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.

CDK9 and Cancer

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Prognosis

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What Causes Cancer?

Living with Cancer Pain

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

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Cancer Pathophysiology

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Diagnosis

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What is Tumorigenesis?

Insights into Oncofertility

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Targeted Cancer Therapies

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Symptoms

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

Cancer Epidemiology

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Glossary

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Pediatric Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Secondary Brain Cancer

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

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

Cancer History

Cancer Pain

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Management

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

Cancer Research

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

What is Cancer?

Cancer Classification

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

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

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Latest Cancer News and Research

Sex hormones dictate how skin stem cells renew themselves

For a long time, differences between females and males were mainly associated with the reproductive organs. Yet organs that have nothing to do with reproduction, such as the skin, can also be shaped by sex.

14 Oct 2026

Novel gene rejuvenation therapy preserves cell identity while reversing age

Every organ and tissue progressively loses function and integrity as it ages. In fact, researchers have identified "hallmarks of aging" that not only present specific processes impacted by age, but are also thought of as levers that, if successfully targeted, could help turn back the aging clock and result in tissue rejuvenation.

14 Oct 2026

Common blood pressure drug boosts brown adipose tissue activity and metabolism

Scientists have discovered that the drug losartan, commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, boosts brown adipose tissue activity in mice, enhancing their metabolism.

14 Oct 2026

New study highlights severe depression risks for young doctor trainees

Every summer, more than 1,600 recent medical school graduates start training to become obstetrician-gynecologists at hospitals across the United States.

14 Oct 2026

CSHL researchers find way to make immunotherapy effective against colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of cancer-related death for people under 50. Its most common forms generally aren't treatable, either through conventional means like chemotherapy or newer immunotherapy drugs.

14 Oct 2026

Finnish study finds poor oral health increases jawbone necrosis risks in breast cancer patients

Antiresorptive drugs, which reduce bone breakdown, are an important part of treatment for breast cancer that has spread to the bones. However, their use can be associated with osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ), a condition in which bone tissue in the jaw dies.

14 Oct 2026

Chemists develop blueprint for designing powerful fluorescent materials for better disease detection

Chemists at the University of Bath have discovered how tiny molecular changes can transform the color and brightness of fluorescent probes based on the blue molecule azulene, paving the way for more powerful imaging tools for detecting diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson’s and cancer.

14 Oct 2026

Scientists identify novel autoimmune driver behind DNA repair breakdown in childhood cancer

Researchers have found the first evidence for a previously unsuspected cause of pediatric cancer. They showed that children with such cancers were more likely than their healthy peers to produce ‘auto-antibodies’ targeting six proteins necessary for normal DNA repair. Likewise, they showed that young adults with cancer had greater amounts of these circulating antibodies already years before diagnosis.

14 Oct 2026

New research links postmenopausal ovarian tissue remodeling to elevated cancer vulnerability

In a new, paradigm-shifting study in ovaries from 28 women, scientists at Northwestern University and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging found in the decades well past menopause, the ovary remains biologically active and continues to remodel with age, showing increased inflammation and changes in tissue structure. The study also found a molecular link between ovarian aging and cancer.

14 Oct 2026

Researchers uncover how metastatic colorectal cancer evades immune attack

Researchers at Hokkaido University, in collaboration with an international team of scientists led by the University of South Florida Health and Tampa General Hospital, have uncovered an important mechanism behind immune evasion in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

13 Oct 2026

CHOP researchers link MAP2K4 variants to a neurodevelopmental disorder

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have discovered the mechanisms of previously unknown changes in a gene that result in symptoms associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder.

13 Oct 2026

Scientists studied diet and lung cancer in 95,612 adults. One eating pattern stood out

A prospective study of 95,612 U.S. adults found that those with the highest sulfur microbial diet scores had a 23% higher adjusted lung cancer incidence hazard and a 19% higher lung cancer-related mortality hazard than those with the lowest scores. However, the associations weakened after accounting for overall dietary quality and competing causes of death, and the findings do not establish a causal relationship.

13 Oct 2026

Pancreatic cancer cells continuously reshape DNA to evade treatment

A new analysis of nearly half a million cells from dozens of pancreatic tumors, led by researchers at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and New York University (NYU), reveals how pancreatic cancer cells continuously reshape their genetic makeup over time, enabling them to evade treatment.

13 Oct 2026

Enhanced CAR T-cell therapy may improve treatment options for patients with B-cell blood cancers

Results from a phase I clinical trial led by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) show a possible way to improve therapy options for patients with relapsed or treatment-resistant B-cell blood cancers.

13 Oct 2026

Charity funds Aston University research into childhood cancer MRI

Aston University's Dr Jan Novak has accepted funding of £45,000 from cancer charity Help Harry Help Others (HHHO) to support a PhD student to research new ways of using MRI scans of children with cancer to better inform their doctors and improve treatment.

13 Oct 2026

Developing biomaterials for soft tissue reconstruction

Explore how biomaterials and additive manufacturing support medical device development for soft tissue reconstruction.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific – Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Solutions 13 Oct 2026

Childhood leukemia treatment causes rapid, lasting challenges for patient families

New research in the October 2026 issue of JNCCN-Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds that families of children receiving treatment for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) experience substantial and lasting challenges beginning early after diagnosis, according to a new multicenter study embedded in a Children's Oncology Group (COG) trial.

13 Oct 2026

Women with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome more likely to have Alzheimer's and dementia

Alzheimer's disease and dementia may be more common in women with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), formerly known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to a review of existing evidence published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.

13 Oct 2026

Replacement chemical for harmful phthalates may restrict fetal growth

A chemical used to make plastic more flexible, once introduced as a safer substitute for older additives now known to be harmful, may itself also be harmful, slowing babies' growth in the womb, a new study shows.

13 Oct 2026

Single-cell analysis reveals how pancreatic cancer evades treatment

An analysis of nearly half a million cells from dozens of patients' tumors reveals how cancer cells continuously reshape their genetic makeup over time, enabling them to evade treatment for one of the deadliest forms of cancer.

13 Oct 2026