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.

CDK9 and Cancer

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Pain

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer Classification

What is Cancer?

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Management

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What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Glossary

Cancer Epidemiology

Cancer Pain Management

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

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

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Secondary Lung Cancer

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer History

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

What is Tumorigenesis?

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

What Causes Cancer?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

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

Cancer Prognosis

Pediatric Cancer

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Insights into Oncofertility

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Living with Cancer Pain

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Research

Cancer Symptoms

Latest Cancer News and Research

Sjöberg Prize awarded to British scientist for pioneering tumor evolution research

This year's Sjöberg Prize of one million US dollars is awarded to a British cancer researcher who has provided fundamental knowledge about evolution in tumors.

12 Feb 2026

New strategy may improve ovarian cancer treatment outcomes

A new study published by Mayo Clinic researchers suggests that ovarian cancer cells quickly activate a survival response after PARP inhibitor treatment, and blocking this early response may make this class of drugs work better.

12 Feb 2026

ASH releases new guidelines for treating leukemia in adolescents and young adults

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) released guidelines on frontline management of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in adolescents and young adults (AYAs), as well as the management of relapsed or refractory disease in this population.

12 Feb 2026

Case report examines potential cancer risks after mRNA vaccination

A new case report was published in Volume 17 of Oncotarget on February 6, 2026, titled "Exploring the potential link between mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations and cancer: A case report with a review of haematopoietic malignancies with insights into pathogenic mechanisms."

12 Feb 2026

Rising lung cancer in never smokers demands urgent research focus

Lung cancer patients who have never smoked make up a significant and growing share of global lung cancer cases, yet remain an understudied group, according to a new review written by UCL (University College London) researchers.

12 Feb 2026

Novel DAMP markers advance myocardial contusion detection

Researchers are exploring a new generation of biochemical markers that may help clinicians detect myocardial contusion. A frequently overlooked form of heart injury caused by blunt chest trauma, earlier and more accurately.

12 Feb 2026

Human insight and AI advance prostate cancer treatment

Today, many men must choose between life-altering prostate removal or careful long-term monitoring. The EU-funded ROBIOSPY Project offers an intermediate option: precise needle-based diagnostics and targeted therapy powered by AI-driven robotics.

12 Feb 2026

Groundbreaking methods identify aggressive prostate cancer

The research lays a foundation for the possibility that aggressive prostate cancer can probably be detected through a few drops of semen or blood in the long term.

12 Feb 2026

Light-based sensor can detect low concentrations of cancer biomarkers in the blood

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive light-based sensor that can detect extremely low concentrations of cancer biomarkers in the blood.

12 Feb 2026

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