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 Glossary

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

CDK9 and Cancer

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

What Causes Cancer?

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Management

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

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The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Prognosis

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Pain

Cancer Classification

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Secondary Brain Cancer

Targeted Cancer Therapies

What is Cancer?

What is Tumorigenesis?

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer Pathophysiology

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Cancer Research

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Insights into Oncofertility

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

Cancer History

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Secondary Lung Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer Pain Management

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Living with Cancer Pain

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Pediatric Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Epidemiology

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Cancer Symptoms

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Myc Mutations and Cancer

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

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

Latest Cancer News and Research

Researchers use mitochondrial uncouplers to target breast cancer metastasis

Mitochondrial serine catabolic pathway (MSCP), also called serine, glycine, and one-carbon metabolism, is essential for cancer cells to produce amino acids, one-carbon units, and reducing equivalents.

19 Oct 2026

Blood pressure drug losartan boosts metabolism by stimulating brown fat

Losartan, a drug commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, boosts brown adipose tissue or "brown fat" activity and enhances its metabolism, according to a preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine, Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers.

19 Oct 2026

UCL study reveals broad mortality risks faced by ADHD individuals

For the study, published in JAMA Network Open, the researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 studies that included data from close to 16 million study participants on three continents.

19 Oct 2026

MUSC study reveals gender shift in adolescent vaping trends

For decades, boys and men were more likely than their female peers to use nicotine. But a new study from MUSC shows that among U.S. adolescents, that pattern has reversed for vaping.

19 Oct 2026

Lack of primary care increases early breast cancer death risk

People who are marginalized or lack access to a primary care provider are at greater risk of early death from newly diagnosed (de novo) metastatic breast cancer, according to research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.260156.

19 Oct 2026

Miro1 protein linked to insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes

A protein called Miro1 found at elevated levels in the skeletal muscle of people with Type 2 diabetes may contribute to insulin resistance, potentially making it a target for future treatments that help the body regulate blood sugar, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

19 Oct 2026

First patient dosed in Phase 1 clinical trial of new cancer drug

On August 18, 2026, in Japan, the Department of New Experimental Therapeutics and Early-Phase 1 Drug Development Service at Kansai Medical University Hospital, led by Professor Toshio SHIMIZU, administered DS1025 to the first patient worldwide as part of a global, multicenter First-in-Human Phase 1 clinical trial sponsored by Daiichi Sankyo.

19 Oct 2026

Preoperative physical activity linked to lower delirium risk after surgery

Staying active before surgery may do more than strengthen the body for recovery - it may protect the brain.

19 Oct 2026

Menopause isn't the end of the story for the ovaries

Research reveals that postmenopausal ovaries remain active, showing molecular remodeling linked to inflammation and potential implications for women's health.

19 Oct 2026

Invisible no more: New treatment avenue unlocked for deadliest lung cancer

Researchers have uncovered a previously overlooked immune cell that can recognize and kill small cell lung cancer, the most aggressive form of the disease globally.

16 Oct 2026

invIOs publishes positive clinical data on CBL-B-silenced autologous cell therapy APN401 in peer-reviewed journal

invIOs GmbH (“invIOs”), a privately held biotechnology company developing innovative cancer immunotherapies, today announced the publication of new clinical data with its autologous PBMC (peripheral blood mononuclear cell) therapy APN401 in the peer-reviewed journal, Molecular Therapy Oncology.

16 Oct 2026

Bisphenol mixtures alter breast tissue development in lab-grown human models

Exposure to common chemicals may alter how normal human breast tissue develops, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Boston University

15 Oct 2026

New study could help reduce radiation exposure during cardiac CT scans

A new study at The University of Texas at Arlington could help substantially reduce the amount of radiation heart patients receive during imaging procedures without sacrificing diagnostic accuracy.

15 Oct 2026

AI study of 101,000 patients links brown fat to heart and mental health

In a retrospective analysis of PET-CT records from 101,243 patients, researchers found that detectable brown fat was associated with lower prevalence of cardiometabolic and psychiatric conditions, while greater activity, particularly in the axillary region, was linked to more favourable metabolic outcomes. Medication screening identified losartan, which increased brown fat thermogenic activity in laboratory experiments and energy expenditure in mice, although its effects on human brown fat remain unproven.

15 Oct 2026