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.

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Pain

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

CDK9 and Cancer

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

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

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

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Secondary Brain Cancer

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Management

Cancer Epidemiology

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Pediatric Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Research

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Pain Management

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Myc Mutations and Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

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

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Cancer Classification

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Pathophysiology

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Cancer Diagnosis

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer History

What Causes Cancer?

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Glossary

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

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

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Prognosis

Insights into Oncofertility

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

What is Cancer?

Secondary Lung Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Latest Cancer News and Research

New AI system automates classification of skin lesions

Skin cancer is a global health challenge, with nearly 1.5 million new cases diagnosed in 2024 according to World Health Organization (WHO) data. In response, the University of Alicante (UA) and the Sant Joan d'Alacant University Hospital have collaborated to launch MEL-IA (MobilE skin Lesion dIAgnosis), an artificial intelligence system designed to automate the classification of skin lesions.

5 Oct 2026

Restoring cellular recycling helps the body clear harmful zombie cells

As we grow older, our bodies accumulate "zombie cells"-living cells that have stopped dividing or functioning normally-but linger in our tissues, contributing to chronic inflammation and age-related diseases.

5 Oct 2026

Tailored treatments allow less invasive surgery for breast cancer patients

For many patients diagnosed with breast cancer, the first instinct may be to pursue the most aggressive treatment possible.

5 Oct 2026

Patient navigators significantly improve postpartum care for low-income mothers

While the transition to motherhood can be challenging for anyone, barriers such as inadequate health literacy, unreliable transportation, navigating a complex health care system, limited access to childcare or insecure housing can be the tipping point between a new mom accessing needed care or going without it.

5 Oct 2026

Cambridge and London Life Sciences Showcase returns during JPM Healthcare Week 2027

o2h co-discovery has announced that the Cambridge × London Life Sciences Showcase will return for its second edition during J.P. Morgan Healthcare Week 2027 in San Francisco.

From o2h Group 5 Oct 2026

Dana-Farber research reveals possible new target for treatment of sickle cell and beta thalassemia

That pathway involves BACH2 and NRF2 and was discovered using a large genome-wide association study that enabled an analysis of genes related to fetal hemoglobin from a wide range of ancestries, including European, African, and Asian ancestries.

5 Oct 2026

Simple urine test can accurately diagnose and track bladder cancer

A simple urine test devised by researchers at Stanford Medicine and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System can diagnose people with bladder cancer more accurately than current standard methods.

5 Oct 2026

ASAC trial reveals aspirin fails to improve metastatic colorectal cancer survival

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and up to half of patients develop liver metastases during the course of their disease.

5 Oct 2026

Working nights for years is linked to changes in body-clock genes

Chronic night shifts alter circadian gene activity in female healthcare workers.

5 Oct 2026

Poor nutrition scores predict mortality risk beyond body weight

In a population-based cohort of 8,398 adults in Leipzig, Germany, poorer nutritional status measured using several laboratory-based scores was associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of about 7.5 years.

5 Oct 2026

New study reveals how VEGF-C amplifies lymphangiogenic signaling

Lymphatic vessels act as the body's "drainage system," collecting excess fluid from tissues. When lymphatic drainage is impaired because lymphatic vessels are underdeveloped, damaged, or dysfunctional, lymphedema can develop, causing swelling, particularly in the arms and legs.

1 Oct 2026

New strategy uncovers bioactive compounds from fragmented metagenomic data

Researchers have developed a practical strategy for recovering biosynthetic information from fragmented metagenomic data.

1 Oct 2026

NCCN introduces first-ever evidence-based guidelines for pediatric bone sarcoma

Today, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) published the first-ever edition of NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Pediatric Bone Sarcoma.

1 Oct 2026

Autophagy changes with age, sex and cell type, study finds

Taking out the trash is a chore that even our cells cannot escape. Through a process known as autophagy, they place misshapen proteins and other cellular garbage in biological containers in order to digest them into their molecular building blocks.

1 Oct 2026

Stroke reshapes brain environment to accelerate glioma progression

After a stroke, the brain gets to work repairing damaged tissue. But new research suggests some of the same biological processes that aid recovery may also help tumor cells grow and spread.

1 Oct 2026

Sex chromosomes influence immunity, cancer, aging and disease risk

A new review published in Science brings together growing evidence that the X and Y chromosomes do much more than determining biological sex. They also shape how cells function, age and respond to disease.

1 Oct 2026

Phage proteases activate bacterial immune response to viral infection

In the fight to find better treatments for bacterial infections, one rapidly evolving therapy is a group of viruses called bacteriophages (phages). Phages can attack and kill dangerous bacteria while leaving human cells unharmed and bypassing antibiotic resistance.

1 Oct 2026

Loss of tumor suppressor p53 reshapes Wnt signaling to drive mutant cell expansion

A protein known as p53 is, of all tumor suppressors in human cancer, the most frequently altered by gene mutations.

1 Oct 2026

Varying mutation rates in healthy organs explain cancer risk

A new study by scientists at City of Hope® and TGen, part of City of Hope, found surprisingly large differences in the number of mutations present in organs of healthy individuals.

1 Oct 2026

Mauritius becomes first country to reverse type 2 diabetes epidemic

New research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Milan, Italy (Sept 28 – Oct 2) and published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology shows that the small island nation of Mauritius is the first country in the world to prove it is reversing the type 2 diabetes epidemic using the objective gold standard testing method of the 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (2 hour OGTT).

1 Oct 2026