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.

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer plasticity allows tumor cells to change their identity, evade therapies, and adapt to environmental pressures, contributing to treatment resistance and metastasis. New research is targeting this adaptability through epigenetic drugs, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and strategies to limit phenotypic switching.

Cancer Diagnosis

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Pain

Cancer Epidemiology

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Secondary Brain Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

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Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

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

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Management

Cancer Prognosis

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Pathophysiology

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

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

What Causes Cancer?

What is Cancer?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Classification

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer Glossary

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Insights into Oncofertility

Cancer History

Cancer Pain Management

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

CDK9 and Cancer

Cancer Research

Secondary Lung Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

What is Tumorigenesis?

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Latest Cancer News and Research

New computational method reconstructs how cells decide their fate

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct the complex dynamics of how cells decide their fate.

30 Dec 2025

Silica nanomatrix enhances immunotherapy for solid tumors

Cancer has long remained a leading cause of death worldwide and in Hong Kong, accounting for 30% of all disease-related deaths in the city in 2025. While chemotherapy remains a major treatment modality, its side effects and the risk of relapse challenges for patients.

30 Dec 2025

Targeting CSE enzyme may offer new pathways for Alzheimer’s treatment

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say results of a new National Institutes of Health-funded study are advancing efforts to exploit a new target for Alzheimer's disease: a protein that manufactures an important gas in the brain.

30 Dec 2025

Dihydrotanshinone I induces autophagic cell death in ovarian cancer

A recent study published in Engineering has shed light on the potential therapeutic effects of dihydrotanshinone I (DHT), a compound derived from the traditional Chinese herb Salvia miltiorrhiza, on ovarian cancer.

30 Dec 2025

Minimal residual disease monitoring can transform breast cancer care

Despite major therapeutic advances, breast cancer remains prone to recurrence, particularly in patients with early-stage disease who appear disease-free after treatment.

30 Dec 2025

Trial evaluates a traditional Chinese herbal formula for diabetic kidney disease with macroalbuminuria

Diabetic kidney disease affects a growing proportion of people with diabetes and remains the leading cause of end-stage renal disease.

30 Dec 2025

Epigenetic plasticity in germinal center B cells may help explain lymphoma origins

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During their preparation for this battle, B cells transiently revert to a more flexible, or plastic, stem-cell-like state in the lymph nodes, according to a new preclinical study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

30 Dec 2025

Inflammation and immune suppression fuel aggressive SCLC behavior and spread

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is one of the most aggressive forms of lung cancer, with a five-year survival rate of only five percent. Despite this poor prognosis, SCLC is initially highly responsive to chemotherapy.

30 Dec 2025

Combination therapy offers hope for AML patients facing drug resistance

A research team at Oregon Health & Science University has discovered a promising new drug combination that may help people with acute myeloid leukemia overcome resistance to one of the most common frontline therapies.

30 Dec 2025

Scientists capture real-time action of antiviral drugs on herpes

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

30 Dec 2025

Study reveals a therapeutic vulnerability in aggressive subtype of triple-negative breast cancer

A new study published today in Science Translational Medicine by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center details a therapeutic vulnerability in patients with an aggressive subtype of triple-negative breast cancer.

26 Dec 2025

Brain imaging reveals how stimulant drugs improve performance in ADHD

Prescription stimulants, such as Ritalin and Adderall, are widely used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including in children.

26 Dec 2025

Researchers develop mild mitochondrial uncouplers for obesity treatment

Researchers have developed experimental drugs that encourage the mitochondria in our cells to work a little harder and burn more calories. The findings could open the door to new treatments for obesity and improve metabolic health.

24 Dec 2025

Alcohol consumption plays a major role in India’s mouth cancer burden

Even a low daily intake of alcohol--just 9 g or around one standard drink-is linked to a 50% heightened risk of mouth (buccal mucosa) cancer in India, with the greatest risk associated with locally brewed alcohol, finds a large comparative study, published online in the open access journal BMJ Global Health.

23 Dec 2025

Restoring brain energy balance reverses Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease prevention or slowing, rather than recovery.

23 Dec 2025

Discovery of fat-regulating enzyme points to a new obesity therapy

Obesity is a global epidemic and a major cause of morbidity and mortality because it increases the risk for comorbidities, including heart disease and fatty liver disease (MASLD).

23 Dec 2025

Artificial intelligence improves risk stratification in oropharyngeal cancer

A team led by investigators at Mass General Brigham and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has developed and validated an artificial intelligence (AI)–based noninvasive tool that can predict the likelihood that a patient's oropharyngeal cancer-a type of head and neck cancer that develops in the throat-will spread, thereby signaling which patients should receive aggressive treatment.

23 Dec 2025

Study validates OVCAR3 as a model for high-grade serous ovarian cancer

A new research paper was published in Volume 12 of Oncoscience on October 14, 2025, titled "Bridging clinical insight and laboratory model in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) using DNA sequencing-based profiling of TP53."

23 Dec 2025

AI analysis maps a century of global aging research

A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 11 of Aging-US on November 25, 2025, titled "A natural language processing–driven map of the aging research landscape."

23 Dec 2025

CT-based quantification of tumor fibrosis guides chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer

On October 3, 2025, a multicenter team from Shenzhen University, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Wuxi People's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, among others jointly reported a novel noninvasive method for quantifying tumor fibrosis based on preoperative enhanced CT.

23 Dec 2025