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.

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Prognosis

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Symptoms

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Glossary

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

What is Cancer?

Secondary Lung Cancer

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The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Insights into Oncofertility

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Research

CDK9 and Cancer

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Secondary Brain Cancer

What Causes Cancer?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

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

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer Pain

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Cancer Pathophysiology

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Diagnosis

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Epidemiology

Cancer History

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

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Living with Cancer Pain

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

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

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Classification

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cancer Pain Management

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Cancer Management

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Pediatric Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Latest Cancer News and Research

Inherited genetics can influence safety and success of CAR-T cell therapy

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy, which reprograms an individual's immune cells to seek out and destroy certain cancer cells, has revolutionized treatment for blood cancers such as lymphoma.

24 Jul 2026

Taiwan Biobank data reveals ongoing natural selection in living humans

For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including fossils, genetic variation across populations, and ancient DNA.

24 Jul 2026

Two interconnected signaling pathways drive papillary thyroid carcinoma progression

A new research perspective was published in Volume 13 of Oncoscience on June 3, 2026, titled "The dual axis of tumorigenesis: MAPK and PI3K/AKT pathways in papillary thyroid carcinoma."

24 Jul 2026

NYU Langone expands healthcare footprint with new Brooklyn location

NYU Langone Health is continuing to expand its footprint in Brooklyn with the opening of NYU Langone Ambulatory Care—Fort Hamilton, a new multi-specialty practice offering top-quality care.

24 Jul 2026

Two microscopic parasites cause widespread diarrheal illness across America

You've seen the alarming headlines about parasites causing "explosive diarrhea" across the U.S. Two microscopic parasites – cyclospora cayetanensis and cryptosporidium – can both cause prolonged gastrointestinal illness, including watery diarrhea, stomach cramps, and dehydration.

24 Jul 2026

Cambridge scientists solve brain puzzle behind popular obesity drugs

Cambridge scientists have solved the mystery of why both stimulating and blocking a particular 'switch' in the brain can help people lose weight – findings which could help boost the effectiveness of obesity drugs.

24 Jul 2026

Engineered extracellular vesicles dramatically improve cancer detection sensitivity

Anyone afflicted with cancer will often face a long and difficult journey. The early stages of any medical intervention will necessarily include a biopsy, tissue sample collection, such as a liquid biopsy which uses a blood sample.

23 Jul 2026

Computationally designed antibody attacks previously untreatable KRAS cancer mutations

Antibodies are like "guided missiles" that find and attack cancer cells, but cancer-causing mutations inside cells have remained a "blind spot" for treatment because antibodies cannot reach them.

23 Jul 2026

Targeting acid ceramidase could improve healthy aging and longevity

Our population is aging. The United Nations reports that by 2050, the number of people over the age of 85 on our planet is set to triple.

23 Jul 2026

Endotrophin may reveal metabolic risks linked to changing body fat

Researchers have identified a biological marker that rises and falls as body fat changes, offering new insight into how weight gain and weight loss may influence metabolic health.

23 Jul 2026

Higher neuroticism may curb strenuous exercise, genetic analysis suggests

Researchers used a UK survey and genetic data to examine whether higher neuroticism is associated with lower exercise engagement. Under the study’s Mendelian randomization assumptions, higher neuroticism was estimated to reduce participation in moderate and vigorous physical activity, while conscientiousness may lessen this effect.

23 Jul 2026

Study reveals dynamic remodeling of genome architecture during brain aging

Researchers have discovered that the human brain undergoes widespread age-related changes in genome regulation beginning in midlife that may help explain why aging is the greatest risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

23 Jul 2026

MEK inhibition could limit T cell exhaustion and give a boost to immunotherapy

A major pillar of cancer immunotherapy involves stimulating T cells, the specialized killers of the immune system, to attack tumors.

23 Jul 2026

Mass-producible immune cells fight solid human tumors in mice

Off-the-shelf and mass-producible immune cells fight solid human tumors engrafted into mice. The Kobe University development is a significant contribution towards faster and cheaper cancer immunotherapy.

23 Jul 2026

Chemotherapy leaves early genomic fingerprints in childhood tumors

Nearly half of childhood tumors treated with common types of chemotherapy showed detectable DNA changes linked to treatment within 18 months, according to a new international study led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).

23 Jul 2026

RNA-based testing can improve detection of key lung cancer biomarkers

New research has shown that RNA-based testing can improve the detection and interpretation of clinically actionable genomic alterations leading to MET exon 14 skipping in lung cancer patients—important biomarkers that may be missed by DNA-only approaches.

23 Jul 2026

Review expands the role of selenium metabolism in ferroptosis

For decades, selenium has been recognized as an essential micronutrient, and glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4)-a selenium-containing enzyme-has been widely regarded as the central guardian against ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death driven by lipid peroxidation.

23 Jul 2026