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.

Cancer Pain Management

Cancer Glossary

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Prognosis

Cancer Pain

What is Tumorigenesis?

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

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Management

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

CDK9 and Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

What is Cancer?

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Insights into Oncofertility

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Epidemiology

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Classification

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Pediatric Cancer

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer History

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Cancer Diagnosis

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Cancer Pathophysiology

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

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

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

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

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Cancer Research

Secondary Lung Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Latest Cancer News and Research

Growth hormone therapy improves height after childhood stem cell transplants

Growth impairment is a common late effect of childhood stem cell transplantation. A Japan-wide study found that growth hormone therapy improves adult height, but prior radiation therapy and transplant-related complications negatively affect how much children benefit.

7 Aug 2026

Researchers find a new genetic vulnerability in acute myeloid leukemia

A study published in Nature Cell Biology reports a new vulnerability in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that might lead to novel therapies to treat this cancer while minimizing harm to normal cells.

7 Aug 2026

Piezo ion channels: Key regulators of digestive health and disease

Mechanosensitive Piezo ion channels, particularly Piezo1 and Piezo2, are gaining recognition as central regulators of digestive system physiology and disease.

7 Aug 2026

New review explores purinergic signaling pathways in osteoarthritis progression

A growing understanding of purinergic signaling is reshaping how scientists view osteoarthritis (OA), revealing an intricate communication network that influences joint inflammation, cartilage degeneration, bone remodeling, and chronic pain.

7 Aug 2026

Exhausted T cells balance graft tolerance and infection risk

A comprehensive new review examines the complex role of T cell exhaustion in organ transplantation, highlighting how this dysfunctional immune state can both promote graft tolerance and create vulnerabilities to infection and malignancy.

7 Aug 2026

Researchers discover smart molecular glue that activates inside oxidative cancer cells

Investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a platform for systematically discovering molecular glues that could become protein degradation drug candidates.

7 Aug 2026

Disrupted RNA methylation pathway accelerates Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s risks

A growing understanding of RNA biology is reshaping how scientists view the relationship between environmental toxicants, brain development, and neurodegenerative disease.

7 Aug 2026

Metabolic stress triggers long-lasting immune system changes in diabetes patients

A growing understanding of trained immunity, a form of long-lasting immune system adaptation, is reshaping how scientists view diabetes and its many complications.

7 Aug 2026

Air pollution in pregnancy raises birth risks differently across trimesters

A population-based study of 26,582 live singleton births in Madrid found that associations between NO₂ exposure and adverse birth outcomes varied by pregnancy stage, with key patterns emerging in the first and third trimesters.

6 Aug 2026

Nicotine gum may make smokeless tobacco withdrawal easier to manage

A randomized trial found that 2 mg nicotine gum controlled craving, anxiety, and sleep problems more effectively than behavioral counselling during smokeless tobacco cessation. Although abstinence rates were numerically higher with nicotine gum, the differences were not statistically significant, highlighting the need for larger studies.

6 Aug 2026

Autophagy modulation emerges as a strategy against cisplatin-resistant gastric cancer

Drug resistance remains one of the greatest obstacles to successful treatment of gastric cancer, limiting the long-term effectiveness of the widely used chemotherapy drug cisplatin.

6 Aug 2026

D-serine promotes gastric cancer growth by suppressing tumor immunity

Researchers from Keio University have found that D-serine increases the growth of gastric cancer by creating an immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory tumor microenvironment.

6 Aug 2026

New study reveals genetic drivers of inherited bone marrow failure syndrome

Inherited bone marrow failure syndrome, or IBMFS, describes a group of disorders in which inherited genetic abnormalities impair the bone marrow's ability to produce sufficient healthy blood cells.

6 Aug 2026

Nighttime light linked to conflicting signs of biological aging

Higher residential nighttime light exposure was associated with contrasting biological aging patterns in nearly 300,000 UK Biobank participants, depending on the aging algorithm used. PhenoAge and homeostatic dysregulation suggested a potentially adverse aging pattern, while KDM-BA showed the opposite association, underscoring uncertainty about how nighttime light relates to biological aging.

6 Aug 2026

Early radionuclide therapy delays progression in metastatic prostate cancer

Earlier use of a targeted radionuclide therapy delays metastatic prostate cancer progression when administered as part of a trio of drugs, according to a phase 3 clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and investigators at several other institutions worldwide.

6 Aug 2026

Tuft cell-like cancers exhibit unique biological characteristics across multiple organs

A growing body of evidence suggests that a rare epithelial cell type known as the tuft cell may play a far more significant role in cancer than previously recognized.

6 Aug 2026

PIWI proteins and piRNAs may unlock more effective stem cell therapies

Scientists are shedding new light on a little-known biological system that could help unlock the full potential of stem cell therapy, one of the most promising areas of modern medicine.

6 Aug 2026

New review links obesity with accelerated biological aging mechanisms

The global rise in obesity and population aging represents a major public health challenge, with growing evidence suggesting that excess body fat not only increases the risk of chronic disease but may also accelerate the biological aging process.

6 Aug 2026

New review advances understanding of biological mechanisms driving Ménière's disease

A comprehensive new review is bringing together the latest advances in Ménière's disease, offering a clearer picture of the biological mechanisms that may drive this complex inner ear disorder while highlighting new directions for diagnosis, disease modeling, and treatment.

6 Aug 2026

Multi-omics research uncovers new therapeutic targets for Fabry disease

A comprehensive review is shedding new light on Fabry disease, a rare inherited disorder that can progressively damage multiple organs and significantly affect quality of life.

6 Aug 2026