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.

Targeted Cancer Therapies

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

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Pathophysiology

CDK9 and Cancer

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

What is Immunochemotherapy?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

What is Tumorigenesis?

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Secondary Brain Cancer

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer History

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

What is Cancer?

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Insights into Oncofertility

Secondary Lung Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Symptoms

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Diagnosis

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Management

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Glossary

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

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Research

Cancer Epidemiology

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer Prognosis

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Pain Management

Cancer Classification

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Pain

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Latest Cancer News and Research

Clinical trial challenges long held beliefs about treating brittle bone disease

Increasing bone density in patients with a rare genetic condition that causes bones to break easily does not prevent fractures, a large clinical trial has found.

14 May 2026

Scientists identify methylphenidate as an effective tool for combating chronic cancer related fatigue

A new meta-analysis in the May 2026 issue of JNCCN-Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network provides updated evidence that methylphenidate-type psychostimulants-a class of medication that increases dopamine and norepinephrine availability in the brain-can provide meaningful relief for cancer-related fatigue.

14 May 2026

Scientists develop a superior diagnostic tool to spot hidden gene fusions in pediatric cancer

Researchers have introduced a novel diagnostic method that can more sensitively detect gene fusions in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the most common type of pediatric cancer, compared to other publicly available fusion detection algorithms.

14 May 2026

New research maps the biological toll of drinking

A new review published in the journal Addiction confirms drinking causes substantial harm to health. Some of those harms may be reversible if the person reduces or stops drinking.

14 May 2026

New imaging technique maps 38000 liver cells to solve fibrosis

The liver is often called a "silent organ," as it can sustain significant damage without obvious symptoms. But when injury is prolonged, whether from alcohol, poor diet, or chronic hepatitis virus infection, it triggers fibrosis: a progressive hardening and scarring of liver tissue.

14 May 2026

Turning the flu virus into a powerful tool to fight cancer

A recent Views & Comments article published in Engineering highlights advances in repurposing influenza viruses as flexible therapeutic platforms for infectious diseases and cancer, driven by progress in reverse genetics and viral vector engineering.

14 May 2026

Regular arts and physical activity linked to slower aging

Research shows that leisure activities, including arts engagement and physical exercise, are linked to slower epigenetic aging and improved health outcomes.

14 May 2026

Four OICR-funded studies explore transformative approaches in cancer care

Four new research studies funded by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) will deliver cutting-edge innovations by maximizing the impact of existing research and making the most out of patient contributions.

13 May 2026

Gene panel predicts chemotherapy response in triple-negative breast cancer

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have characterized cancer cell-specific features in the tumor microenvironment (TME) of early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) tissues, identifying specific macrophage subtypes associated with chemotherapy response.

13 May 2026

Next-generation cancer therapy shows early promise as treatment candidate for glioblastoma

A next-generation cancer therapy being developed at McMaster University has shown early promise as a treatment candidate for glioblastoma, the most aggressive and most common type of primary brain cancer in adults.

13 May 2026

Semaglutide significantly reduces obesity in treatment-resistant young adults

A weekly dose of semaglutide (2.4 mg) leads to a clinically significant reduction in body mass index (BMI) and related health outcomes in young adults with severe obesity who are treatment resistant following hospital-based non-pharmacological obesity care during childhood, according to a randomized controlled trial being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May).

13 May 2026

Adult weight gain strongly linked to higher obesity-related cancer risk

New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May) shows that people who gain the highest amount of weight across adulthood are at greatly increased risk of certain obesity related cancers.

13 May 2026

New drug carrier improves cancer treatment by anchoring to tumors

Medications are designed to treat diseased tissues while sparing healthy ones, often by attaching the drug to something that helps guide it directly to its target. But drugs also need time to work, which means they need to stay near the diseased tissues long enough.

13 May 2026

New mRNA adjuvant dramatically boosts T-cell vaccine responses in mice

MIT engineers have developed a new way to amplify the T-cell response to mRNA vaccines - an advance that could lead to much more powerful cancer vaccines and stronger protection against infectious diseases.

13 May 2026

Medical imaging could improve precision diagnosis of aggressive head and neck tumors

Medical imaging routinely used in cancer care may hold far more biological information than previously thought.

13 May 2026

Immune-regulating molecule may offer new treatment approach for IBD patients

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified an immune-regulating molecule that may help explain why some patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, do not respond to commonly used therapies.

13 May 2026

Fine particle pollution may quietly damage brain function over time

The air pollution we breathe daily could be harming more than just our lungs and hearts. New research from McMaster University suggests that fine particles from traffic, industry and wildfire smoke is linked to worse cognitive function.

13 May 2026

Adding GLP-1 drugs to behavioral interventions silences food noise

New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey, shows that use of obesity drugs alongside behavioral interventions leads to a larger drop in so called 'food noise' than in those using the behavioral therapy alone.

13 May 2026

Targeted ultrasound stimulation alters brain processing to reduce chronic pain

Using ultrasound to stimulate a specific part of the brain could offer a non-invasive therapy that benefits those experiencing chronic pain, a new study has suggested.

13 May 2026

Study explains how APOE2 gene protects the brain against Alzheimer's disease

People who carry the APOE2 version of the apolipoprotein E gene are more likely to live to advanced age and are partly protected against Alzheimer's disease, but scientists have struggled to explain why.

13 May 2026