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.

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Cancer Pathophysiology

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

What is Cancer?

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

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Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cured Meats, Nitrates, and Cancer Risk: Why Food Source and Processing Matter

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Secondary Lung Cancer

What is Immunochemotherapy?

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer History

Cancer Diagnosis

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Living with Cancer Pain

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer Pain

Secondary Brain Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Research

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Management

Cancer Classification

Targeted Cancer Therapies

CDK9 and Cancer

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Symptoms

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

Insights into Oncofertility

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

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

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Prognosis

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer Glossary

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Epidemiology

Latest Cancer News and Research

Cellular senescence drives progression of spinal disc degeneration and pain

A growing body of scientific insight is drawing attention to cellular senescence as a central force in the progression of intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD), a leading contributor to chronic low back pain worldwide.

5 Aug 2026

Tumor-secreted protein makes lung blood vessels leaky to promote metastasis

A protein secreted by common cancer types makes blood vessels leakier to allow metastatic tumors to form in the lungs, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

5 Aug 2026

KCNE gene family emerges as a promising target for future precision medicine

A growing understanding of the KCNE gene family is reshaping how scientists view the regulation of electrical signaling across the human body, highlighting its essential role in maintaining normal physiological function and its connection to a wide range of diseases.

5 Aug 2026

Targeted dendritic cell vaccines emerge as a major step forward in cancer immunotherapy

A major step forward in cancer immunotherapy is emerging through the growing development of dendritic cell vaccines, a highly targeted approach designed to harness the body's own immune system to fight tumors.

5 Aug 2026

Review highlights the importance of miR-23b in shaping cancer development and progression

A new review highlights the growing importance of miR-23b, a small but powerful regulator of gene expression, in shaping the development and progression of a wide range of cancers.

5 Aug 2026

Versatile receptor protein plays critical role in regulating tissue repair

A comprehensive new review highlights the expanding importance of Lgr6, a member of the G protein-coupled receptor family, as a critical regulator of tissue homeostasis, injury repair, and disease development across multiple organ systems.

5 Aug 2026

Specialized selenoproteins play critical role in regulating cellular health

A new review highlights the remarkable importance of selenoproteins, a specialized group of molecules that, despite their small size, play a decisive role in shaping cellular fate and maintaining biological balance.

5 Aug 2026

Obscure X chromosome protein emerges as key driver in several cancers

A little-known protein encoded on the X chromosome is attracting growing attention for its potential role in cancer development and treatment.

5 Aug 2026

Intertwined cellular processes reshape understanding of diabetes

A deeper understanding of how key cellular processes interact is reshaping perspectives on diabetes and its wide-ranging complications.

5 Aug 2026

Scientists unmask immune cells that supercharge the fight against cancer

A little‑known group of hard-to-find immune cells could help transform cancer treatment, scientists at the University of Manchester’s Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have found.

5 Aug 2026

Cancer cells exploit liver fat to evade immune system destruction

Liver metastases are among the most common and deadly forms of cancer spread. Now, researchers at VIB and KU Leuven, with international collaborators, have discovered how cancer cells exploit a fatty acid abundant in the liver to evade destruction by the immune system.

5 Aug 2026

Novel drug puts cancer cells under extreme metabolic stress

Cancer cells have a voracious appetite for sugar-using it to fuel their rapid growth. This is why many scientists have tried to develop drugs that block cancer cells' metabolism by cutting off their sugar supply.

5 Aug 2026

The healthiest super-agers may have one thing in common: stable cognition

A 10-year study of 1,003 older adults linked cognitive super-aging to fewer emergency visits, unplanned hospital admissions, delirium episodes, dementia diagnoses, and residential aged care placements. Maintaining cognitive performance over time showed the strongest overall association with favorable health outcomes and was linked to a 46% lower mortality risk.

5 Aug 2026

NIH funds smartphone platform to improve driving safety for teens

Dr. Jeffrey Keller, Hibernia National Bank/Edward G. Schleider Endowed Chair at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and Sara Seifert, president of Minnesota HealthSolutions, have received a new National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to develop an innovative digital health platform that will help parents support teenagers with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as they learn to drive.

4 Aug 2026

Tadalafil may increase glaucoma risk in men with enlarged prostates

An erectile dysfunction drug that is also used to treat symptoms like sudden urgency and frequency, which are associated with an enlarged prostate in men, may heighten the risk of the serious eye condition, glaucoma, finds a large comparative study published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

4 Aug 2026

Long-term study highlights ongoing care needs among former CAMHS patients

Four in ten children who attend Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Scotland go on to attend specialist psychiatric services as adults, according to new research.

4 Aug 2026

NIH funds research to explore the role of thymulin in inflammaging and cancer

As we age, chronic inflammation-or "inflammaging"-increases throughout the body and weakens our ability to fight cancer.

4 Aug 2026

Korean study finds no overall childhood cancer link with maternal diabetes

Researchers followed 549,851 Korean children and found no statistically significant association between maternal diabetes and overall childhood cancer. The analysis linked maternal diabetes to an 81% higher relative risk of urinary tract cancer, but the absolute difference was only 37 additional cases per 100,000 offspring.

4 Aug 2026

Breast cancer co-opts the immune system to attract nerves that fuel tumor growth

New research from the University of Oklahoma demonstrates how an aggressive form of breast cancer co-opts the body's own immune system to attract nerves that fuel tumor growth.

4 Aug 2026

Malaria infection causes permanent damage to the spleen immune cells

Macrophages formed in the bone marrow can only assume the function of embryonal phagocytes, or "scavenger cells," to a certain degree according to a study by the University of Bonn and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne.

4 Aug 2026