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 the Tumor Microenvironment?

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer History

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

CDK9 and Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Management

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The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Research

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Pain

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Cancer Diagnosis

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

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Classification

Cancer Prognosis

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

What Causes Cancer?

Pediatric Cancer

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

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

Secondary Brain Cancer

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Cancer Pathophysiology

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Cancer Epidemiology

What is Cancer?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Insights into Oncofertility

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Secondary Lung Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

What is Tumorigenesis?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Glossary

Latest Cancer News and Research

University of Missouri launches first on-campus radiopharmaceutical clinical trial

In a major leap for cancer care at the University of Missouri, the School of Medicine and MU Health Care have launched their first clinical trial using a leading-edge therapy manufactured on campus at the university's research reactor.

10 Feb 2026

Study reveals how inherited genetic abnormalities raise Barrett’s esophagus risk

Case Western Reserve University researchers have made a significant breakthrough in understanding Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous condition that dramatically increases the risk of developing esophageal adenocarcinoma, one of the fastest-spreading and deadliest forms of cancer.

10 Feb 2026

Dual targeting strategy suppresses pancreatic cancer cell growth

A new research paper was published in Volume 13 of Oncoscience on January 28, 2026, titled "Dual targeting of oncogenic microtubules and mitochondria in PDAC."

10 Feb 2026

MHC class II marks stronger immune response and longer survival in ovarian cancer

A new study sheds light on why some patients with the most aggressive form of ovarian cancer respond better to treatment than others.

10 Feb 2026

Choroid plexus enlargement in Long COVID signals cognitive risk

The increased size of, and lesser blood supply to, a key brain structure in patients with Long COVID tracks with known blood markers of Alzheimer's disease and greater levels of dementia, a new study finds.

10 Feb 2026

New genetic model reveals role of keratin 8 in colorectal cancer development

Researchers at Åbo Akademi University have identified a new molecular change in patients with colorectal cancer and developed a genetic disease model that forms tumors in the large intestine, resembling those seen in patients.

10 Feb 2026

Mindfulness enables unsedated endoscopy with higher patient satisfaction

A new study has shown that mindfulness helps patients to relax during an endoscopy, allowing doctors to carry out detailed examinations without the need for sedation or general anesthesia.

10 Feb 2026

US cancer institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells’

The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation's second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official.

10 Feb 2026

Obamacare sign-ups drop, but the extent won’t be clear for months

More Americans than expected enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for this year, after premium subsidies were dramatically cut — but it remains to be seen whether they’ll keep the coverage as their costs mount.

10 Feb 2026

SPT Labtech and Bellbrook Labs introduce high-throughput screening platform for cancer research

SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life sciences, and BellBrook Labs, a pioneer in high-throughput screening (HTS) assay tools, today announced a collaboration to advance cancer research.

9 Feb 2026

New spatial omics platform advances biomedical research in Spain

Spatial omics is a new generation of technologies that allow scientists to study cells in their original location within tissues (without isolating or moving them from their environment).

9 Feb 2026

Childhood cancer survival varies by tumor stage at diagnosis

A major study by UCL and Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan (INT) researchers has for the first time shown in detail how far children's cancer has spread at diagnosis in a way that can be compared between countries.

9 Feb 2026

FDA label update expands CAR T access for primary CNS lymphoma

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-led research helped drive an FDA label update for axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta) that removes a prior exclusion for patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma, a rare and aggressive lymphoma of the brain and spinal cord.

9 Feb 2026

Newly identified protein interaction fine-tunes cellular stress responses

Cornell researchers have discovered a new way cells regulate how they respond to stress, identifying an interaction between two proteins that helps keep a critical cellular recycling system in balance.

9 Feb 2026

Engineered CAR-T cells reduce Alzheimer’s plaques in mice

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, a type of immunotherapy that leverages the immune system to combat diseases, is a powerful treatment option for certain cancers.

9 Feb 2026

Chronic brain compression triggers neuron death through multiple pathways

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord.

9 Feb 2026

New analysis asks if alcohol guidance needs stronger trials to settle the health debate

The viewpoint reviews conflicting evidence on alcohol consumption, highlighting discrepancies between observational studies, genetic analyses, and public health guidance. It concludes that large randomized trials comparing alcohol moderation versus cessation are needed to clarify long-term health effects.

9 Feb 2026

Nervous system actively promotes pre-cancerous pancreatic lesions

Pancreatic cancer has a lot of nerve. Notoriously tricky to detect, the disease also often resists traditional therapy. So, researchers are urgently looking for new ways to disrupt tumor formation.

9 Feb 2026

PSMA PET/CT scans may predict prostate cancer recurrence, guide treatment

New research in the February 2026 issue of JNCCN-Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network found that incorporating information from prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT scans may be able to predict progression-free survival (PFS) and guide treatment planning in patients with rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels following removal of the prostate.

9 Feb 2026

IRF7 reshapes the behavior of vascular smooth muscle cells during atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis underlies most heart attacks and strokes and is now recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease rather than a simple disorder of cholesterol deposition.

9 Feb 2026