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Occupational and environmental exposures can put specific groups of people at higher risk of cancer, including firefighters. A new study by investigators at Mass General Brigham examines a cancer ...

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...

POLG-related diseases disrupt the function of the mitochondria, or "powerhouses" of the cell — starving them of energy.

While both are called medullary carcinoma, these cancers differ in many ways: ...