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.

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

CDK9 and Cancer

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

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

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Targeted Cancer Therapies

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What is Cancer?

Cancer Glossary

Cancer Research

Cancer History

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

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Management

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Cancer Diagnosis

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

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Pathophysiology

Pediatric Cancer

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Cancer Pain Management

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

What is Tumorigenesis?

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Symptoms

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Living with Cancer Pain

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Insights into Oncofertility

Secondary Lung Cancer

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Classification

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Prognosis

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Pain

Latest Cancer News and Research

Study uses alternative splicing data to predict protein function

A single human gene can produce multiple protein isoforms through alternative splicing, greatly expanding the functional diversity of the proteome.

10 Aug 2026

Study links delayed Ewing sarcoma growth to reduced Trk and IGF1R pathway markers

A new research paper was published in Volume 17 of Oncotarget on August 7, 2026, titled "Delayed growth of SK-ES-1 Ewing sarcoma tumor xenografts is associated with reduced Trk and IGF1R pathway markers."

10 Aug 2026

Scientists create single-cell atlas of spinal neurons involved in motor coordination

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital created a single-cell atlas of a key class of spinal neurons involved in motor coordination. From that resource, they identified a small subgroup of interneurons associated with the speed of rhythmic movements such as walking.

10 Aug 2026

Traditional prostate cancer features fail to predict hormone therapy benefit

A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that while traditional pathological features used to classify aggressive prostate cancer -such as high-grade disease, cancer extending outside the prostate and cancer involving the seminal vesicles- after surgery can help identify patients who are more likely to have worse outcomes, they do not predict who will benefit more from adding hormone therapy to postoperative radiation.

10 Aug 2026

New partnership expands patient access to cancer clinical trials

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC) and Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) have partnered to help patients gain greater access to potential cancer treatments by participating in clinical trials.

10 Aug 2026

New study uncovers metabolic vulnerability in high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Cancer Center have identified a previously unknown metabolic weakness in the stem cells that drive high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a discovery that could lead to more targeted treatments for this aggressive blood cancer.

10 Aug 2026

Natural hormone activates brain-to-liver signaling pathway to suppress liver inflammation

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered that a naturally occurring hormone best known for suppressing appetite and promoting weight loss also helps protect the liver from inflammation through a previously unknown signalling pathway, opening new possibilities for treating advanced fatty liver disease.

10 Aug 2026

New research agreement funds xenoliver transplant center at Baylor

Baylor College of Medicine today announced that a new research agreement with United Therapeutics Corporation, a public benefit corporation, will provide up to $5 million a year for five years to establish the Baylor College of Medicine Center for Xenoliver Transplantation and Immunomodulation (XTI), dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of xenoliver transplantation.

10 Aug 2026

New gene signature predicts immunotherapy success for bone marrow cancers

A team led by researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the HI-STEM Stem Cell Institute, and Medical Clinic V at Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) has characterized T cells in the bone marrow in cases of multiple myeloma and acute myeloid leukemia: A specific group of tumor-reactive T cells can recognize and, in principle, fight cancer cells, but is often not sufficiently activated.

10 Aug 2026

Neighborhood conditions help explain racial disparities in ovarian cancer survival

A new study led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that women living in socially vulnerable communities face a 20% higher risk of death after an ovarian cancer diagnosis compared with women living in less vulnerable communities.

10 Aug 2026

Immune cell interaction timing impacts glioblastoma treatment response

A joint research team led by Professor Sungsu Park of Sungkyunkwan University and Professor Sun-Ha Paek of Seoul National University College of Medicine has demonstrated for the first time that the sequence in which immune cells interact with cancer cells can critically influence the therapeutic response in glioblastoma.

10 Aug 2026

New pathway explains how zombie cells trigger chronic inflammation

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps aging cells drive the chronic inflammation linked to many age-related diseases.

10 Aug 2026

Circular eccDNA shows potential to predict early-stage LUAD recurrence

LUAD is the most common histological subtype of lung cancer. Although surgery can be curative for patients diagnosed at an early stage, approximately 30%-50% develop recurrence or aggressive metastasis within five years.

10 Aug 2026

Optimal prostate-specific antigen cutoff linked to improved prostate cancer survival

After treatment for metastatic prostate cancer, a drop in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in the blood is an indicator that the treatment is working.

10 Aug 2026

Why pulses could play a bigger role in healthy and sustainable diets

A narrative review finds that pulses may support gut and metabolic health through their fiber, protein, phytochemicals, and interactions with the gut microbiota, while offering a lower environmental footprint than many animal protein sources. Human evidence is strongest for selected cardiometabolic outcomes, while many microbiome and fermentation-related benefits remain supported mainly by animal and laboratory studies.

9 Aug 2026