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.

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

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

CDK9 and Cancer

What is Cancer?

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Insights into Oncofertility

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

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

Cancer Pain Management

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

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TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer History

Pediatric Cancer

Secondary Lung Cancer

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Living with Cancer Pain

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Glossary

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Epidemiology

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Prognosis

Myc Mutations and Cancer

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

Cancer Symptoms

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

What Causes Cancer?

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Pain

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Research

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Diagnosis

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Cancer Management

Cancer Classification

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Latest Cancer News and Research

UiA research project develops mobile app to combat world’s most neglected tropical diseases

A research project at UiA is working to combat one of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases. A mobile app has now been developed to train healthcare workers in Africa to detect the disease.

14 Aug 2026

Würzburg researchers discover alternative approach to preventing thrombosis

Glycoprotein VI, or GPVI for short, is a surface receptor found exclusively on platelets and their precursor cells, megakaryocytes in the bone marrow.

14 Aug 2026

AI-based "tissue clocks" measure the biological age of human organs

AI-based "tissue clocks" can estimate the biological age of human organs from histological images, researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine (LBI-NetMed) at the University of Vienna showed.

14 Aug 2026

New microscope tracks electrical activity across the brain on the scale of milliseconds

Within the brain, neurons compute by generating electrical impulses. These signals travel throughout neurons, which are in turn connected in vast networks that control brain functions such as sensory perception, memory formation, and control of movement.

14 Aug 2026

Outfitting cells in "invisibility cloaks" could offer a novel approach to treating diabetes

Outfitting cells in "invisibility cloaks" may offer an easier, less damaging treatment pathway for people with diabetes undergoing cell therapy, according to researchers at Penn State.

14 Aug 2026

Salk scientists use DNA origami to track molecular movements

Scientists often describe life as a series of chemical reactions. Pallav Kosuri, PhD, describes life as movement. Chemical reactions are how you drive the movement of atoms, proteins, cells, and bodies-without movement, there is no life.

14 Aug 2026

New method enables more precise labeling of protein-protein interactions in cancer-specific cells

Using a photochemically driven labeling technique, a Cornell University-led research group has devised a strategy for capturing cancer-specific protein-to-protein interactions, which could one day spawn targeted therapies for prostate, small-cell lung, pancreatic and other deadly forms of the disease.

14 Aug 2026

Weizmann study reveals how DNA repair enzymes choose targets

When a wound does not heal properly, it leaves a scar. Similarly, mutations – which are permanent changes to genetic code – are often the result of damaged DNA that has not been properly repaired.

14 Aug 2026

Meat, stress and risk-taking: what 38 experiments reveal about masculinity threat

Experimental evidence suggests that masculinity threat can push some men toward health-risk behaviors, with the clearest and most consistent effects seen in meat-related food choices. Across 38 experiments, effects on stress, fitness, risk-taking, and relationships were mixed or limited, while individual beliefs about masculinity shaped how men responded.

14 Aug 2026

Ultrasound-guided SHIFTERS could expand CAR-T therapy for solid tumors

For more than a decade, CAR-T cell therapy has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in cancer medicine.

13 Aug 2026

Study uncovers hidden switch that helps cancer cells to evade immune detection

Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps cancer cells evade detection by the body's immune system.

13 Aug 2026

Regional chemotherapy differences may impact survival among older breast cancer patients

The proportion of women with early breast cancer who receive chemotherapy varies significantly across different regions of Sweden.

13 Aug 2026

Most veterans with low-risk prostate cancer choose active surveillance

Three decades after UC San Francisco pioneered "active surveillance" for patients with low-risk prostate cancer, a new study has found that the vast majority of veterans with the diagnosis pursued this option instead of treatment.

13 Aug 2026

Astrocytes found to directly regulate memory consolidation during sleep

Research has shown that a good night's sleep has many benefits, including memory consolidation. How sleep enables the brain to strengthen memories is still not completely understood, but a new study published in Neuron reveals how astrocytes, brain cells known for supporting neurons and their functions, can directly regulate brain circuits involved in memory consolidation.

13 Aug 2026

Dyadic coping mediates cancer recurrence fear and survivor depression

Advances in diagnosis and treatment have extended survival for many people with gastrointestinal cancer, increasing attention to their long-term psychological health.

13 Aug 2026

AI model predicts cancer subtype, genetic mutations, and survival outcomes across 32 solid tumors

Researchers have developed a novel AI model that can analyze a routine whole histopathology image and simultaneously predict cancer subtype, specific genetic mutations, and survival outcomes across 32 different solid cancers rather than focusing on a single cancer type.

13 Aug 2026