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 Pathophysiology

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Management

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Living with Cancer Pain

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Pain

Myc Mutations and Cancer

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Cancer Research

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Pain Management

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Prognosis

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

Pediatric Cancer

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

What is Cancer?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

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

CDK9 and Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Diagnosis

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What Causes Cancer?

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Insights into Oncofertility

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

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Cancer History

What is Tumorigenesis?

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Epidemiology

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Glossary

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Classification

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Secondary Lung Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Latest Cancer News and Research

New hybrid approach intensifies treatment for liver tumor metastases

Combining intraarterial and intravenous administration of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) can selectively intensify treatment for liver-dominant metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) while still effectively delivering treatment throughout the whole body.

13 Nov 2026

Drug combination shows long-term survival in advanced thymic cancer

Final results from the phase 2 PECATI clinical trial demonstrate encouraging long-term survival outcomes with the combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab in patients with previously treated advanced B3-thymoma and thymic carcinoma.

13 Nov 2026

Study analyzes shifting pancreatic cancer burdens in US and China

Pancreatic cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, accounting for about 4.8% of cancer deaths, with an overall 5-year survival of approximately 12%.

13 Nov 2026

University of Michigan dashboard tracks public transit accessibility for people with disabilities

A new national database developed at the University of Michigan shows that none of the top 99 federally funded public transportation systems in the United States are easy for people with disabilities to use in four key areas of accommodation and accessibility.

13 Nov 2026

New prostate cancer guidelines provide concrete roadmap for patient screening

For the first time since 2010, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has updated its prostate cancer screening guidelines, offering specific, age-based recommendations for PSA blood tests and emphasizing secondary testing, like MRIs, before performing biopsies.

13 Nov 2026

Your plant-based dairy swaps could leave you short on iodine

A UK dietary model links dairy reduction to greater iodine inadequacy, highlighting iodized bread and fortified plant-based alternatives as policy options.

13 Nov 2026

Broad genomic sequencing extends survival in advanced lung cancer patients

New research in the November 2026 issue of JNCCN-Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network found that patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) lived longer when they received broad-based genomic sequencing (BGS)-testing a large panel of dozens or hundreds of genes at once-before starting treatment, compared with patients who received more limited biomarker testing of just one or two genes.

13 Nov 2026

DNA methylation profiling stratifies recurrence risk in low-grade endometrial cancer

Molecular diagnostic approaches are expanding what information is available for clinicians and laboratory professionals, including uncovering antimicrobial resistance, identifying pathogens missed by conventional methods, revealing cancer recurrence risks and characterizing complex tumor biology.

13 Nov 2026

Single-cell spatial atlas profiles 850,000 cells across breast cancer progression

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have created one of the most detailed maps to date of the cell environment surrounding ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), the most common form of preinvasive, or stage 0, breast cancer.

13 Nov 2026

New surgical approaches aim to improve stomach cancer outcomes

Sometimes innovation in cancer care means developing something entirely new. Other times, it means returning to an old idea with the knowledge and tools to make it work better.

12 Nov 2026

Study highlights healthcare barriers facing volunteer firefighters in Texas

In recent years, several organizations have recognized the firefighting profession's unique and substantial work-related health hazards, including cancers, heart disease, chronic respiratory illnesses and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

12 Nov 2026

Scientists unveil first comprehensive atlas of basal ganglia cell types

Capturing a complete picture of what causes brain diseases from schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease to addiction has long remained a challenge to scientists.

12 Nov 2026

Road improvements could expand access to cancer care in Rwanda

While studying health systems around the world during a yearlong fellowship, Abel Sapirstein traveled to northern Rwanda to visit Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence, at the time, the country's only publicly accessible facility to offer comprehensive oncology services.

12 Nov 2026

Scientists identify metabolic pathway driving lung cancer lymph node metastasis

Metabolic reprogramming plays a critical role in shaping the adaptive capabilities of malignant cells during dissemination.

12 Nov 2026

New light-based tool reveals how cells regulate autophagy

Inside each cell is a dynamic world of molecules and chemicals, signals and receivers, and construction and destruction.

12 Nov 2026

A 43-gram sugar gap separates adults who check food labels from those who rarely do

A nationally representative US study of 9,416 children and adults found that frequent nutrition label users consumed an average of 42.8 g less added sugar daily among adults and 14.5 g less among children compared with infrequent users. The findings suggest an association between checking nutrition labels and lower added sugar intake, although the observational study could not establish causation.

12 Nov 2026

A study of 844,000 adults reveals what BMI misses about obesity

A multinational study of 844,108 adults found that combining BMI with waist measurements improved obesity classification and identified mortality risks that BMI alone could miss. Clinical obesity was associated with a 69% higher all-cause mortality hazard, compared with 19% for preclinical obesity, while most participants with preclinical obesity were not estimated to progress to clinical obesity during long-term follow-up.

12 Nov 2026