You probably know someone who is affected by cancer. This disease results when cells divide uncontrollably and can make a person sick, sometimes very seriously. I’m a biologist who specializes in the ...

Cardiac Tumors are very rare but have devastating consequences given that they involve such an important organ. The majority of tumors are benign myxomas, which can present in very subtle ways causing ...

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic cardiologists have developed a new catheter-based technique to remove papillary fibroelastomas — the most common type of benign heart tumors — in patients who are ...

New cutting-edge software developed in Melbourne can help uncover how the most common heart tumor in children forms and changes. And the technology has the potential to further our understanding of ...

The last time Antisha Anderson was in this third-floor operating room at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, she was groggy from anesthesia and puzzled by the big, round lights shining down on her.

Soft tissue cancer, including heart cancer, represent just 0.7 percent of all new cancer cases in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 11,410 new cases of soft ...

Removal of all cardiopulmonary structures involved by the tumor followed by orthotopic allotransplantation has been proposed to improve long-term survival for malignant tumor patients. In one study, ...