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.

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer History

Cancer Pain Management

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Targeted Cancer Therapies

CDK9 and Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

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Cancer Pain

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Secondary Brain Cancer

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

Cancer Epidemiology

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Secondary Lung Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Classification

Cancer Glossary

Cancer Research

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Prognosis

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Insights into Oncofertility

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Management

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

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

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Pathophysiology

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Pediatric Cancer

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

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

Cancer Diagnosis

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Symptoms

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

What is Cancer?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Latest Cancer News and Research

Plant-based fats improve long-term survival for prostate cancer patients

Men diagnosed with nonmetastatic prostate cancer can generally expect to live for many years after their diagnosis. However, cardiovascular disease and other cancers remain important threats to their long-term health.

2 Sep 2026

Harvard scientists discover entirely new gene regulation system in mammals

For decades, scientists have understood that each of the roughly 20,000 genes in the human body carries the instructions for a single kind of protein.

2 Sep 2026

Giving immunotherapy before surgery boosts brain tumor treatment success

A team from UNIGE and HUG has shown that administering cell immunotherapy before surgery to remove a brain tumor is significantly more effective than administering it afterwards.

2 Sep 2026

Bridging science and family story to understand schizophrenia origins

Twin studies have placed the heritability of schizophrenia at roughly eighty percent for decades. Concordance between identical twins, who share the entire genome, does not reach fifty percent. Both figures are well established, and they do not fit together comfortably.

2 Sep 2026

Nanoparticle flu vaccine design could pave way for broader protection

Influenza viruses constantly shapeshift to evade recognition by the immune system. This shapeshifting occurs in critical proteins like hemagglutinin (HA), which controls how the virus attaches to human cells before entering them.

2 Sep 2026

Alcohol-related liver cancer deaths were falling. Then the trend reversed during the COVID-19 pandemic

A global analysis of GBD 2023 data found that alcohol-attributable liver cancer mortality increased modestly from 1990 to 2023, while mortality from alcohol-attributable cirrhosis, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, and alcohol use disorders declined. Liver cancer mortality shifted from a pre-pandemic decline to an increase during 2020–2023, particularly among women, although the researchers cautioned that the ecological analysis cannot establish that pandemic-related changes caused the reversal.

1 Sep 2026

Cellular atlas offers clues to childhood Crohn’s treatment response

Researchers have created a detailed map of childhood Crohn's disease before and after treatment to help understand progression of the disease.

1 Sep 2026

Researchers identify a previously unknown mechanism that can drive cancer cachexia

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University, the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have identified a previously unknown mechanism that can drive cancer cachexia – a wasting process in the body that primarily affects muscle and fat tissue.

1 Sep 2026

Study links protein interaction to senescent cell survival

Senescent cells - cells that have stopped dividing but remain metabolically active - can accumulate with age and contribute to chronic inflammation and tissue dysfunction

1 Sep 2026

New brain atlas reveals insights into Huntington's, addiction, and other disorders

A region of the brain called the striatum is critical for many cognitive and motor functions, including decision-making, control of movement, habit formation, and processing of reward.

1 Sep 2026

New nondestructive imaging technique tracks immune cell health

When a patient is facing certain cancers or an immune condition, clinicians turn to their white blood cells for clues about the progression of both diseases and their treatments.

1 Sep 2026

Protein buildup mechanism shapes response to PROTAC drugs

The way cancer-causing proteins accumulate in tumours may influence how effectively a promising new generation of medicines can remove them, a study suggests.

1 Sep 2026

New tool amplifies and visualizes tiny protein changes

Imagine a brain teaser where the challenge is to spot the difference between two nearly identical sandcastles.

1 Sep 2026

UNC researcher wins major grant to study the role of endoplasmic reticulum in T-cell metabolism

Jessica Thaxton, PhD, MsCR, associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the UNC School of Medicine and co-leader of the Cancer Cell Biology Research Program at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a prestigious $700,000 grant from the Mathers Foundation to support research into the role of the endoplasmic reticulum in T-cell metabolism and cancer development.

1 Sep 2026

Antifungal medication may reduce inflammatory bowel disease symptoms

A commonly used systemic antifungal medication may help reduce symptoms in a subset of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by restoring a healthier gut microbiome, according to a preliminary study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

1 Sep 2026

Penn Medicine tests FLASH proton therapy for cancer patients

A new form of proton therapy-designed to deliver cancer-killing radiation therapy in less than a second, through fewer total sessions, with potentially less risk of damaging side effects-is now being tested in a Phase I clinical trial at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

1 Sep 2026

Study reveals how melanoma weakens skin cell immune defenses

Cancers actively remodel their surrounding cells and tissues to create a microenvironment that favors their growth, survival, and spread.

1 Sep 2026

New scLS algorithm advances gene expression trajectory analysis

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a method to measure gene expression of individual cells, allowing observation of various cellular processes, including cell differentiation, the cell cycle, and stimulus-response for each unique cell instead of averaging across millions of cells.

1 Sep 2026

Immunotherapy shows potential for treating rising gynecological tumors

Gynecological tumors, including cervical cancer (CC), endometrial cancer (EC), and ovarian cancer (OC), represent a significant global health burden for women.

1 Sep 2026