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 Glossary

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

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

Cancer Diagnosis

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Management

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Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer History

What is Cancer?

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

What Causes Cancer?

Insights into Oncofertility

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Cancer Pathophysiology

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Cancer Classification

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

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

Cancer Research

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Pain Management

Secondary Lung Cancer

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

Cancer Pain

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

CDK9 and Cancer

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

What is Immunochemotherapy?

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Epidemiology

Cancer Prognosis

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Pediatric Cancer

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Secondary Brain Cancer

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Latest Cancer News and Research

Aircrews face highest risk of radiation-related cancer deaths

Of more than 500 occupations in the United States, flight attendants and pilots have the highest and second-highest proportion of radiation-related cancer deaths, a new study has found.

17 Aug 2026

Daily sugary drinks linked to higher gastric cancer risk

Approximately 65% of U.S. adults report consuming one or more sugar-sweetened beverages every day.

17 Aug 2026

Multi-source data-driven machine learning improves lung cancer care

Lung cancer remains one of the malignancies with the highest incidence and mortality worldwide.

17 Aug 2026

Computational pipeline uncovers subtype specific targets for cervical cancer

A new study presents a multi-layered strategy for identifying cell-surface targets that could help guide more precise antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) development for cervical cancer, with different targets showing distinct potential across tumor subtypes.

17 Aug 2026

Simple scheduling change can improve health and well-being of night-shift physicians

University of Missouri researchers have found that a simple scheduling change can improve the health and well-being of physicians working overnight shifts.

17 Aug 2026

Polydatin reduces ulcerative colitis by regulating intestinal immune cells

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease in which recurrent intestinal inflammation can be difficult to control over the long term.

17 Aug 2026

Beauty tutorials in social media increase use of hormone-disrupting products by teens

Personal care products are among the largest everyday sources of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and high schoolers who follow social media influencers or watch beauty tutorials seem to use considerably more of them, according to Rutgers researchers.

17 Aug 2026

Tagomics introduces LiquiPath, a first-in-class cfDNA-based blood test for multi-organ drug safety monitoring

Tagomics Ltd., a pioneering precision medicine company, today announced the launch of LiquiPath™, a cross-species, multi-organ "liquid pathology" platform, for non-invasive drug safety monitoring.

From Tagomics Ltd. 17 Aug 2026

Placental biology breakthrough could make biologic medicines safer during pregnancy

Biologic medicines have transformed the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, migraine, inflammatory disorders and many other diseases.

14 Aug 2026

Blocking caspase-1 appears to reduce the risk of developing lung tumors

Every year, lung cancer kills more than 100,000 people in the United States. Smoking is the leading risk factor for lung cancer, but other environmental exposures can also contribute to the disease.

14 Aug 2026

PolyU develops AI Virtual Patient Simulation System for precision cancer care

A research team at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a patient-centric "Artificial Intelligence (AI) Virtual Patient Simulation System", overcoming the limitations of conventional static diagnosis.

14 Aug 2026

UiA research project develops mobile app to combat world’s most neglected tropical diseases

A research project at UiA is working to combat one of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases. A mobile app has now been developed to train healthcare workers in Africa to detect the disease.

14 Aug 2026

Würzburg researchers discover alternative approach to preventing thrombosis

Glycoprotein VI, or GPVI for short, is a surface receptor found exclusively on platelets and their precursor cells, megakaryocytes in the bone marrow.

14 Aug 2026

AI-based "tissue clocks" measure the biological age of human organs

AI-based "tissue clocks" can estimate the biological age of human organs from histological images, researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine (LBI-NetMed) at the University of Vienna showed.

14 Aug 2026

New microscope tracks electrical activity across the brain on the scale of milliseconds

Within the brain, neurons compute by generating electrical impulses. These signals travel throughout neurons, which are in turn connected in vast networks that control brain functions such as sensory perception, memory formation, and control of movement.

14 Aug 2026

Outfitting cells in "invisibility cloaks" could offer a novel approach to treating diabetes

Outfitting cells in "invisibility cloaks" may offer an easier, less damaging treatment pathway for people with diabetes undergoing cell therapy, according to researchers at Penn State.

14 Aug 2026

Salk scientists use DNA origami to track molecular movements

Scientists often describe life as a series of chemical reactions. Pallav Kosuri, PhD, describes life as movement. Chemical reactions are how you drive the movement of atoms, proteins, cells, and bodies-without movement, there is no life.

14 Aug 2026

New method enables more precise labeling of protein-protein interactions in cancer-specific cells

Using a photochemically driven labeling technique, a Cornell University-led research group has devised a strategy for capturing cancer-specific protein-to-protein interactions, which could one day spawn targeted therapies for prostate, small-cell lung, pancreatic and other deadly forms of the disease.

14 Aug 2026

Weizmann study reveals how DNA repair enzymes choose targets

When a wound does not heal properly, it leaves a scar. Similarly, mutations – which are permanent changes to genetic code – are often the result of damaged DNA that has not been properly repaired.

14 Aug 2026

Meat, stress and risk-taking: what 38 experiments reveal about masculinity threat

Experimental evidence suggests that masculinity threat can push some men toward health-risk behaviors, with the clearest and most consistent effects seen in meat-related food choices. Across 38 experiments, effects on stress, fitness, risk-taking, and relationships were mixed or limited, while individual beliefs about masculinity shaped how men responded.

14 Aug 2026