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?

Cancer History

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer Management

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Secondary Lung Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Cancer Epidemiology

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Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

What is Cancer?

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

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Classification

Pediatric Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cancer Symptoms

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Pain

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Pain Management

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Diagnosis

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

CDK9 and Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Cancer Prognosis

Targeted Cancer Therapies

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Glossary

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Research

Insights into Oncofertility

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

Cancer Pathophysiology

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Secondary Brain Cancer

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Latest Cancer News and Research

Gut microbes emerge as potential players in estrogen-driven cancers

A new review maps how the endocrine-microbiome axis expands the estrobolome concept, showing that gut microbes may alter estrogen recycling, produce hormone-like metabolites, and shape inflammation and tissue environments in hormone-driven cancers. Human evidence remains mostly associative, so the authors call for causal models, longitudinal multi-omics, multi-kingdom profiling, and sex-stratified studies before microbiome-guided cancer strategies enter routine care.

25 Jun 2026

Lipid nanoparticles enhance immune response against lung cancer

Researchers at the University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy have developed a new strategy that helps the immune system recognize and attack lung cancer tumors more effectively.

25 Jun 2026

Common drug shows promise in preventing post-surgical liver failure

A multi-center study, co-led by researchers at Mayo Clinic and Michigan State University, found that patients who received tranexamic acid during liver surgery were three times less likely to develop post-hepatectomy liver failure than patients who received a placebo.

25 Jun 2026

Iron overload gradually increases neurons' vulnerability to neurodegeneration

Neurodegenerative diseases affect tens of millions of people worldwide. Among these, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases are the most common; in the United States alone, the Alzheimer's Disease Association and Parkinson's Foundation report roughly 7 million people with Alzheimer's and another million with Parkinson's.

25 Jun 2026

Opposing protein pathways control skin regeneration and disease development

Two proteins with opposing functions orchestrate the development and maintenance of healthy skin, Stanford Medicine researchers have found.

25 Jun 2026

Scientists find a universal gut microbiome pattern linked to colorectal cancer

Researchers analyzed 6,779 stool microbiome profiles and 906 tissue samples to identify a colorectal cancer microbial signature that remained consistent across age groups, populations, and sequencing methods. The signature aligned with tumor-resident microbes, showed weaker detection for adenomas, and was inversely associated with dietary fiber intake.

25 Jun 2026

Researchers develop novel strategy to selectively target tumor microenvironments

A new collaborative study reports the discovery and application of a novel therapeutic strategy to selectively target EGFR and other kinases with controlled release in tumor microenvironments to improve therapeutic efficacy, with promising results.

25 Jun 2026

Study uncovers mechanism driving metastasis in aggressive gastric cancer

A study recently published in Current Molecular Pharmacology has uncovered a novel mechanism by which the long non‑coding RNA PVT1 and the translation initiation factor EIF4A1 cooperate to drive gastric cancer metastasis.

25 Jun 2026

Peacemaker immune cells offer new hope for restoring immune tolerance

'Peacemaker' immune cells could help treat diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to neurodegeneration by restoring immune tolerance, according to a new paper in Frontiers in Science.

25 Jun 2026

Scientists uncover hidden step in how the immune system prepares to fight cancer

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have uncovered a previously hidden step in how the immune system prepares to fight cancer, a discovery that could help scientists develop more effective and longer-lasting cancer immunotherapies.

25 Jun 2026

Natural bioactive compounds target miR-29a molecule to prevent cancer development

A study published in Current Molecular Pharmacology provides a comprehensive analysis of microRNA-29a (miR-29a) as a pivotal regulator in cancer development, and examines how natural bioactive compounds may offer a promising strategy for cancer prevention by modulating its expression.

25 Jun 2026

AI-driven approach identifies promising new target for CAR T cell therapy

Leading CAR T cell therapy researchers have developed a human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence (AI) framework that firmly centers scientists' expertise to find viable target antigens for CAR T cell therapy.

25 Jun 2026

Chronic stress helps tumors evade immune attack through gut microbes

Chronic psychological stress can help tumors evade immune attack through a chain of molecular events involving gut bacteria and viruses within those bacteria, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

25 Jun 2026

Targeting metabolic pathways could prevent relapse in KRAS-mutant cancers

Our cells rely on tightly regulated signaling pathways to control when they grow, divide, and survive. When these regulatory systems are disrupted, cells can acquire the ability to grow uncontrollably and become cancerous.

25 Jun 2026

Aston University receives funding to develop unique cancer-fighting 'magnetobots'

Aston University has been awarded €1.2m through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Staff Exchanges program for a project bringing together 18 partner organizations to develop unique cancer-fighting 'magnetobots'.

25 Jun 2026

Strategic healthcare interventions bring Japan close to eliminating hepatitis

Hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) are viral infections that can lead to health conditions such as cirrhosis, cancer, and potentially death if unmanaged. HBV can be transmitted through sexual contact, blood exposure, and mother-to-child transmission, while HCV is primarily transmitted through blood-to-blood contact.

25 Jun 2026

New diagnostic platform enables automated HER2 scoring of breast cancer tissue samples

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have developed a compact, cost-effective diagnostic platform combining lensfree holography and deep learning for automated HER2 scoring of breast cancer tissue samples.

25 Jun 2026

New biomarkers identify trauma patients at risk for chronic critical illness

New research, published in The Journal of Immunology, identified biomarkers of a distinct immune profile that could be used to identify patients at risk for chronic critical illness (CCI) upon admittance to the intensive-care unit (ICU) after traumatic injury.

25 Jun 2026

Scientists map genetic changes controlling the immune sensor STING

The immune system depends on molecular alarms that detect danger inside cells. One of these alarms is STING, short for "stimulator of interferon genes".

24 Jun 2026

Immune cells drive abnormal joint tissue growth in rheumatoid arthritis

Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have identified a specialized population of immune cells that play a central role in driving abnormal tissue growth in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), offering new insight into disease progression and potential treatment strategies.

24 Jun 2026