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 Classification

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cancer Diagnosis

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Living with Cancer Pain

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer Pathophysiology

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

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

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Secondary Lung Cancer

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

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

Insights into Oncofertility

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

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

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer History

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

CDK9 and Cancer

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Epidemiology

Cancer Prognosis

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

What Causes Cancer?

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Cancer Symptoms

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

What is Cancer?

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer Pain Management

Cancer Research

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Management

Cancer Glossary

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Pain

Latest Cancer News and Research

LIG1 loss reveals new treatment strategy for aggressive breast cancer

Loss of one copy of the DNA Ligase I (LIG1) gene in triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) with TP53 mutations confers resistance to chemotherapy, but researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have identified a vulnerability in these cells and used it to their advantage.

16 Jul 2026

New guideline offers recommendations for testosterone replacement therapy use

The Society's Clinical Practice Guideline on testosterone replacement therapy in men with hypogonadism offers recommendations on appropriate testing and prescribing practices.

16 Jul 2026

Researchers identify new genetic pathway driving epilepsy and seizures

Researchers have uncovered a novel biological pathway that can lead to seizures when disrupted. The findings also provide a new approach to improve the diagnosis of epilepsy, for which a genetic cause cannot be found in about 50 % of individuals with the condition

16 Jul 2026

Immune pathway may promote the progression of oral precancerous lesions

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center identified an immune pathway that may promote the progression of oral precancerous lesions into head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

16 Jul 2026

New model improves short- and long-term disease risk prediction

Researchers developed ALADYNOULLI, a Bayesian generative model that combines longitudinal health records, age, and polygenic risk to identify reproducible disease signatures across more than 683,000 participants. In UK Biobank testing, the framework achieved stronger short- and long-term risk discrimination than established clinical scores while revealing disease subgroups and genetic associations.

16 Jul 2026

Targeting ZBP1 may overcome cancer immunotherapy resistance

A new Review published in the open-access journal Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress highlights Z-nucleic acid-binding protein 1 (ZBP1) as an emerging innate immune sensor that converts genomic stress into potent antitumor immunity.

16 Jul 2026

Long-term lenalidomide maintenance shows no survival advantage in multiple myeloma

For patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma not undergoing an autologous stem cell transplant, indefinite lenalidomide maintenance has long been standard care despite limited evidence to guide the optimal duration of treatment.

16 Jul 2026

Study highlights communication gaps between cancer survivors and providers on cannabis

For many cancer survivors, cannabis has become part of how they manage symptoms such as pain, nausea and anxiety.

16 Jul 2026

Specialized dendritic cells found to coordinate antitumor immunity

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified the immune cell that acts as the architect and coordinator of powerful immune hubs that form inside tumors and plays a key role in antitumor immunity.

16 Jul 2026

Single-cell analysis identifies key regulators of cancer metastasis

By analyzing individual cancer cells, researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) discovered the transcriptional regulators governing EMT in tumors and identified key master regulators that control metastasis, unraveling novel therapeutic vulnerabilities to block metastatic dissemination.

16 Jul 2026

Blood-based gene tests show promise for pancreatic cancer screening

Researchers at Kanazawa University report the blood-based gene expression tests may enable early pancreatic cancer screening and improve long-term survival.

16 Jul 2026

New biological feedback loop helps the immune system attack colorectal cancers

A subset of cancers, known as microsatellite instability (MSI) and deficient DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) cancers, are more visible to the immune system than others.

16 Jul 2026

Study suggests lipid droplet accumulation is a conserved feature of senescent cells

A new research paper was published in Volume 18 of Aging on July 1, 2026, titled "Senescent cells accumulate lipid droplets."

16 Jul 2026

Experimental KRAS vaccine safely generates durable immune response against pancreatic cancer

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Skip Viragh Center for Pancreatic Cancer report that an experimental vaccine targeting mutant KRAS, one of the most common genetic drivers of pancreatic cancer, was safe and generated durable immune responses aimed at preventing the cancer in people at high risk.

16 Jul 2026

Weill Cornell Medicine receives DoD grant to target triple-negative breast cancer

Weill Cornell Medicine has received a $2.5 million, three-year grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) to develop therapies with fewer side effects for triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat breast cancers.

16 Jul 2026

UCL study shows more UK smokers use illicit tobacco sources

Published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, the research analyzed repeated cross-sectional survey data from 9,996 participants aged 16 or older who reported they currently smoked.

16 Jul 2026

Scientists show how sweeteners slow the growth of certain gut bacteria

Cambridge researchers have shown how commonly-used sweeteners slow the growth of certain gut bacteria.

16 Jul 2026

New body mass index could overcome limitations of BMI

The Consistent Body Mass Index (CBMI) offers a promising alternative to traditional BMI, aligning with waist-to-height ratio for better body size assessment.

16 Jul 2026

Extended myeloma maintenance therapy shows no additional survival benefit

A major national cooperative group clinical trial led by Mayo Clinic researchers found that continuing maintenance therapy with lenalidomide beyond two years after initial treatment for standard-risk multiple myeloma did not improve overall survival compared with stopping treatment after two years.

15 Jul 2026

Study highlights breast screening barriers facing Black women in Britain

Black African and Black Caribbean women in the UK want clearer and more accessible information about breast cancer screening, according to a study from the University of Surrey.

15 Jul 2026