologists use to describe tumors is how “aggressive” they become. This term suggests a tumor forms, grows, or spreads quickly. Unfortunately, more aggressive tumors typically have ...

Using a novel method to analyze tumor growth rates, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have provided the most in-depth assessment to date of how fast breast cancers grow in patients and how ...

Circulating tumor cells were first described in 1869 by Thomas Ashworth, an Australian pathologist who observed them in a peripheral blood sample taken from a patient with metastatic cancer. 1 They ...