Focusing solely on individual behavior, genetics and screening in the face of rising cancer rates hides the structural causes of the disease, writes Le Monde's Stéphane Foucart in his column.

Fleur Breteau in the garden of the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, France, July 17, 2025. JULIEN DANIEL/MYOP FOR LE MONDE Bareheaded, with bright lipstick and a piercing gaze, Fleur Breteau has ...

Cancer cells are cells gone wrong — in other words, they no longer respond to many of the signals that control cellular growth and death. Cancer cells originate within tissues and, as they grow and ...

Skin cancer -- the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in your skin -- is the most common of all human cancers. About 1 in 5 Americans will get some type of skin cancer in their lifetime, and more ...

The dominant rationale to generate new (and to assess old) anticancer chemotherapeutic agents is to determine their cell-autonomous effects — that is, their capacity to reduce the growth (cytostasis) ...