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.

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer plasticity allows tumor cells to change their identity, evade therapies, and adapt to environmental pressures, contributing to treatment resistance and metastasis. New research is targeting this adaptability through epigenetic drugs, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and strategies to limit phenotypic switching.

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Targeted Cancer Therapies

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Epidemiology

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Living with Cancer Pain

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

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Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Cancer Research

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

Pediatric Cancer

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

What Causes Cancer?

CDK9 and Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Cancer Glossary

Cancer Classification

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Symptoms

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Prognosis

Secondary Lung Cancer

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

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Pain

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Secondary Brain Cancer

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

What is Cancer?

Cancer Management

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Pathophysiology

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What is Tumorigenesis?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer History

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Insights into Oncofertility

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Latest Cancer News and Research

New method can help better assess precision genome editing technology

Scientists and physicians can better assess precision genome editing technology using a new method made public today by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Significant amounts of time and resources spent improving CRISPR gene editing technology focus on identifying small off-target sites that pose a safety risk, which is also technically challenging.

2 Jan 2026

Endometrium-free closure technique for C-section may help lower the risk of long-term complications

As cesarean delivery (C-section) rates continue to rise worldwide, experts at NYU Langone Health are highlighting a surgical technique that may help lower the risk of long-term complications.

2 Jan 2026

A mathematical solution for precise control of cellular “noise”

Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the answer appears to lie not in genetic differences, but in biological noise - random fluctuations in molecular activity that occur even among genetically identical cells.

2 Jan 2026

Elevated bacteria levels in tumors weaken immune response, studies show

Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered that bacteria inside cancerous tumors may be key to understanding why immunotherapy works for some patients but not others.

2 Jan 2026

New therapeutic approach converts immune cells inside tumors into anticancer cell therapies

Within tumors in the human body, there are immune cells (macrophages) capable of fighting cancer, but they have been unable to perform their roles properly due to suppression by the tumor.

2 Jan 2026

Newly identified rare genetic variant reduces the risk of leukemia

A newly identified and rare genetic variant slows the growth of mutated blood stem cells, researchers report, and it reduces the risk of leukemia.

2 Jan 2026

First human 'lung-on-chip' model developed using stem cells from a single donor

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human 'lung-on-chip' model using stem cells taken from only one person.

2 Jan 2026

Study uncovers how aggressive breast cancer cells escape immune defenses

With a new study in the journal Science Bulletin, researchers at Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University have discovered a new way that aggressive breast cancer cells escape the immune defenses.

1 Jan 2026

New computational method reconstructs how cells decide their fate

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct the complex dynamics of how cells decide their fate.

30 Dec 2025

Silica nanomatrix enhances immunotherapy for solid tumors

Cancer has long remained a leading cause of death worldwide and in Hong Kong, accounting for 30% of all disease-related deaths in the city in 2025. While chemotherapy remains a major treatment modality, its side effects and the risk of relapse challenges for patients.

30 Dec 2025

Targeting CSE enzyme may offer new pathways for Alzheimer’s treatment

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say results of a new National Institutes of Health-funded study are advancing efforts to exploit a new target for Alzheimer's disease: a protein that manufactures an important gas in the brain.

30 Dec 2025

Dihydrotanshinone I induces autophagic cell death in ovarian cancer

A recent study published in Engineering has shed light on the potential therapeutic effects of dihydrotanshinone I (DHT), a compound derived from the traditional Chinese herb Salvia miltiorrhiza, on ovarian cancer.

30 Dec 2025

Minimal residual disease monitoring can transform breast cancer care

Despite major therapeutic advances, breast cancer remains prone to recurrence, particularly in patients with early-stage disease who appear disease-free after treatment.

30 Dec 2025

Trial evaluates a traditional Chinese herbal formula for diabetic kidney disease with macroalbuminuria

Diabetic kidney disease affects a growing proportion of people with diabetes and remains the leading cause of end-stage renal disease.

30 Dec 2025

Epigenetic plasticity in germinal center B cells may help explain lymphoma origins

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During their preparation for this battle, B cells transiently revert to a more flexible, or plastic, stem-cell-like state in the lymph nodes, according to a new preclinical study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

30 Dec 2025