Author of the book The 100-Year Blueprint Dr Navin Gnanasekaran explains how chronic inflammation can damage the body over ...

Chronic inflammatory bowel disease is challenging to treat and carries a risk of complications, including the development of bowel cancer. Young people are particularly affected: when genetic ...

As we age, chronic inflammation-or "inflammaging"-increases throughout the body and weakens our ability to fight cancer.

Recent clinical trials have reignited the interest in simple anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin for controlling the inflammation associated with cancer. The results suggest that these drugs reduced ...

Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is a rare and fast-growing type of breast cancer. Inflammatory breast cancer occurs primarily in younger women and is influenced by factors such as ethnicity and body ...

One of the biggest mysteries of cancer is why it predominantly and almost exclusively targets people in middle age or older. During the first five decades of life, you’re twice as likely to die in a ...

Cancer cells have one relentless goal: to grow and divide. While most stick together within the original tumor, some rogue cells break away to traverse to distant organs. There, they can lie ...

Chronic inflammation goes hand-in-hand with most common chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease and type 2 ...

Scientists have found that statins -- commonly used cholesterol-lowering drugs -- may block a pathway that leads to the development of cancer in the context of chronic inflammation. A new study led by ...

For the first time, researchers have found that lung cancer patients who have a combination of high levels of depression and inflammation at diagnosis are later found with continuing depressive ...