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.

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Classification

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Cancer Prognosis

What Causes Cancer?

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

What is Cancer?

Living with Cancer Pain

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Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer History

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Pain

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Research

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

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

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer Pathophysiology

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Symptoms

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Diagnosis

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Glossary

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

What is Tumorigenesis?

Targeted Cancer Therapies

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Insights into Oncofertility

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Management

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Myc Mutations and Cancer

CDK9 and Cancer

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

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

Cancer Pain Management

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Latest Cancer News and Research

EU-funded project develops mRNA vaccine targeting liver cancer

The European Innovation Council (EIC) is providing approximately €3.8 million in funding for the international research project ADVANCE, in which Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt is participating. The ADVANCE research team aims to develop an mRNA-based cancer vaccine for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

10 Nov 2026

Swedish study identifies risk factors for prolonged opioid use after surgery

Opioids are effective medicines for severe pain following surgery, but prolonged use is associated with risks such as dependence and overdose.

10 Nov 2026

Study examines long-term pain outcomes after surgical nerve freezing

After thoracic surgery – any medical operation done inside the chest – patients can experience pain, soreness or numbness even years later.

10 Nov 2026

UCLA introduces single-port robotic approach for lung cancer surgery

UCLA Health performs its first single-port robotic lobectomy, using a new technique that could reduce pain and make recovery easier for patients with lung cancer.

10 Nov 2026

Clinical trial evaluates fully implantable cochlear implant technology

University Hospitals is bringing the next generation of hearing technology to patients in Northeast Ohio as the only site in the state participating in a Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the Totally Implantable Cochlear Implant (TICI).

10 Nov 2026

Chemotherapy may accelerate biological aging in breast cancer survivors

Chemotherapy helps many women survive breast cancer, but new research suggests that chemotherapy may also accelerate biological aging beyond chronological age and increase the risk of earlier death from other causes.

10 Nov 2026

UTHealth Houston unveils state-of-the-art mobile clinic in the Lower Rio Grande Valley

UTHealth Houston celebrated a major milestone in community healthcare Oct. 22 with the ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new, state-of-the-art mobile clinic in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

10 Nov 2026

$32 million grant extends landmark Alzheimer's research through 2031

When Leonard Berg, MD, then a neurologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, noticed memory problems among his older patients in the 1970s, he refused to dismiss the problems as part of "normal aging" or senility but instead set out to understand what was happening in their brains.

10 Nov 2026

Video-assisted informed consent shortens face-to-face cancer surgery consultations

For patients undergoing gastric cancer surgery, informed consent (IC) can involve extensive information about surgical methods, complications, risks, benefits, and life after treatment.

10 Nov 2026

New patient-centered initiative aims to accelerate pediatric AML research and treatments

Blood Cancer United today announced the launch of Dare to Dream REALworld: AML, a patient-centered initiative co-founded with Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research.

10 Nov 2026

Mayo Clinic research advances treatment options for genitourinary cancers

Cancers of the reproductive and urinary organs, known as genitourinary cancers, affect millions of people worldwide each year. Yousef Zakharia, M.D., a Mayo Clinic medical oncologist, leads clinical research aimed at improving treatment results for patients with kidney, bladder and prostate cancers.

10 Nov 2026

Regular coffee consumption alters gut bacteria and digestive physiology

If you drink coffee regularly, it appears to alter not only your gut bacteria but also the physiology of the gut itself. That is the conclusion of a study from the University of Copenhagen, which may help point the way towards better treatments for constipation.

10 Nov 2026

Common blood pressure drugs may improve ulcerative colitis therapy

A class of blood pressure medications may improve a widely used treatment for ulcerative colitis, the most common type of inflammatory bowel disease, suggests a new study, led by Northwestern Medicine and Kiel University in Germany, of thousands of patients with the disease.

10 Nov 2026

A weight-loss drug eased knee arthritis pain in two major trials

Retatrutide effectively alleviates knee pain and enhances mobility in obese osteoarthritis patients, but long-term safety and joint health remain uncertain.

10 Nov 2026

Late night eating and sleep habits damage gut health, increase metabolic disease risk

A new study led by UTHealth Houston identified a link between late-night eating and sleeping habits, gut health, and metabolic disease, offering new insights into why some individuals with obesity may face risk of inflammation and related health problems.

9 Nov 2026

Most eligible teens miss out on advanced obesity treatments

Despite the arrival of powerful new anti-obesity medications and growing evidence supporting weight-loss surgery for adolescents, the vast majority of eligible teens are receiving neither treatment, according to a new study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago published in JAMA Pediatrics.

9 Nov 2026

DNA methylation patterns predict treatment response in MDS patients

DNA methylation patterns present at diagnosis could help predict which patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) will respond to azacitidine.

9 Nov 2026

UCLA study identifies lipid imbalance as pulmonary fibrosis trigger

A new UCLA Health study in mice has identified a new potential trigger for pulmonary fibrosis: lipid dysregulation (a fat imbalance) within alveolar macrophages.

9 Nov 2026

New treatment approach could help people with muscle-invasive bladder cancer live longer

A new treatment approach could help people with an aggressive form of bladder cancer live longer and reduce the chances of their cancer returning or progressing, particularly those who cannot receive standard chemotherapy, according to findings from a large international clinical trial co-led by researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

9 Nov 2026

Blocking complement factor B halts pancreatic cancer growth

Researchers have identified a promising new target in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. A new study in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, demonstrates that blocking complement factor B (CFB), a pivotal enzyme in the alternative complement pathway, halts cancer growth and alters the tumor microenvironment.

9 Nov 2026