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 Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Cancer Pain Management

Insights into Oncofertility

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

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

What Causes Cancer?

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How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Secondary Brain Cancer

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Management

Cancer Pain

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

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Glossary

Cancer History

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

What is Tumorigenesis?

Pediatric Cancer

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What is Cancer?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

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

Cancer Epidemiology

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Classification

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer Research

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Prognosis

Cancer Symptoms

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

CDK9 and Cancer

Cancer Pathophysiology

Latest Cancer News and Research

New tool detects hidden biases in medical training data

Researchers have built a tool to uncover hidden issues in the massive datasets used to train medical AI.

20 Jul 2026

New study redefines high risk criteria for multiple myeloma

Researchers have found that with new treatments for multiple myeloma, a serious type of blood cancer, clinicians should use different criteria for identifying patients with poor odds of survival.

20 Jul 2026

Filtered coffee links to slower biological aging while instant coffee shows the opposite

Filtered coffee consumption was associated with slower biological aging, while instant coffee was linked to faster aging in UK Biobank participants. The cross-sectional findings do not prove causation, but they suggest that brewing method may influence coffee’s relationship with aging biomarkers.

20 Jul 2026

Infectious disease expert explains who faces the highest risk from cyclosporiasis

People across the United States are taking a closer look at their lettuce and leafy greens this summer thanks to an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal illness that causes several symptoms, the most notable being severe, watery diarrhea.

19 Jul 2026

KAIST study opens a new avenue for treating intractable brain tumors

Researchers have uncovered a clue to why immune checkpoint inhibitors-cancer therapies that release the immune "brakes" exploited by tumors to evade attack-show limited efficacy in some brain tumors.

19 Jul 2026

Study reveals how adolescent brain remodeling reshapes memory retrieval

Scientists have long known that the human brain continues developing well beyond the teenage years, with important changes involving decision-making and emotional regulation extending into the mid-to-late 20s.

17 Jul 2026

New ctDNA blood test improves personalized prostate cancer treatment

A noninvasive DNA blood test can identify metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients who are most likely to benefit from 223Ra radiopharmaceutical therapy and monitor their progress throughout treatment, according to new research published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

17 Jul 2026

SORLA protein may protect the brain from toxic tau tangles

Alzheimer's disease and many other forms of neurodegeneration share a common culprit. In these diseases, tau proteins that normally stabilize neuronal microtubule filaments within our nervous system networks instead form noxious knots and gradually disrupt the circuits they would otherwise preserve.

17 Jul 2026

Study reveals mechanism underlying HBV-induced liver inflammation

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major cause of global liver morbidity, leading to progressive necroinflammation that often culminates in cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

17 Jul 2026

G&H highlights end-to-end diagnostic device development at ADLM 2026

At the ADLM Clinical Lab Expo 2026, G&H will showcase how diagnostic and medical device companies can accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative healthcare technologies through a single partner offering multidisciplinary engineering, precision optics, photonics and ISO 13485-certified manufacturing.

17 Jul 2026

Leica Biosystems to acquire StatLab

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17 Jul 2026

Experimental drug shows promise against NRAS-driven melanoma

A research team from Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) reports that a groundbreaking pathway-targeted therapy could be an effective treatment for certain melanoma patients and fill an unmet clinical need for patients with advanced disease.

16 Jul 2026

New approach enhances radiotherapy by disabling cancer's DNA repair machinery

Cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapy work by doing one main thing: shredding the DNA of cancer cells so they can no longer multiply.

16 Jul 2026

LIG1 loss reveals new treatment strategy for aggressive breast cancer

Loss of one copy of the DNA Ligase I (LIG1) gene in triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) with TP53 mutations confers resistance to chemotherapy, but researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have identified a vulnerability in these cells and used it to their advantage.

16 Jul 2026

New guideline offers recommendations for testosterone replacement therapy use

The Society's Clinical Practice Guideline on testosterone replacement therapy in men with hypogonadism offers recommendations on appropriate testing and prescribing practices.

16 Jul 2026

Researchers identify new genetic pathway driving epilepsy and seizures

Researchers have uncovered a novel biological pathway that can lead to seizures when disrupted. The findings also provide a new approach to improve the diagnosis of epilepsy, for which a genetic cause cannot be found in about 50 % of individuals with the condition

16 Jul 2026

Immune pathway may promote the progression of oral precancerous lesions

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center identified an immune pathway that may promote the progression of oral precancerous lesions into head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

16 Jul 2026

New model improves short- and long-term disease risk prediction

Researchers developed ALADYNOULLI, a Bayesian generative model that combines longitudinal health records, age, and polygenic risk to identify reproducible disease signatures across more than 683,000 participants. In UK Biobank testing, the framework achieved stronger short- and long-term risk discrimination than established clinical scores while revealing disease subgroups and genetic associations.

16 Jul 2026

Targeting ZBP1 may overcome cancer immunotherapy resistance

A new Review published in the open-access journal Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress highlights Z-nucleic acid-binding protein 1 (ZBP1) as an emerging innate immune sensor that converts genomic stress into potent antitumor immunity.

16 Jul 2026

Long-term lenalidomide maintenance shows no survival advantage in multiple myeloma

For patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma not undergoing an autologous stem cell transplant, indefinite lenalidomide maintenance has long been standard care despite limited evidence to guide the optimal duration of treatment.

16 Jul 2026