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.

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer plasticity allows tumor cells to change their identity, evade therapies, and adapt to environmental pressures, contributing to treatment resistance and metastasis. New research is targeting this adaptability through epigenetic drugs, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and strategies to limit phenotypic switching.

Cancer Glossary

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer Pathophysiology

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Pain

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

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

Cancer Prognosis

What is Tumorigenesis?

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What is Cancer?

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Classification

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Myc Mutations and Cancer

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

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

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Secondary Brain Cancer

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Epidemiology

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Symptoms

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Cancer Management

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Pain Management

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer History

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer Research

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

CDK9 and Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Pediatric Cancer

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Diagnosis

Insights into Oncofertility

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Latest Cancer News and Research

Undergraduate researcher uncovers molecular secrets of HPV’s cancer-causing mechanisms

When Sean Fletcher walked into Sam Biswas' Medical and Molecular Sciences (MMSC) lab at the University of Delaware College of Health Sciences during the summer of his first year, he had no research or laboratory experience.

31 Oct 2025

Lactate and lactylation drive metabolic, epigenetic reprogramming in gynecological cancers

Lactate, once considered a metabolic waste product, is now recognized as a key regulator of cellular homeostasis and disease progression.

31 Oct 2025

Study reveals how melanoma evolves to resist immunotherapy

A study led by UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators reveals how melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, evolves to resist immunotherapy and identifies a potential strategy to prevent or reverse that resistance.

31 Oct 2025

Improving tobacco cessation care for people living with HIV

People living with HIV who smoke are currently more likely to die from lung cancer than from HIV-related causes. Two cancer control researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina's Hollings Cancer Center are setting out to change that.

31 Oct 2025

Obesity treatment in the UK could become a "two-tier system", experts warn

Treatment for obesity in the UK could become a "two-tier system" where the most vulnerable patients miss out altogether.

31 Oct 2025

Studies identify complementary approaches to overcome drug resistance in KRAS G12C–mutant lung cancer

Two companion studies published in Cancer Research from scientists at Moffitt Cancer Center identify distinct but complementary approaches to overcoming drug resistance in KRAS G12C–mutant non-small cell lung cancer.

31 Oct 2025

Proimmune Ltd introduces Prove® SL Self-Loading MHC Class I Monomers to improve T cell research flexibility

ProImmune Ltd, a global leader in life science reagents and services, today announced the launch of its new ProVE® SL Self-Loading MHC Class I Monomers.

31 Oct 2025

Novel nanoparticles can deliver an immune-stimulating molecule directly to ovarian tumors

Cancer immunotherapy, which uses drugs that stimulate the body's immune cells to attack tumors, is a promising approach to treating many types of cancer. However, it doesn't work well for some tumors, including ovarian cancer.

31 Oct 2025

Better treatments buoy multiple-myeloma patients, bound by research cuts and racial disparities

For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination.

31 Oct 2025

At the hollow in Florida, the ‘medical freedom’ movement finds its base camp

MAGA and MAHA are happily married in Florida, and nowhere more at home than in Sarasota County, where on a humid October night a crowd of several hundred gathered to honor state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, his wife, and an unlicensed Canadian radiologist who treats cancer with horse paste.

31 Oct 2025

Bowhead whale’s secret to long life revealed: precision DNA repair may hold clues for human aging

Researchers discovered that bowhead whales achieve extraordinary longevity and cancer resistance through highly efficient and precise DNA repair mechanisms. A whale-specific protein, CIRBP, enhances genome stability even in human cells, revealing a potential pathway to strengthen DNA repair and slow aging.

30 Oct 2025

Study confirms PSA screening improves survival and safety

After 23 years of follow-up, the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) confirmed a 13% lower prostate cancer mortality with PSA testing and an improved harm–benefit ratio over time. Risk-based screening could sustain mortality gains while reducing overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment.

30 Oct 2025

Researchers uncover mechanism by which BRCA2-deficient tumors develop chemoresistance

One of the biggest challenges in cancer treatment is chemoresistance: tumors that initially respond well to chemotherapy become resistant over time. When that happens, treatment options are often limited.

30 Oct 2025

Study uncovers neural mechanisms behind memory stabilization

Newly decoded brain circuits make memories more stable as part of learning, according to a new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers.

30 Oct 2025

First-of-its-kind resource created to identify people with genetic risk for elevated 'bad' cholesterol

An international team led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientist has created a first-of-its-kind resource to identify those with a genetic risk for elevated 'bad' cholesterol -- a major contributor to heart disease.

30 Oct 2025

19 NCAA women's college basketball coaches join hands to support women’s heart health

Both on the court and off, cardiovascular disease is the leading killer of women in the United States, taking the lives of more than 440,000 women each year, according to the American Heart Association, a relentless force changing the future of health for everyone everywhere.

30 Oct 2025

New method yields up to twice as many therapeutic myogenic cells as previous protocols

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation.

30 Oct 2025

Thiostrepton suppresses rhabdomyosarcoma progression by targeting the PI3K–AKT pathway

Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) accounts for up to 10% of childhood cancers and nearly half of pediatric soft tissue sarcomas.

30 Oct 2025

Intraoperative radiation reduces the recurrence rate of pancreatic cancer

Using targeted radiation during surgery - referred to as intraoperative radiation - to eliminate pancreatic cancer cells that have spread to areas around the pancreas, investigators at Johns Hopkins have been able to reduce the recurrence rate around the pancreas to 5%.

30 Oct 2025

Unusual presentation of vulvar mucinous cyst with multiple bartholin cysts in a reproductive-age woman

A new case report was published in Volume 12 of Oncoscience on October 9, 2025, titled "Vulvar mucinous cyst mimicking common lesions with concurrent multiple bartholin cysts in a reproductive-age woman: A rare case report and review of literature."

30 Oct 2025