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 Prognosis

Cancer Glossary

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Secondary Lung Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

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Secondary Brain Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Living with Cancer Pain

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

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

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

What is Cancer?

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer History

CDK9 and Cancer

What is Immunochemotherapy?

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Management

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Pain

Cancer Classification

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Pediatric Cancer

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Research

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Epidemiology

Targeted Cancer Therapies

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

Insights into Oncofertility

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Pathophysiology

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

What Causes Cancer?

Latest Cancer News and Research

Study: Women survive cancer more but face higher treatment toxicity

Women are more likely to survive cancer than men but face a higher risk of serious and adverse side effects from treatment, according to a landmark international study from Adelaide University.

17 Mar 2026

Modified lipid nanoparticles boost mRNA vaccines while reducing side effects

The most common side effects of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot are well known: soreness, mild fever and general malaise.

17 Mar 2026

Automated system boosts maternal smoking cessation in pediatric care

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that a new automated tobacco treatment system integrated into routine pediatric care helped drive a 3.9% absolute increase in smoking cessation among mothers – a population-level impact that could translate to tens of thousands of parents quitting each year and protect hundreds of thousands of children from harmful secondhand smoke exposure.

17 Mar 2026

Reducing lung cell lipid production decreases metastatic tumor spread

Scientists from the VIB–KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, in collaboration with the Francis Crick Institute, have discovered how cancer cells can exploit healthy lung cells to support metastatic tumor growth in the lungs.

17 Mar 2026

Lysosomal storage of drugs may influence cancer treatment outcomes

One of oncology's biggest challenges is that the same treatment can work well for some patients but fail completely in others.

17 Mar 2026

Study reveals new dual role of ezrin in osteosarcoma

Scientists at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered a new dual function for a well-known cancer-related protein called ezrin.

17 Mar 2026

Engineered bacteria may improve precision cancer drug delivery

Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer globally; however, current treatments are limited by disease complexity.

17 Mar 2026

Implantable device boosts immune cells to fight cancer effectively

Immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment by harnessing the body's own immune system to fight disease.

17 Mar 2026

Blocking fructose metabolism may improve brain tumor immunotherapy response

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that specialized immune cells within the glioblastoma tumor metabolize fructose to suppress immune responses and promote tumor growth, reports a study published on March 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

17 Mar 2026

Wastewater detection of cancer marker may aid early diagnosis

Detection of a bowel cancer marker (CDH1) in wastewater may offer a new community level early warning system for the disease, suggests a proof of concept study published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

17 Mar 2026

How one antibiotic dose can reshape your gut microbiome for years

Long-term registry-linked analysis of nearly 15,000 adults shows that antibiotic use is associated with persistent changes in gut microbiome diversity and composition for up to 4–8 years. These effects vary by antibiotic class, with clindamycin, fluoroquinolones, and flucloxacillin showing the strongest and most sustained associations.

17 Mar 2026

Yogurt, cheese, and chocolate consumption is tied to reduced mortality risk, researchers report

A large meta-analysis of 50 cohort studies involving over three million adults found that higher consumption of certain fermented foods is associated with lower risks of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Fermented milk products also showed inverse associations with cancer mortality, while other foods like miso and bread showed no consistent effects.

17 Mar 2026

New CAR-T cell therapy shows promise for treating osteosarcoma

Finding an effective treatment for osteosarcoma, the most common type of bone cancer in children and young adults, has puzzled medical researchers for 40 years.

17 Mar 2026

MGI Tech and Predica Diagnostics accelerate cervical cancer screening on DNBSEQ platforms

Achieving a major milestone, MGI and Predica Diagnostics enhance cervical cancer diagnostics with rapid, scalable HPV testing on advanced sequencing platforms.

From MGI 17 Mar 2026

Exercise cuts 'chemo brain' and fatigue in cancer patients

Implementing a simple exercise plan during chemotherapy may ease cognitive impairment and fatigue, promoting better health outcomes for cancer patients.

17 Mar 2026

Study reveals dual role of PFK enzyme in metabolism and cell cycle progression

A metabolic enzyme studied for over seven decades has a hidden second function - it can unwind RNA and promote cell cycle progression, an additional function beyond its role in energy production, according to a new study led by the University of Surrey.

16 Mar 2026

Computational model predicts telomere length from biopsy images

A new computational tool infers changes occurring at the ends of the chromosomes housing our DNA. It does so by detecting structural alterations in cells and tissues captured in images taken of routine medical biopsies, according to findings published March 16, 2026, in Cell Reports Methods.

16 Mar 2026