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 Epidemiology

What is Cancer?

Cancer Symptoms

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer History

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer Research

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What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Pain Management

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Management

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Cancer Classification

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Prognosis

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Pain

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

What is Tumorigenesis?

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Living with Cancer Pain

Insights into Oncofertility

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

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

Targeted Cancer Therapies

CDK9 and Cancer

Cancer Glossary

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Secondary Brain Cancer

Secondary Lung Cancer

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

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

What Causes Cancer?

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Pediatric Cancer

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Latest Cancer News and Research

Attacks on healthcare surge in Ukraine

As Ukraine enters the fifth year of full-scale war, its people have endured the highest number of attacks on their health care in 2025 – increasing by nearly 20% compared to 2024.

24 Feb 2026

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Discover how Thermo Fisher is shaping the future of plant-based foods through texture innovation and cultural relevance.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific – Laboratory Products Division – Food & Beverage Quality Control 24 Feb 2026

Throwing cancer-driving proteins in the cellular trash

When cancer-driving proteins resist various treatments, Northwestern University scientists have uncovered a new solution. Don't fight them - throw them in the cellular trash.

24 Feb 2026

Colonoscopy and FIT at age 60 catch colorectal cancer earlier

The SCREESCO trial reveals that colorectal cancer screening at 60 enhances early diagnosis without affecting overall mortality or increasing long-term risks.

24 Feb 2026

Swiss centenarians show youthful blood protein profiles in aging study

In Switzerland, 0.02% of the population lives beyond the age of 100. Could there be biological characteristics associated with this exceptional longevity? As part of the "SWISS100" study, the first large-scale Swiss research project dedicated to centenarians, a team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) compared the blood profiles of centenarians with those of octogenarians, and then with those of individuals aged 30 to 60.

24 Feb 2026

Modified Clostridium sporogenes shows promise in targeting solid tumors

A research team led by the University of Waterloo is developing a novel tool to treat cancer by engineering hungry bacteria to literally eat tumors from the inside out.

24 Feb 2026

SwRI advances safer manufacturing of nerve agent antidotes

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) continues to expand its unique drug synthesis capabilities and expertise to advance the scalable manufacturing of safer antidotes to combat exposure to organophosphorus nerve agents (OPNAs) and pesticides.

24 Feb 2026

Assessing long-term cognitive risks in ependymoma survivors

A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital assessed cognitive and communication abilities in children treated for the brain tumor ependymoma to understand the impact of treatment better. They found that radiation was a significant contributor to hearing loss, a risk directly linked to cognitive health.

23 Feb 2026

New EANM award supports alpha radioligand therapy research

Applications are now open for the 2026 EANM Young Scientist Network Award. This new research award, supported by Advanced Accelerator Applications (a Novartis company), aims to accelerate innovative research in alpha radioligand therapy (α-RLT) in prostate cancer.

23 Feb 2026

Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center delivers Louisiana’s first TIL therapy for melanoma

Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center at The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center in New Orleans announces a milestone in advanced cancer treatment, as the first institution in Louisiana to provide an adult patient with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) therapy for advanced melanoma.

23 Feb 2026

Detecting the "scent" of ovarian cancer with AI

Using machine learning, an electronic nose can "smell" early signs of ovarian cancer in the blood. The method is precise and, according to the LiU researchers behind the study, it could eventually be used to find many different cancers. The study is published in the scientific journal Advanced intelligent systems.

23 Feb 2026

Study explains persistent schistosomiasis hotspots in China

A 13-year study led by the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz reveals why a deadly parasitic infection targeted for elimination in China persisted in some areas even after decades of control.

23 Feb 2026

WashU Medicine receives 80 million to study exceptional longevity

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an $80 million grant to continue research into the mysteries of exceptional longevity.

23 Feb 2026

Study finds microplastics in most prostate tumors

Small fragments of plastic were found in nine out of 10 patients with prostate cancer, and in higher levels inside tumors than in nearby noncancerous tissue, a new study finds.

23 Feb 2026

Rytvela lowers inflammation and improves newborn survival in preclinical study

New research shows that Rytvela, an anti-inflammatory drug candidate, decreased premature birth and infant mortality when administered after the onset of preterm labor in a preclinical mouse model.

23 Feb 2026

New 3D liver reconstructions show how cirrhosis reshapes organ architecture

Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians capture the spatial microstructure of multiple lobes of this multitasking organ.

23 Feb 2026

Mental health conditions post-cancer diagnosis linked to higher mortality risk

In a study of adults with cancer, those who developed a mental health condition within the first year after their cancer diagnosis had a higher likelihood of dying over the next few years.

23 Feb 2026

Syndex Bio unveils mcPCR technology at AGBT 2026 following $15.5 M seed financing

Syndex Bio, a biotechnology company advancing next‑generation molecular diagnostics, today announced the introduction of its proprietary mcPCR™ (methyl‑copying PCR) platform at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference in Orlando, Florida.

23 Feb 2026

As more Americans embrace anxiety treatment, MAHA derides medications

After a grueling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was anxious — not the manageable hum that had long been part of her life, but something deeper, more distracting.

23 Feb 2026