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?

Myc Mutations and Cancer

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

CDK9 and Cancer

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Epidemiology

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer Diagnosis

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

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Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

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

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cancer Research

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Glossary

Pediatric Cancer

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

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

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Insights into Oncofertility

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Pain

Cancer Symptoms

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

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

Cancer Management

Cancer History

Secondary Brain Cancer

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Classification

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Cancer Pain Management

Cancer Prognosis

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

What is Cancer?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

Secondary Lung Cancer

Latest Cancer News and Research

AI-based methods help uncover hidden roots of tumor metastasis

A cancerous tumor is not a single enemy. It is made up of many different cell populations that can behave in very different ways.

12 Aug 2026

Mitochondrial gene RTN4IP1 drives triple-negative breast cancer metastasis

Triple-negative breast cancer accounts for approximately 15% of all breast cancer cases. It is characterized by the absence of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2 expression, rendering it insensitive to conventional endocrine and targeted therapies.

12 Aug 2026

Researchers find unexpected protein regulator of leukemia drug sensitivity

How cells respond to the leukemia drug 6-thioguanine still holds surprises: A new study, led by researchers from CeMM and the University of Oxford identifies NUDT5 as an unexpected regulator of drug sensitivity and reveals that its role has nothing to do with its enzymatic activity.

12 Aug 2026

UC San Diego and West Health launch new national healthcare model

America's health care system is under pressure with demand rising, hospital capacity strained and the number of patients who need care the most increasing faster than the system was built to serve.

12 Aug 2026

New program receives CDC grant to expand access to breast and cervical cancer screening

The Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program (LBCHP), a program of the LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center and housed at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, has received more than $3 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand access to breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic services and patient navigation across Louisiana.

12 Aug 2026

Researchers develop noninvasive chairside test to detect oral cancer

A Case Western Reserve University–led research team is developing a noninvasive oral cancer test to help clinicians decide-chairside and within minutes- whether a suspicious lesion in the mouth needs a biopsy.

12 Aug 2026

Ultra-processed foods linked to higher prostate cancer risk in men

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) account for nearly 60% of adults' and 70% of children's energy intake in the United States.

12 Aug 2026

Online AI breastfeeding advice causes dangerous delays in infant care

For sleep-deprived nursing moms, artificial intelligence may feel like a lifeline.

12 Aug 2026

Social disadvantage associated with increased mortality risk in women with early natural menopause

Early natural menopause is already associated with a higher long-term health burden. A new large-scale study demonstrates that cumulative social disadvantage-and in particular, unemployment-is strongly associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, as well as a marked predisposition to dementia, in women with early natural menopause.

12 Aug 2026

How much do nuts matter for blood pressure? This study points to about a handful a day

A meta-analysis of eight prospective studies involving 143,380 participants found that higher nut consumption was associated with a lower risk of developing hypertension. Each 28 g/day increment was associated with a 20% lower relative risk in the linear analysis, while the modeled association appeared to level off at around one handful per day.

12 Aug 2026

Cannabis compounds may weaken glioblastoma response to chemotherapy and radiation

Several cannabinoids reduced chemotherapy- and radiation-induced apoptosis in glioblastoma cell models, with effects linked to reduced apoptotic priming, increased pro-survival signaling, and G1 cell-cycle arrest. The findings raise concern that cannabinoid exposure could interfere with some cancer treatments, although the results are limited to laboratory models and require in vivo and clinical validation.

12 Aug 2026

Genetic tool turns soft cancer cells into immune targets

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Keck School of Medicine of USC have engineered a remarkable genetic tool that addresses one of the most persistent obstacles in cancer immunotherapy: the physical softness of tumors.

11 Aug 2026

Study: Nearly all personal care and cleaning products contain undisclosed chemicals

A new study of sunscreens, baby lotions, shampoos, soaps, and other everyday products found that nearly all contained chemicals not disclosed on their labels.

11 Aug 2026

ANESTHESIOLOGY 2026 to highlight latest advances in anesthesia care

Ketamine given during C-sections could help ease early symptoms of postpartum depression. Common pain relievers, such as ibuprofen, may reduce the risk of delirium after surgery.

11 Aug 2026

New human tissue chips aim to replace animal testing

Animal testing has long been the standard for evaluating new drugs before they reach human patients. But when it comes to cancer immunotherapy drugs, animal models often fail to predict which immunotherapies might produce harmful side effects in humans because they do not have the same responses or the same cell receptors.

11 Aug 2026

HonorHealth begins trial of dendritic cell vaccine for advanced melanoma

Physicians at HonorHealth Research Institute have begun a clinical trial of a new, potentially more powerful, treatment for fighting advanced melanoma, using the immune system's dendritic cells to create a vaccine.

11 Aug 2026

New study identifies key pathway for delivering antisense cancer drugs

Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) have been proposed as a therapeutic approach to shut down the production of faulty proteins in a wide variety of diseases, including cancer.

11 Aug 2026

New lab-grown heart valves advance treatments for childhood heart diseases

Melbourne researchers have created human heart valve tissues from stem cells, providing a powerful new platform to advance treatments for childhood heart diseases.

11 Aug 2026

Scientists identify parasite-specific protein linked to chronic Toxoplasma infections

Toxoplasma gondii, or Toxoplasma, is a parasite that infects hundreds of millions of people around the world.

11 Aug 2026

New UH Health initiative targets Texas healthcare workforce shortage

Addressing Texas' growing healthcare workforce shortage and rising demand for care, the University of Houston has launched UH Health, an academic health enterprise designed to integrate education, research and community engagement across the University.

11 Aug 2026