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.

What is Cancer?

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Glossary

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

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Prognosis

Cancer Research

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

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CDK9 and Cancer

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Classification

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

Secondary Brain Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer History

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Cancer Diagnosis

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

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Living with Cancer Pain

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Pain

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Epidemiology

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Myc Mutations and Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Insights into Oncofertility

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Cancer Symptoms

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer Management

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

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

Cancer Pathophysiology

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Latest Cancer News and Research

Study maps rising lifetime risk of digestive cancers in China

The global landscape of oncology is shifting, and nowhere is this transition more complex or consequential than in China.

24 Aug 2026

Targeting cyclin-dependent kinases offers new pathways for cancer therapy

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Germany. In the search for new therapeutic approaches that target the uncontrolled growth of tumor cells, a class of enzymes known as cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) has come into focus.

24 Aug 2026

Study confirms benefits of robotic gastric cancer surgery

Surgery remains the primary curative treatment for gastric cancer, with laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) established as a standard minimally invasive approach.

24 Aug 2026

Review outlines key strategies to reduce gynecologic cancer-related mortality

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear a disproportionate burden of gynecologic malignancies-cancers of the cervix, endometrium, ovary, vagina, and vulva.

24 Aug 2026

A striking immune cell pattern emerges around a person’s 100th birthday

Single-cell immune profiling found that CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocytes become more abundant around age 100, showing stepwise differentiation and substantial clonal expansion. Ex vivo experiments also revealed cytokine plasticity within individual clones, supporting the hypothesis that these cells adapt to persistent antigens during healthy aging, although their direct role in longevity remains unproven.

23 Aug 2026

New AI model reveals hidden code behind gene activation

Precise activation of tens of thousands of genes is critical for healthy development and growth. Specialized segments of our DNA are responsible for carefully orchestrating genetic sequences that result in the production of enzymes, hormones, proteins and other crucial components underlying cell structure and function.

21 Aug 2026

FDA clears innovative blood test for earlier Alzheimer's diagnosis

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing an innovative blood test with underlying technology invented at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

21 Aug 2026

Only 15% of eligible American adults discuss lung cancer screening with their doctors

Lung cancer screenings can save lives by detecting cancer in its early stages, but only 15% of eligible American adults have discussed the screening with their doctors, according to data analysis performed by University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers.

21 Aug 2026

Neurogenesis stalls in the brains of adults with major depressive disorder, study shows

Most of our brain's 100 billion neurons are created before we're born, but the trickle of neurons created in the adult brain hippocampus could be instrumental in preventing depression, suggest findings from a new study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

21 Aug 2026

Australian researchers uncover a promising new way to tackle triple-negative breast cancer

Australian researchers have uncovered a promising new way to tackle one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, raising hopes for more effective treatments to stop the disease from spreading.

21 Aug 2026

Younger mismatched donors offer new hope for blood cancer patients

Blood cancer patients who cannot find a closely matched stem cell donor may have more transplant options than previously thought.

21 Aug 2026

KAIST research opens new path toward releasing 'molecular lock' and reversing cell's fate

Once a cell has locked into an abnormal state — the way cancer cells do — can it ever be restored back to normal? A KAIST research team has identified the 'molecular lock' that keeps cells trapped in an altered state, opening a new path toward releasing that lock and reversing a cell's fate.

21 Aug 2026

Multifunctional nanoplatform addresses three key barriers to effective TNBC immunotherapy

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant subtypes of breast cancer, accounting for 15-20% of all cases.

21 Aug 2026

Bonsai software visualizes complex biological data as branching trees

Modern biology research can now generate valuable data on an unprecedented scale. But there is one major obstacle: making sense of these complex high-dimensional datasets.

21 Aug 2026

Antibodies for visualizing cell identity and tumor architecture

Whether you are characterizing cell state transitions, assessing organelle integrity, or building a multiplex immunofluorescence (IF) assay, you need reliable structural markers for your imaging.

From Antibodies Incorporated 21 Aug 2026

Scientists identify molecule driving one of the deadliest forms of breast cancer

Australian researchers have uncovered a promising new way to tackle one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, raising hopes for more effective treatments to stop the disease from spreading.

21 Aug 2026

Younger lung cancer patients show more targetable gene alterations

Younger adults with non-small cell lung cancer are significantly more likely than older patients to have genetic alterations that can be matched with targeted therapies, according to a large international study led in part by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

21 Aug 2026

Cryo-EM provides real-time glimpse of cellular machinery reading DNA inside living organisms

All living things have a fleet of tiny copy machines that turn instructions from DNA into RNA, the molecules responsible for helping build proteins that keep organisms alive.

20 Aug 2026

Scientists uncover safer way to tame cancer cell senescence

Stopping tumor growth is only half the battle. Rather than kill tumor cells, many cancer therapies can only push them into cellular senescence, a state in which cells stop dividing but do not die. These "undead" cells will continue to release signals that reshape the tumor environment.

20 Aug 2026

Glioma microenvironment emerges as key target for future therapies

The prognosis for glioma patients remains extremely poor despite aggressive multimodal standard therapy: maximal safe resection, radiotherapy, and temozolomide chemotherapy, with median survival rarely exceeding 15 to 18 months.

20 Aug 2026