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

Cancer Glossary

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

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

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

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

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

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

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Cancer Pain Management

Secondary Brain Cancer

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Management

Cancer History

Cancer Epidemiology

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

What is Immunochemotherapy?

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Diagnosis

Myc Mutations and Cancer

CDK9 and Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Cancer Pathophysiology

Secondary Lung Cancer

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

What is Cancer?

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Classification

What is Tumorigenesis?

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Prognosis

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Insights into Oncofertility

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Research

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

What Causes Cancer?

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Cancer Symptoms

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Latest Cancer News and Research

MIT biologists discover cellular pathway that triggers colon cancer spread

Most colon cancer deaths are caused by the spread of tumor cells beyond the colon, usually to the liver. In a new study, MIT biologists identified a cellular pathway necessary for colorectal cancer metastasis.

24 Sep 2026

Multi-million dollar grants aim to advance hairy cell leukemia research

The Hairy Cell Leukemia Foundation and Blood Cancer United®, formerly The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, today announced six new research grants as part of their ongoing strategic partnership to better understand what drives hairy cell leukemia and find better therapies on the road to cures for this rare form of blood cancer.

24 Sep 2026

EGFR co-targeting and nanotechnology offer new triple-negative breast cancer therapies

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains one of the most challenging forms of breast cancer to treat because it lacks the estrogen, progesterone and HER2 receptors that enable targeted treatment in other breast cancer subtypes.

24 Sep 2026

Protein modification network plays vital role in cancer development

A review published in Genes & Diseases highlights the complex interplay between protein arginine methylation and ubiquitination, two forms of protein modification that can profoundly influence cancer development, progression and treatment response.

24 Sep 2026

Review highlights how altered metabolism drives kidney cancer growth

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the most common subtype of kidney cancer, is increasingly understood as a malignancy shaped by profound changes in cellular metabolism.

24 Sep 2026

MIT researchers build cell collection device for early cancer detection

One of the main reasons that ovarian cancer is among the deadliest forms of cancer is timing: When doctors catch it early, the five-year survival rate can be north of 90 percent.

24 Sep 2026

Multiple immunosuppressive therapies increase infection risks for cancer patients

Retrospective analysis of more than 20,000 patient records identifies opportunities for risk-mitigating approaches in certain patient populations.

24 Sep 2026

Review explores biological strategies of organisms with exceptional longevity

A new review was published in Volume 18 of Aging on September 8, 2026, titled "How to live for centuries: common denominators of organisms with exceptional longevity."

24 Sep 2026

Five research teams secure funding for frontotemporal dementia studies

The Kissick Family Foundation, in partnership with the Milken Institute Science Philanthropy's Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC), today announced five research teams selected to receive a total of $2.5 million through the third funding cycle of the Kissick Family Foundation Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) Grant Program.

24 Sep 2026

New multimodal AI model improves breast cancer screening accuracy

Breast cancer screening must balance diagnostic accuracy with workflow throughput. DM remains the traditional cornerstone, but its two-dimensional projection creates tissue-overlap noise, particularly in dense breasts, leading to false positives and obscured lesions.

24 Sep 2026

New trial aims to evaluate chemotherapy benefit for ER+/HER2- breast cancer patients

The addition of CDK4/6 inhibitors to endocrine therapy has changed the standard of care for patients with high-risk early-stage estrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative (ER+/HER2-) breast cancer by reducing the risk of recurrence.

24 Sep 2026

Lund University gets $19.4 million grant for Alzheimer’s blood test

Alzheimer’s researcher Sebastian Palmqvist has been awarded USD 19.4 million (SEK 190 million) from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Institute on Aging (NIA).

24 Sep 2026

Less is more: Exercise rivals common pain meds

From osteoarthritis to a splitting migraine, when you’re experiencing pain, exercise can seem like the last thing you want or think you should do. But according to new Adelaide University research it could be one of the most effective ways to help ease your symptoms.

24 Sep 2026

Engineered nanoparticles sensitize gliomas to radiotherapy

Gliomas are a major cause of cancer-related deaths in younger adults.

24 Sep 2026

GLP-1 drugs may influence chronic pain through gut-brain and immune pathways

Researchers reviewed evidence linking GLP-1 and GLP-1 receptor agonists to chronic pain modulation through gut microbial, neuroimmune, vagal, and metabolic pathways, with the strongest clinical evidence currently involving knee osteoarthritis and idiopathic intracranial hypertension headache. Much of the proposed biology remains supported by preclinical research, and human studies have yet to establish that GLP-1RA-induced changes in the gut microbiome directly cause pain relief.

24 Sep 2026

Breath test shows promise for identifying cancerous lung nodules

The human breath could help identify cancerous lung nodules negating the need for invasive testing.

23 Sep 2026

Study finds oral hormone replacement therapy increases venous thromboembolism risk

Current use of oral menopausal hormone therapy (commonly known as hormone replacement therapy or HRT) is associated with an increased risk of blood clots in legs / lungs regardless of dose or treatment duration, finds a large Danish study published by The BMJ today.

23 Sep 2026

Early treatment may improve outcomes in Shwachman-Diamond syndrome

More than 90% of children born with the rare bone marrow condition called Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome (SDS) survive beyond age 20. But fewer than 30% live beyond age 50.

23 Sep 2026

Nearly 60% of hypertension cases remain undetected in England

Researchers from Oxford Population Health analyzed clinic blood pressure measurements collected by Our Future Health, the UK's largest health research programme, from participants who enrolled between 2022 and 2025.

23 Sep 2026

Exercise offers broad pain relief across acute and chronic conditions

From osteoarthritis to a splitting migraine, when you're experiencing pain, exercise can seem like the last thing you want or think you should do. But according to new Adelaide University research it could be one of the most effective ways to help ease your symptoms.

23 Sep 2026