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 Pain

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Insights into Oncofertility

Cancer Classification

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Pediatric Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

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British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Glossary

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer Research

Cancer Epidemiology

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer History

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Targeted Cancer Therapies

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer Pain Management

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Secondary Lung Cancer

CDK9 and Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What is Tumorigenesis?

What Causes Cancer?

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

What is Cancer?

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

What is Immunochemotherapy?

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Secondary Brain Cancer

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Prognosis

Cancer Management

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Diagnosis

Living with Cancer Pain

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

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

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

Latest Cancer News and Research

Autonomous medical AI outperforms doctors in simulated EHR cases

MIRA, an autonomous AI agent tested in a sandboxed electronic health record, diagnosed 574 real emergency department cases with 88.9% accuracy and outperformed physicians in a matched 311-case comparison. The system ordered tests, generated medication plans, and made admission decisions in simulation, but the authors stress that prospective validation, governance, and physician oversight are still essential.

21 Jun 2026

New human protein atlas maps how cancer rewires the body’s tissues

Researchers created a DIA-MS atlas of 13,609 proteins across 2,856 samples from fetal, healthy adult, paired non-tumor, and tumor tissues. The resource maps tissue-specific protein patterns, cancer-associated changes, organ-specific drug-toxicity signals, and candidate therapeutic targets.

21 Jun 2026

International survey highlights major gaps in cardio-oncology education

An international survey has highlighted major gaps in cardio-oncology training, despite its increasing clinical importance. These results were presented at ESC Cardio-Oncology 2026, the second annual conference of the European Society of Cardiology's Council of Cardio-Oncology.

21 Jun 2026

Many kidney transplant candidates fail to reach the national waitlist

Nearly half of Americans with kidney failure who are referred for transplantation never begin the process required to be considered for a new organ, a new study shows, while less than a fifth actually complete the assessment and get on the waitlist.

21 Jun 2026

Synthetic gut communities reveal how diet rewires the microbiome

Synthetic microbial communities give researchers controlled models for testing how diet reshapes gut microbial ecology, metabolism, and host-relevant responses. The review highlights how SynComs can strengthen causal inference, improve intervention testing, and support future precision nutrition, while noting major challenges in stability, standardization, and ecological realism.

21 Jun 2026

Aging immune cells may explain why autoimmunity rises later in life

A new Review reveals how aging can push the immune system into a paradoxical state, weaker against threats yet more prone to attacking the body’s own tissues.

21 Jun 2026

NYU Langone performs the world's first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive lung transplant

The world's first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive lung transplant was performed at NYU Langone Health.

19 Jun 2026

New method generates renewable supply of progenitor immune cells

In a paper published in Cell, a USC Stem Cell-led team reports a new way of generating a renewable and expandable supply of the progenitor cells that give rise to macrophages.

19 Jun 2026

Heart failure treatments protect heart function during cancer therapy

The cardioprotective effects of heart failure treatments in patients with cancer were demonstrated today in a presentation at ESC Cardio-Oncology 2026, the annual conference of the European Society of Cardiology's Council of Cardio-Oncology.

19 Jun 2026

Study shows jumping genes can transfer between different species

Genes are not passed on exclusively from parents to their offspring. Some are mobile and can also jump to other species, as researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen have now shown.

19 Jun 2026

AI discovers hidden antibiotic candidates inside disease-causing prions

New antibiotic candidates for drug-resistant bacteria may reside inside prions, mis-folded protein in the brain best known for rare and fatal degenerative brain diseases.

19 Jun 2026

Gene therapy successfully treats deadly childhood liver disease in mice

A new gene therapy has been used to successfully treat a deadly childhood liver disease using mice that model this disease by researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

19 Jun 2026

HPV vaccination linked to sharp decline in cervical cancer deaths

High-income countries that initiated widespread administration of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in the mid-2000s have experienced substantial declines in cervical cancer cases, marking a significant achievement in medicine.

18 Jun 2026

AI imaging technique detects early endometrial cancer with high accuracy

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer, with more than 69,000 cases diagnosed in the U.S. in 2025 and increasing up to 3% annually.

18 Jun 2026

Gene deletion exposes hidden colon cancer cells to immunotherapy attack

A study from the University of Calgary shows that removing a single gene makes colon cancer cells a target for immunotherapy - a fundamental breakthrough.

18 Jun 2026

Breast milk nutrient boosts long-term immune system development

Trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), the most abundant trans fatty acid found in human breast milk, helps boost immune system development and has long-lasting effects on immune system health in mice, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Chicago.

18 Jun 2026