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.

CDK9 and Cancer

Cancer Prognosis

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Management

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

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

What Causes Cancer?

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Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Cancer Symptoms

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer Pain Management

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

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

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer History

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Pathophysiology

What is Immunochemotherapy?

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Epidemiology

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Cancer Research

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Diagnosis

Pediatric Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What is Tumorigenesis?

Targeted Cancer Therapies

What is Cancer?

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Cancer Pain

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Classification

Secondary Lung Cancer

Insights into Oncofertility

Cancer Glossary

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Secondary Brain Cancer

Latest Cancer News and Research

New eye drop formulation shows promise for dry eye disease

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Okayama University in Japan have developed and tested in mice a promising new eye drop formulation for treating dry eye disease.

21 May 2026

Vitamin B12 analog targets deadly brain cancer cells

A new research paper was published in Volume 13 of Oncoscience on April 2, 2026, titled "Selective blood–brain barrier penetration and tumor targeting of nitrosylcobalamin in glioblastoma: Pharmacokinetics, tissue distribution, and synergistic activity with trail and temozolomide."

21 May 2026

Researchers discover unexpected cellular triggers for precancerous pancreas lesions

In an unexpected finding, a new study flips on its head researchers' understanding of how precancerous pancreas lesions evolve into pancreatic cancer.

21 May 2026

Targeting tumor-specific inflammatory process may prevent drug resistance in colon cancer

Chemotherapy drugs that target a common mutation in colorectal cancer rapidly lose efficacy in patients, leading to relapse.

21 May 2026

New computational tool uses plain language for genetic diagnosis

A new computational tool called MARRVEL-MCP helps researchers move toward genetic diagnoses more efficiently by analyzing and interpreting vast amounts of genetic and biological information using everyday language.

21 May 2026

Researchers discover how overpopulation reduces fertility

Scientists have reported it for decades: Overpopulation can impair reproduction.

21 May 2026

Most Americans misunderstand which sexually transmitted infections have preventive vaccines

While data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the total number of U.S. cases of three sexually transmitted infections (STIs) declined from 2022-24, infection rates remain 13% higher than a decade ago. CDC provisional data show more than 2.2 million U.S. cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were reported in 2024.

21 May 2026

Common vegetable oil compound shows power to fight dangerous viruses

A common vegetable oil may hold the key to fighting some of the world's most dangerous viruses.

21 May 2026

Scientists discover how vitamin K pathway regulates bone remodeling

Bone is continuously renewed through a process known as bone remodeling, in which osteoblasts (bone-forming cells) build new bone, while osteoclasts (bone-resorbing cells) remove older mineralized tissue.

21 May 2026

Phase two clinical trial demonstrates dramatic mobility gains in children with severe fibrous dysplasia

Fibrous dysplasia is a rare skeletal disorder in which normal bone is gradually replaced by weak fibro-osseous tissue, leading to fractures, pain, deformities, and severe mobility impairment. In many patients, diseased bone tissue produces excessive amounts of fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF23), a hormone that causes phosphate loss through the kidneys.

21 May 2026

First-of-its-kind pregnancy hormone test reveals why female IBD patients face severe symptom flares

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which comprises the inflammatory conditions Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, affects about 1.6 million Americans, many of whom cannot be effectively treated.

21 May 2026

New gene expression signature may guide immunotherapy for resistant prostate cancer patients

Researchers with the James P. Allison Institute™ at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a new gene expression signature within tumors that can help identify patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who are more likely to experience lasting benefits from combined immunotherapy treatment.

21 May 2026

New CA19-9 threshold improves pancreatic cancer risk prediction accuracy

A dual-threshold model for measuring the pancreatic tumor marker serum carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) identified patients with pancreatic cancer who had high-risk disease despite having low CA19-9 levels because of a genetic variation that impairs their ability to produce this biomarker.

21 May 2026

Small T-cell subset drives powerful multiple myeloma immunotherapy responses

Researchers from The University of Osaka find that only a small fraction of T cells may drive the robust anti-cancer response seen in breakthrough multiple myeloma immunotherapy.

21 May 2026

Light-driven nanomotors improve multimodal breast cancer treatment efficacy

The nanomotor starts with bowl‑shaped mesoporous polydopamine (PDA) nanoparticles. These biocompatible bowls are loaded with two key payloads: Fe(II) ions as a Fenton catalyst, and BNN6, a thermally sensitive NO donor.

21 May 2026

Polymer-based immunotherapies enhance tumor targeting and immune activation

Conventional immune checkpoint inhibitors, such as anti-PD-1/PD-L1 and anti-CTLA-4 antibodies, can reinvigorate T cells but typically benefit less than 30% of patients.

21 May 2026

Brain cell division errors may drive cancer and developmental disorders

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have revealed how mistakes in the final step of cell division can have dire consequences for developing brain cells.

20 May 2026

Cytokine-armored CAR-T cell therapy successfully attacks aggressive brain tumors in mice

Scientists at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new cytokine-armored CAR-T cell therapy that helps the immune system better attack aggressive brain tumors in mice while reducing dangerous side effects that have long limited immune-based treatments for glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most treatment-resistant brain cancers.

20 May 2026

Study paves way for earlier pancreatic cancer diagnoses in patients with low-risk pancreatic cysts

Catching pancreatic cancer early can increase the five-year survival rate from 15% to 80%. Patients with pancreatic cysts, frequently detected during unrelated abdominal CT or MRI imaging, can develop malignant pancreatic cancers.

20 May 2026

Restoring ADAR2 enzyme reduces metastatic spread in osteosarcoma

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone cancer in children, adolescents, and young adults. Although chemotherapy and surgery have improved survival for localized disease, outcomes remain poor when tumors spread to the lungs or return after treatment.

20 May 2026