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.

Cancer Pain Management

Myc Mutations and Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

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

Cancer Diagnosis

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Classification

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What Causes Cancer?

Cancer History

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Management

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Targeted Cancer Therapies

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Living with Cancer Pain

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Secondary Lung Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Insights into Oncofertility

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

Cancer Glossary

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

CDK9 and Cancer

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer Epidemiology

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Pain

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Symptoms

Secondary Brain Cancer

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Cancer Prognosis

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Research

What is Cancer?

Cancer Pathophysiology

Latest Cancer News and Research

Study identifies risk factors for early-onset colorectal cancer

A recent study found that factors such as a person's birthweight, sex, ethnicity, and father's age may affect the risk of being diagnosed with colorectal cancer at a young age.

22 Jun 2026

Immunotherapy helps bridge cancer patients to curative liver transplantation

Liver transplantation remains one of the most powerful curative options for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) because it removes both the tumor and the diseased liver.

22 Jun 2026

Mount Sinai study connects social determinants of health to disease risks

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai shows that social determinants of health-including environmental conditions, health behaviors, access to resources, and social well-being-can play an equally important or even greater role than genetics in predicting a person's risk of developing common diseases.

22 Jun 2026

GATA6 loss transforms colorectal cancer cells into metastatic states

Loss of GATA6-a transcription factor that controls which genes are turned on or off-can reprogram colorectal cancer cells into more primitive, adaptable states that can then spread to the liver and establish new tumors, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers.

22 Jun 2026

New drug could double survival time in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer

A new medication could double survival time in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, according to Phase III clinical trial results presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2026 annual meeting and simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

22 Jun 2026

Researchers advocate local data strategies for early cancer detection

Researchers are calling for the application of locally driven strategies, supported by stronger regional evidence, to improve early cancer detection and precise care.

22 Jun 2026

New guidance to help adolescents and young adults living with and beyond cancer

Adolescents and young adults (AYA) living with and beyond cancer have unique needs and perspectives that clinicians should be aware of when providing health care.

22 Jun 2026

Autonomous medical AI outperforms doctors in simulated EHR cases

MIRA, an autonomous AI agent tested in a sandboxed electronic health record, diagnosed 574 real emergency department cases with 88.9% accuracy and outperformed physicians in a matched 311-case comparison. The system ordered tests, generated medication plans, and made admission decisions in simulation, but the authors stress that prospective validation, governance, and physician oversight are still essential.

21 Jun 2026

New human protein atlas maps how cancer rewires the body’s tissues

Researchers created a DIA-MS atlas of 13,609 proteins across 2,856 samples from fetal, healthy adult, paired non-tumor, and tumor tissues. The resource maps tissue-specific protein patterns, cancer-associated changes, organ-specific drug-toxicity signals, and candidate therapeutic targets.

21 Jun 2026

International survey highlights major gaps in cardio-oncology education

An international survey has highlighted major gaps in cardio-oncology training, despite its increasing clinical importance. These results were presented at ESC Cardio-Oncology 2026, the second annual conference of the European Society of Cardiology's Council of Cardio-Oncology.

21 Jun 2026

Many kidney transplant candidates fail to reach the national waitlist

Nearly half of Americans with kidney failure who are referred for transplantation never begin the process required to be considered for a new organ, a new study shows, while less than a fifth actually complete the assessment and get on the waitlist.

21 Jun 2026

Synthetic gut communities reveal how diet rewires the microbiome

Synthetic microbial communities give researchers controlled models for testing how diet reshapes gut microbial ecology, metabolism, and host-relevant responses. The review highlights how SynComs can strengthen causal inference, improve intervention testing, and support future precision nutrition, while noting major challenges in stability, standardization, and ecological realism.

21 Jun 2026