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 is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

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

What is Tumorigenesis?

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Cancer Research

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

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Targeted Cancer Therapies

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer Prognosis

Cancer Management

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Classification

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Cancer Pathophysiology

CDK9 and Cancer

What is Cancer?

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Symptoms

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Glossary

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

Cancer Epidemiology

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Secondary Brain Cancer

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Secondary Lung Cancer

Insights into Oncofertility

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

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

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Pain

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

What Causes Cancer?

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer History

Living with Cancer Pain

Latest Cancer News and Research

Celastrol reduces cholestatic liver injury by inhibiting specific protein

Cholestasis occurs when bile formation, secretion, or flow is impaired, causing toxic bile acids to accumulate and trigger inflammation and liver-cell damage.

17 Sep 2026

Wildfire smoke poses greater health risks than other pollution

As climate change drives more frequent and intense wildfires, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have published two large-scale studies showing that wildfire smoke may pose greater health risks than other sources of air pollution, with higher risks of hospitalization for cardiovascular and respiratory disease and poorer survival among patients with lung cancer.

17 Sep 2026

New indicators could accelerate development of anti-aging drugs

Twelve candidate indicators, based on studies in mice, could make developing anti-aging interventions faster-while offering new insights into age-related diseases.

17 Sep 2026

Existing anti-seizure drug slows the growth of diffuse midline gliomas

An existing anti-seizure drug slows the growth of a devastating group of childhood cancers, new Stanford Medicine-led research has shown.

17 Sep 2026

Study identifies key factors in breast cancer survivors' sexual recovery

Sexual wellbeing can often be overlooked during a woman's recovery from breast cancer with many continuing to experience significant sexual and intimacy challenges long after treatment ends.

17 Sep 2026

Salk scientists demonstrate B cells directly enhance killer T cell function

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, according to a 2026 Cancer Research Institute report. Cancer biologists are keenly aware of this statistic, as it drives them to innovations that revolutionize cancer care-innovations like immunotherapy.

17 Sep 2026

High estrogen alters brain circuit causing temporary memory impairment during pregnancy

Many women usually say the same thing during pregnancy: they walk into a room and forget why, misplace their keys or struggle to follow a conversation.

17 Sep 2026

Mindfulness and tai chi practices help cancer survivors manage symptoms

The cancer journey for many patients doesn’t end after treatment. Many live with long-term side effects that affect their ability to sleep and cause pain, impacting daily life.

16 Sep 2026

Your walking pattern may reveal more about anxiety and depression than you think

Researchers used smartphone and wearable accelerometers to examine how everyday movement patterns relate to anxiety and depression symptoms in middle-aged adults. Phone-derived gait states differed with daily symptom scores, while lower wrist movement was linked to greater anxiety in a small subsample, supporting further study of passive movement sensing for mental health monitoring.

16 Sep 2026

Gambling disorder emergency visits increase following sports betting legalization

Emergency department (ED) visits for gambling disorders doubled following the legalization of single-event sports betting and expansion of Ontario's online gambling market, according to a new study from ICES. The increase was observed predominantly among young men.

16 Sep 2026

New drug molecule reshapes protein to improve cancer target selectivity

A square peg doesn't fit a round hole. But what if the peg could change the shape of the hole?

16 Sep 2026

Machine learning improves cancer cell detection through light scattering

Cytological tests are a common method of screening cancer cells from stained cell samples. Using a microscope, pathologists examine cells collected from bodily fluids, looking for tell-tale signs of malignancy like enlarged nuclei or abnormal cell shapes.

16 Sep 2026

Fermented dairy was linked to lower mortality, but the pattern shifted at higher intakes

Analysis of 37,366 US adults found that fermented dairy consumption was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, with consumers showing adjusted hazards 18% and 20% lower, respectively, than non-consumers. Dose-response analyses indicated that the inverse association was concentrated at intakes below about 150 grams per day, while the observational study could not establish causality.

16 Sep 2026