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.

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer Symptoms

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer Pain

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

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Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer History

Living with Cancer Pain

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Management

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Prognosis

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Cancer Glossary

What is Tumorigenesis?

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer Research

Myc Mutations and Cancer

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

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What Causes Cancer?

CDK9 and Cancer

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Classification

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Cancer Diagnosis

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Insights into Oncofertility

Cancer Pain Management

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Pediatric Cancer

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

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

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

What is Cancer?

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Latest Cancer News and Research

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

Cannabis legalization may lead to a decline in daily opioid use

Legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use may lead to a decline in daily opioid use among people who inject drugs in the United States, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher (BUSPH).

9 Feb 2026

New nanoparticle separation method boosts biotech and cancer research

In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the University of Oulu have now developed a new method that improves particle separation and purification.

9 Feb 2026

Menstrual blood HPV testing accurately detects cervical precancer

A study reveals menstrual blood can effectively screen for HPV, matching clinician-collected samples in accuracy, enhancing cervical cancer detection globally.

9 Feb 2026

Historical redlining's impact on breast cancer survival changes over time

Historical redlining, a 1930s–1960s residential segregation policy, has been linked to shorter survival time in people with breast cancer.

9 Feb 2026

Mesothelial cells enable rapid invasion and spread of ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer kills more women than any other gynecological cancer. Most patients receive their diagnosis only after the disease spreads throughout the abdomen.

7 Feb 2026

Cholesterol transporter ABCA1 boosts macrophage-driven cancer immunity

In recent years, cancer researchers have made major breakthroughs by using the body's immune system to fight cancer. One of the most promising approaches, known as immune checkpoint blockade, works by releasing molecular "brakes" on T cells.

7 Feb 2026

Tumor-targeted chimeric drug increases efficacy and limits side effects

Wistar scientists have combined a promising cancer therapy with a molecule that targets tumors to treat cancer more effectively.

7 Feb 2026

American women show varied preferences for in-clinic versus at-home cervical cancer screening

American women now have the option of screening for cervical cancer at home, using newly approved self-collection tools.

7 Feb 2026

Water pressure mechanism enables fast amoeboid cancer cell movement

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, marked by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells.

7 Feb 2026

RNA micelles enable targeted chemotherapy without immune toxicity

A new study in mice hints at the potential to use tiny particles made with RNA molecules to deliver chemotherapy drugs and other therapies directly to tumors, killing cancer cells without generating an immune response or toxicity-related side effects.

7 Feb 2026

Bioadhesive patches target remaining glioblastoma cells after surgery

Glioblastoma is the most prevalent and aggressive brain tumor. It proliferates very rapidly, is highly invasive, and there is currently no treatment capable of halting its progression or curing it, which means life expectancy after diagnosis is very short.

6 Feb 2026

Blocking p300 restores chemotherapy sensitivity in resistant tumors

Overcoming tumor resistance to chemotherapy drugs has long been a challenge for oncology clinicians and researchers.

6 Feb 2026

New analysis reveals hidden complexity in the vaginal microbiome

For decades, gynecological tests have relied on a simplified view of the vaginal microbiome, categorizing bacteria as either "good" or "bad."

6 Feb 2026

Senescent neutrophils promote tumor survival across cancer types

Renowned as first responders to threatening infections, neutrophils also happen to feature prominently in the microenvironment of tumors, where they and other immune cells play opposing and frequently mutable roles in promoting-or resisting-cancer progression.

6 Feb 2026

European collaboration transforms immune cell data into cancer biomarkers

World Cancer Day, marked on 4 February, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of cancer, and to encouraging its prevention, detection and treatment.

6 Feb 2026

Triple negative breast cancer cells use new strategy to boost metastatic ability

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a strategy that triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells use to boost their ability to metastasize, or spread to other organs.

6 Feb 2026