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.

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

What is Cancer?

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Living with Cancer Pain

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer History

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Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Diagnosis

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Classification

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Cancer Pain

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Cancer Research

Cancer Symptoms

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

Cancer Pain Management

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Insights into Oncofertility

CDK9 and Cancer

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

What is Tumorigenesis?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Secondary Brain Cancer

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

Cancer Management

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer Epidemiology

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Glossary

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer Prognosis

Cancer Pathophysiology

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Latest Cancer News and Research

New strategy boosts immune attack against pancreatic cancer

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School have identified why pancreatic cancer is difficult for the immune system to recognize and attack, paving the way for a new approach to improve immunotherapy.

20 Jul 2026

Oral drug avatrombopag reduces chemotherapy treatment delays, trial finds

In a phase 2 trial of patients with gastrointestinal cancers, avatrombopag helped 70% of those receiving chemotherapy to stay on treatment schedule, compared with 17% receiving placebo.

20 Jul 2026

New AI score enhances monitoring of myelodysplastic neoplasms

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have developed a new AI-based method to assess patients with a form of blood cancer called myelodysplastic neoplasms.

20 Jul 2026

Exercise oncology could unlock new therapeutic pathways against cancer

Regular exercise is associated with improved outcomes for many patients with cancer, yet those with advanced disease may be unable to participate in exercise-based interventions.

20 Jul 2026

Machine learning tool improves accuracy of genome mapping studies

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have identified a widespread source of error in a popular method for studying the genome – our genetic instructions – and created a machine-learning tool to correct it.

20 Jul 2026

New tumor organoids strengthen precision oncology research

Significant advances have been made in the development of patient-derived tumor "organoids" for preclinical research, in two new studies led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

20 Jul 2026

Specialized blood vessels enable effective immune defense against cancer metastases

It has long been suspected that endothelial cells, the specialized cells lining the inner walls of blood vessels, play a key role in determining how the body’s immune system responds to tumors.

20 Jul 2026

Dissolving microneedles could improve photodynamic skin cancer treatment

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses a light-sensitive drug and a specific wavelength of light to destroy cancer cells.

20 Jul 2026

New target makes cancer cells vulnerable to immune destruction

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have identified a molecular switch that helps determine whether cancer cells remain soft and difficult to destroy or become stiff enough for the immune system to attack.

20 Jul 2026

AI-guided technique improves targeted therapy delivery for brain tumors

Researchers presented a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI)-guided technique today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 23rd Annual Meeting that may improve the accuracy of delivering experimental therapies directly to malignant brain tumors.

20 Jul 2026

Study reveals why rare neurological disease damages specific brain regions

Many neurological diseases damage specific parts of the brain, even though the harmful protein involved is present throughout the brain.

20 Jul 2026

Missing ancestry data in single-cell atlases threatens fair medicine

The single-cell "atlases" that are increasingly used to map the human body and as training data for artificial intelligence models, may not represent the world's populations fairly, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

20 Jul 2026

Prenatal use of certain medications can harm developing fetal brain

A review article by a University of Nebraska Medical Center/Child Health Research Institute research team underscores and describes how altering fundamental brain development processes can be detrimental for the developing baby.

20 Jul 2026

New tool detects hidden biases in medical training data

Researchers have built a tool to uncover hidden issues in the massive datasets used to train medical AI.

20 Jul 2026

New study redefines high risk criteria for multiple myeloma

Researchers have found that with new treatments for multiple myeloma, a serious type of blood cancer, clinicians should use different criteria for identifying patients with poor odds of survival.

20 Jul 2026

Filtered coffee links to slower biological aging while instant coffee shows the opposite

Filtered coffee consumption was associated with slower biological aging, while instant coffee was linked to faster aging in UK Biobank participants. The cross-sectional findings do not prove causation, but they suggest that brewing method may influence coffee’s relationship with aging biomarkers.

20 Jul 2026

Infectious disease expert explains who faces the highest risk from cyclosporiasis

People across the United States are taking a closer look at their lettuce and leafy greens this summer thanks to an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal illness that causes several symptoms, the most notable being severe, watery diarrhea.

19 Jul 2026

KAIST study opens a new avenue for treating intractable brain tumors

Researchers have uncovered a clue to why immune checkpoint inhibitors-cancer therapies that release the immune "brakes" exploited by tumors to evade attack-show limited efficacy in some brain tumors.

19 Jul 2026

Study reveals how adolescent brain remodeling reshapes memory retrieval

Scientists have long known that the human brain continues developing well beyond the teenage years, with important changes involving decision-making and emotional regulation extending into the mid-to-late 20s.

17 Jul 2026

New ctDNA blood test improves personalized prostate cancer treatment

A noninvasive DNA blood test can identify metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients who are most likely to benefit from 223Ra radiopharmaceutical therapy and monitor their progress throughout treatment, according to new research published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

17 Jul 2026