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.

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Management

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

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CDK9 and Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer Epidemiology

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer Research

Cancer Glossary

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cancer Pain

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Targeted Cancer Therapies

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Prognosis

What is Cancer?

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Pediatric Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Insights into Oncofertility

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer History

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer Pathophysiology

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Living with Cancer Pain

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Diagnosis

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

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Classification

What is Immunochemotherapy?

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

Cancer Pain Management

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

What Causes Cancer?

Latest Cancer News and Research

SLAMF6 discovery offers hope for non-responding cancer patients

Cancer researchers working on immunotherapies have made a big discovery: SLAMF6, a molecule on the surface of immune cells that prevents T cells from effectively attacking tumors – and, in mice, they've found a way to neutralize it.

12 Feb 2026

Louisville found PFAS in drinking water. The Trump administration wouldn’t require any action.

Every day, the Ohio River sends billions of gallons of water flowing past Louisville's pumping station, where the Kentucky city's utility sucks it up to turn it into tap water.

12 Feb 2026

Nanovaccine design boosts immune attack on HPV tumors

Throughout the past decade, Northwestern University scientists have uncovered a striking principle of vaccine design: Performance depends not only on vaccine components but also on vaccine structure.

11 Feb 2026

New roadmap integrates aging into Parkinson disease models

Even though aging is the largest risk factor for Parkinson's disease, the majority of research aimed at taming the able neurodegenerativeincur motor disease has largely left aging out of the mix.

11 Feb 2026

Trial highlights promising frontline therapy for blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm

Seventy-five percent of patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) who were treated with the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) pivekimab sunirine (PVEK) had a complete response, according to new data from the Phase I/II multicenter international CADENZA trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

11 Feb 2026

Study uncovers immune trigger behind vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis

A global research collaboration of scientists from McMaster University (Canada), Flinders University (Australia) and Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (Germany) uncovered why a small number of people developed dangerous blood clots after either receiving certain COVID‑19 vaccines or experiencing a natural adenovirus infection, and the answer lies in an unexpected case of misdirected targeting by the immune system.

11 Feb 2026

Nurses provide hospital care as safely as doctors

Nurses can safely deliver many services traditionally performed by doctors, with little to no difference in deaths, safety events, or how patients felt about their health, according to a new Cochrane review.

11 Feb 2026

Alzheimer’s plaques decline after CAR-T immune cell treatment in preclinical study

Researchers engineered CD4+ chimeric antigen receptor T cells targeting fibrillar amyloid beta and tested them in a mouse Alzheimer model. The preclinical study showed reduced amyloid pathology and altered neuroimmune responses, supporting CAR-T immunotherapy as a potential future Alzheimer strategy.

11 Feb 2026

Rural cancer patients benefit from local surgical care

Adults living in rural communities often travel long distances when seeking treatment for cancer, but distant travel may not always be necessary to receive high-quality surgical care, according to a new analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS).

11 Feb 2026

Tiny organism offers insight into neurological side effects of chemotherapy

Chemotherapy remains one of the most powerful tools in the fight against cancer, yet it often comes with significant long-term side effects that can dramatically affect patients' quality of life.

11 Feb 2026

New strategy harnesses pre-existing antiviral immunity to boost anti-tumor responses

Because many different types of cancer cells overexpress programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), this cell surface protein is a major target of cancer immunotherapy.

11 Feb 2026

Prior abortion or miscarriage not linked to increased risk of pre- or postmenopausal breast cancer

A prior abortion or miscarriage was not linked with an increased risk of developing pre- or postmenopausal breast cancer in a study published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.

11 Feb 2026

DNA barcoding can be used to track cancer cells in solid and liquid biopsies

Australian scientists have discovered that DNA barcoding can be used to track cancer cells in solid and liquid biopsies, empowering future research into more reliable breast cancer diagnosis and treatment strategies.

11 Feb 2026

Transcription factor HOXD13 drives melanoma growth and immune evasion

A molecule that helps regulate gene activity has also been shown to drive skin cancer growth and tumors' ability to evade attack by the body's immune system, a new study shows.

11 Feb 2026

Smokefree generation law could slash youth smoking decades earlier

New research, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that smoking prevalence among 12 to 30-year-olds in England could drop below 5% decades earlier than expected, if the government progressively raises the age of tobacco sale.

11 Feb 2026

End of enhanced Obamacare subsidies puts tribal health lifeline at risk

Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years to get help for severe stomach pain through the limited health services available near her home on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana.

11 Feb 2026

One in five US women prefer at-home HPV screening

National data shows women who experience healthcare discrimination favor at-home HPV testing, raising questions about trust and access in screening guidelines.

11 Feb 2026

Review links betel nut addiction to cancer, heart disease, and metabolic risks

This review examines the epidemiology, health risks, neurobiological mechanisms, and emerging treatments related to betel nut addiction worldwide. It highlights strong links with oral cancer, cardiometabolic disease, and addiction pathways while noting limited established therapies and the need for coordinated public health strategies.

11 Feb 2026

Global report highlights inequities in pediatric palliative care

Nearly all the world's 10.6 million children experiencing serious health-related suffering (SHS) live in low- and middle-income countries with little to no access to palliative care specialized care for their illness, according to a comprehensive new report published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

10 Feb 2026