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 Causes Cancer?

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

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

Cancer Diagnosis

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Research

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Pediatric Cancer

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Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

What is Cancer?

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Cancer Symptoms

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

What is Tumorigenesis?

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Pathophysiology

Secondary Brain Cancer

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Classification

Cancer Management

Cancer Glossary

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

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

Cancer Pain

Cancer Pain Management

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Cancer Prognosis

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Insights into Oncofertility

Living with Cancer Pain

CDK9 and Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer History

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Latest Cancer News and Research

Generative AI may help scientists connect the many layers of cancer

A Cell Perspective argues that generative AI models could help tackle cancer’s multiscale, multimodal complexity by complementing the Hallmarks of Cancer framework. It proposes that models capable of complex pattern recognition, multimodal fusion, and contextual reasoning could improve cancer detection, biological discovery, and precision oncology, while still requiring rigorous validation and human oversight.

19 Apr 2026

What the Health? From KFF Health News: A new CDC nominee, again

President Donald Trump this week nominated a former deputy surgeon general who has expressed support for vaccines to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

17 Apr 2026

AGA update calls for better surveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma

A new update from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) urges stronger prevention efforts and better early-detection tools for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the leading cause of cancer-related death in patients with cirrhosis, and the third most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide.

17 Apr 2026

Healthy diets linked to higher lung cancer risk in younger non-smokers

A diet rich in fruit, vegetables and whole grains is generally recommended for better health and to lower the risk of cancer and other diseases.

17 Apr 2026

Synthetic biology approach boosts growth of implanted liver tissue

In patients developing end-stage liver disease, the damage has become too severe for the liver's normally extraordinary regenerative capacity to repair or compensate for it. Once this "point of no return" has been reached, the only option is an organ transplant.

17 Apr 2026

ACP recommends biennial mammography for women aged 50 to 74

New guidance from the American College of Physicians (ACP) says all asymptomatic, average-risk females ages 50 to 74 should receive biennial screening mammography for breast cancer.

17 Apr 2026

Nature-inspired vesicles offer new path for precision medicine therapies

A quiet revolution is underway in modern medicine: Drug development is aiming to move from managing disease to correcting it through RNA and gene-editing therapies.

17 Apr 2026

Gut bacteria predict melanoma recurrence risk after treatment

The specific mix of bacteria living in a person's gut can predict the chances that melanoma will recur after surgery and immunotherapy, a treatment that helps immune cells target cancer cells. This is according to a new study led by researchers from NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center.

17 Apr 2026

Researchers discover how cell membrane composition drives cancer proliferation

Cells are enveloped by a lipid membrane that gives them structure and provides a barrier between the cell and its environment.

17 Apr 2026

Scientists find unexpected immune pathways for mRNA cancer vaccines

The advent of mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

17 Apr 2026

New federal Medicaid rules require one month of work. Some states demand more.

Millions of people who apply for Medicaid in the coming years will have to prove they've been working, going to school, or volunteering for at least a month before they can gain or retain health insurance through the government program.

17 Apr 2026

Age shapes melanoma progression and immune response

Cancer risk increases with age and is often more aggressive and difficult to treat in older adults. However, fewer than 10% of mouse studies use aged animals, with most relying on mice roughly equivalent to humans in their early 20s.

17 Apr 2026

Women using GLP-1 drugs face higher weight loss stigma

In a new study exploring stigma associated with the use of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, women who lost weight using GLP-1 medications were judged more harshly than those who lost weight through diet and exercise, with negative reactions driven largely by beliefs that medication-assisted weight loss is a "shortcut."

17 Apr 2026

Childhood flu infection leaves lasting immune imprint

A study reveals how childhood flu infections impact long-term mortality risk, highlighting implications for vaccination and future outbreak management.

17 Apr 2026

Donor-derived dendritic cells teach the immune system to accept new livers

UPMC and University of Pittsburgh clinician-scientists have weaned and kept multiple liver transplantation patients off of all immunosuppressant drugs for more than three years through a first-in-human clinical trial of a unique "immune priming" therapy.

17 Apr 2026

Ultra-processed diets may harm muscle health

Ultra-processed food diets may impair muscle health, with MRI findings showing increased fat infiltration in individuals at risk for knee osteoarthritis.

17 Apr 2026

New imager separates UV and infrared light to find cancerous nodes

Researchers have developed a compact camera that captures ultraviolet, near-infrared and visible images using a single chip. Inspired by the multiwavelength vision capability of the mantis shrimp, the camera could help surgeons identify lymph nodes connected to a tumor and assess whether cancer has spread to them, making cancer surgery safer and less invasive.

17 Apr 2026

Concerns rise over breast cancer risk and gender-based efficacy of Ocrevus

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing a petition to revoke the approval of Roche's top-selling drug ocrelizumab (Ocrevus) for treating primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) - a form of MS thought to affect around 15 % of patients.

17 Apr 2026

New roadmap links liver cancer biology to immunotherapy and precision medicine

A new review from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona provides one of the clearest roadmaps to date for understanding and treating liver cancer, one of the deadliest cancers worldwide.

17 Apr 2026

Scientists discover BRCA links to head and neck cancer risks

An international group led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered associations between pathogenic variants of the BRCA 1 and 2 genes and four types of cancer. Published in ESMO Open, the findings expand the potential for personalized medicine to several cancer types that currently have limited treatment options and poor prognoses.

17 Apr 2026