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 Cancer?

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

What Causes Cancer?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Pathophysiology

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

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Cancer Pain

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Glossary

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Insights into Oncofertility

Cancer Management

Cancer Symptoms

Secondary Brain Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Living with Cancer Pain

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer History

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Pediatric Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer Research

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

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

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Classification

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

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

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

CDK9 and Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Secondary Lung Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

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

Cancer Pain Management

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer Prognosis

Latest Cancer News and Research

A simple facial photograph may hold clues to cancer survival

FAHR-Face leverages AI to extract prognostic data from facial photographs, potentially transforming cancer survival predictions and clinical decision-making.

22 Oct 2026

BGI Genomics smarter stool testing detects colorectal cancer across Latin America

BGI Genomics' COLOTECT® addresses colorectal cancer in LATAM through innovative non-invasive screening, enhancing early detection and treatment efficiency.

From BGI Genomics 22 Oct 2026

Needle-free mRNA vaccines protect mice against COVID-19 and flu

A needle-free vaccination method protected mice against the viruses that cause COVID-19 and flu, offering a possible new way to deliver mRNA vaccines while limiting unwanted inflammation.

22 Oct 2026

Review offers guidance for managing recurrent catheter-related bloodstream infections

Patients who depend on long-term intravenous catheters for chemotherapy, hemodialysis, intravenous nutrition and other essential therapies face an ongoing risk of catheter-related bloodstream infections, a potentially life-threatening complication that can be difficult to manage when the device remains necessary for care.

22 Oct 2026

Study identifies blood proteins associated with aggressive prostate cancer risk

Proteins linked to the immune system, cell adhesion, blood vessel formation and known prostate cancer genes, were associated with the future risk of developing prostate cancer, including aggressive disease, in a new study led by researchers at Oxford Population Health.

21 Oct 2026

Beef can fit into healthy diets, but what about its environmental cost?

A narrative review published in Animal Frontiers highlights beef's contribution to high-quality protein and bioavailable micronutrients, while controlled trials generally found no adverse effects on selected cardiometabolic risk markers, although long-term disease outcomes remain uncertain. The authors argue that sustainable food policies should consider nutritional needs, environmental impacts, agricultural productivity, and rural livelihoods when evaluating beef's place in healthy diets.

21 Oct 2026

Penn State study identifies new regulator of jumping genes

As much as half of the human genome is composed of so-called "jumping genes." These DNA sequences can make copies of themselves that are inserted back into the genome at another location, playing a significant functional role in creating the diversity that drives evolution and in regulating how other genes are turned on or off.

21 Oct 2026

Study identifies new genetic factors underlying fat accumulation in the liver

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified additional genetic factors underlying fat accumulation in the liver.

21 Oct 2026

Altered fatty acid metabolism drives glioblastoma growth and treatment resistance

Glioma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults, and glioblastoma (GBM), particularly IDH (Isocitrate dehydrogenase)-wildtype disease, has the poorest prognosis.

21 Oct 2026

Cell Painting method reveals drug differences in 3D cancer cells

Researchers at Uppsala University have adapted Cell Painting, a widely used imaging method in drug discovery, to look at individual cells inside small 3D clusters of cancer cells.

21 Oct 2026

ECOG-ACRIN opens trial testing ivonescimab for aggressive bile duct cancer

The ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) announced today that it will open a randomized, registration-enabling phase 2/3 clinical trial to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy as first-line treatment for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC).

21 Oct 2026

Supercomputer helps design more reliable AI for breast cancer diagnosis

While AI offers the ability to improve human experts' ability to diagnose and treat diseases like breast cancer, well-publicized errors across the broader AI field are cause for concern.

21 Oct 2026

Oxaloacetate supplement may help reduce chemo brain in breast cancer survivors

A new study led by researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that a nutritional supplement containing oxaloacetate, a molecule naturally found in the body that helps cells produce energy, may help improve cognitive function and reduce the fatigue experienced by some breast cancer survivors following treatment.

21 Oct 2026

Combination approach slows osteosarcoma growth and prolongs survival in preclinical models

Scientists co-led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified a potential therapeutic vulnerability in some forms of osteosarcoma.

20 Oct 2026

CT scans reveal body composition changes preceding pancreatic cancer diagnosis

People who develop pancreatic cancer experience measurable changes in body composition years before diagnosis that differ from those seen in similar individuals without cancer, according to a Mayo Clinic study led by former Mayo Clinic research fellow, Aleksander Bogdanski and published in Pancreatology.

20 Oct 2026

Study identifies potential treatment target for aggressive lung tumors

A UTHealth Houston-led team has identified a promising new avenue to curb the growth and spread of tumors associated with hard-to-treat lung and other cancers.

20 Oct 2026

Rice, fish and pickles: Is the traditional Japanese diet as healthy as we think?

A systematic review of 37 studies found that greater adherence to predefined Japanese-style dietary patterns was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, based on pooled evidence from three cohort studies. However, health associations varied according to dietary composition, suggesting that traditional Japanese diet scores alone may not adequately distinguish the potential benefits and risks of different food combinations.

20 Oct 2026

Scientists found a link between Mediterranean diet blood markers and longer survival

Researchers found that a previously validated 67-metabolite blood signature of Mediterranean diet adherence was associated with lower long-term mortality across a Spanish trial population and three US cohorts. Participants with the highest signature scores had a 23% lower relative hazard of death than those with the lowest scores in both populations, although the findings do not establish a causal relationship.

20 Oct 2026

A 20-year study of 90,000 adults suggests the type of fish you eat matters

A Japanese study following 90,944 adults for an average of 20.8 years found that associations between seafood consumption and mortality varied by fish type and sex. Moderate seafood consumption was linked to lower overall mortality among women, while higher intake of omega-3-rich fish in women and unsalted seafood in men was associated with lower cerebrovascular disease mortality.

20 Oct 2026

Most frail breast cancer survivors lack Medicare home care

For the increasing number of women that survive breast cancer, many older, long-term survivors remain frail. A new study out today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that in a given year over half of these highly frail survivors had no Medicare home health care.

20 Oct 2026