Cancer

Cancer refers to a group of more than a hundred diseases that can originate in many different parts of the body. Cancer begins in your cells, which are the building blocks of your body.

Metabolic Flexibility in Cancer: How Diet and Nutrition Shape Tumor Survival and Resistance

Cancer cells survive therapy by dynamically rewiring their metabolism in response to nutrient availability, microenvironmental stress, and therapeutic pressure. This article explains how dietary interventions may exploit metabolic flexibility and plasticity to enhance treatment response while accounting for tumor heterogeneity.

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cancer Glossary

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Pain

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Symptoms

Discovery of Blood Cancer Cells that show Plasma Cell-Like Differentiation

Cancer Diagnosis

What is Cancer?

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Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

What is Immunochemotherapy?

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Nanostructured toxins for the selective destruction of drug-resistant human CXCR4style+ colorectal cancer stem cells

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Cancer Prognosis

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Cured Meats, Nitrates, and Cancer Risk: Why Food Source and Processing Matter

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Cancer Classification

Cancer Research

CDK9 and Cancer

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

Secondary Lung Cancer

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

What Causes Cancer?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Management

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Insights into Oncofertility

Cancer History

Latest Cancer News and Research

New study uncovers breakthrough window to prevent brain metastasis

Metastasis, the process by which a tumor spreads throughout the body, is associated with the majority of cancer deaths.

29 Sep 2026

Radioactive collagen tiles double survival for brain metastasis patients

A multicenter clinical trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that implanting collagen tiles during brain surgery to deliver targeted radiation therapy dramatically improved tumor control, lowered the risk of recurrence and improved overall survival compared to current standard of care for patients with newly diagnosed brain metastases in need of surgical resection.

29 Sep 2026

Scientists discover how excess dietary salt drives 'lean MASH'

Fatty liver disease is commonly associated with obesity, yet a growing number of people with normal body weight develop a severe form of the condition.

29 Sep 2026

New registry data shows semaglutide does not cause pancreatic cancer

New research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of The European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Milan, Italy (Sept 28 – Oct 2) shows no link between semaglutide use and pancreatic cancer using nationwide registry data from Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

29 Sep 2026

Exercise may reshape your gut microbiome to support recovery

Research reveals how exercise alters gut microbes, influencing recovery and proposing 'intestinal rehabilitation' for those with limited exercise capacity.

29 Sep 2026

Tailored ACT+ may address psychological and supportive-care for cancer survivors

Advances in early diagnosis and cancer treatment mean that growing numbers of people are surviving cancer, with approximately 3.5 million people now living with and beyond the disease in the United Kingdom.

29 Sep 2026

Blood tests can identify cancer neoantigens for personalized immunotherapy

Cancer neoantigens and neoantigen-specific T cells were identified from patient blood samples by analyzing circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and immune cells, respectively, and they largely matched those found through traditional tumor tissue biopsy in many patients.

29 Sep 2026

Late diagnosis and systemic gaps drive high cancer death rates in the Balkans

In the Balkans, cancer survival rates lag due to late diagnoses and weak screening programs, highlighting the need for improved early detection strategies.

From BGI Genomics 29 Sep 2026

From wild rice to tarwi, researchers are exploring the health potential of Indigenous foods

A conference paper reviewed North American and Andean Indigenous foods, including Three Sisters crops, wild rice, native berries, tarwi, quinoa, and amaranth, and described their nutrients and bioactive compounds. Evidence for health effects remains limited for many of these foods, and the authors call for research developed with Indigenous communities that also supports traditional knowledge and food sovereignty.

28 Sep 2026

Five-session SBRT preserves quality of life before pancreatic cancer surgery

Patients preparing for pancreatic cancer surgery maintained better physical function and experienced less fatigue with five treatments of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) than with 28 treatments of conventional radiation therapy given with chemotherapy, according to a randomized phase 2 clinical trial.

28 Sep 2026

Blood markers linked to healthy eating may reflect more than food choices

Researchers analyzed dietary data from 204,938 UK Biobank participants and identified blood protein and metabolite profiles associated with adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet. These profiles showed stronger links to several health outcomes and modeled life expectancy than the diet score, but the observational study cannot establish that the diet caused those differences.

28 Sep 2026

Five-treatment radiation provides excellent long-term prostate cancer control

Five-treatment stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) provided excellent long-term cancer control with fewer urinary and sexual side effects than surgery in the first randomized trial to directly compare the treatments for localized prostate cancer.

28 Sep 2026

Triple combination therapy trial for HR+/HER2− breast cancer halts early due to toxicity concerns

HR+/HER2− breast cancer constitutes approximately 65–75% of all breast cancer cases worldwide. Although CDK4/6 inhibitors have substantially extended progression-free survival (PFS), up to 60% of patients derive no clinical benefit from these agents, underscoring the urgent need for more effective therapeutic strategies.

28 Sep 2026

Focused radiosurgery extends survival for small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases

Patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that had spread to the brain lived a median of 17 months after focused stereotactic radiosurgery, compared with nine months after an advanced form of whole brain radiation therapy, an unexpected secondary finding from the first randomized phase 3 trial to compare the treatment approaches in this population.

28 Sep 2026

Fractionated radiosurgery extends survival for brain metastasis patients

Delivering focused radiation therapy over three to five sessions after surgery for a large brain metastasis reduced the risk of cancer returning at the surgical site compared with delivering the radiation in a single session, according to the results of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology A071801 presented today at the plenary session of the American Society for Radiation Oncology in Boston.

28 Sep 2026

New antibody treatment blocks immune response to prevent Alzheimer's damage

There is no treatment available today to stop the death of brain cells in neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease, in which twisted clumps of a protein called tau accumulate in the brain.

28 Sep 2026

Zebrafish study reveals how albinism gene influences embryonic eye development

Tiny, striped zebrafish are helping scientists trace how a gene linked to albinism influences eye development, work that may ultimately help explain some of the vision problems experienced by people with the condition and guide the search for new treatments.

28 Sep 2026