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.

Living with Cancer Pain

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

CDK9 and Cancer

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Classification

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

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Cancer History

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Pain

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

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Insights into Oncofertility

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

What Causes Cancer?

Secondary Lung Cancer

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Myc Mutations and Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Management

Cancer Epidemiology

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cancer Research

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

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Prognosis

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Glossary

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

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

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Pediatric Cancer

Secondary Brain Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

What is Cancer?

Cancer Pain Management

Cancer Pathophysiology

Latest Cancer News and Research

How much do nuts matter for blood pressure? This study points to about a handful a day

A meta-analysis of eight prospective studies involving 143,380 participants found that higher nut consumption was associated with a lower risk of developing hypertension. Each 28 g/day increment was associated with a 20% lower relative risk in the linear analysis, while the modeled association appeared to level off at around one handful per day.

12 Aug 2026

Cannabis compounds may weaken glioblastoma response to chemotherapy and radiation

Several cannabinoids reduced chemotherapy- and radiation-induced apoptosis in glioblastoma cell models, with effects linked to reduced apoptotic priming, increased pro-survival signaling, and G1 cell-cycle arrest. The findings raise concern that cannabinoid exposure could interfere with some cancer treatments, although the results are limited to laboratory models and require in vivo and clinical validation.

12 Aug 2026

Genetic tool turns soft cancer cells into immune targets

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Keck School of Medicine of USC have engineered a remarkable genetic tool that addresses one of the most persistent obstacles in cancer immunotherapy: the physical softness of tumors.

11 Aug 2026

Study: Nearly all personal care and cleaning products contain undisclosed chemicals

A new study of sunscreens, baby lotions, shampoos, soaps, and other everyday products found that nearly all contained chemicals not disclosed on their labels.

11 Aug 2026

ANESTHESIOLOGY 2026 to highlight latest advances in anesthesia care

Ketamine given during C-sections could help ease early symptoms of postpartum depression. Common pain relievers, such as ibuprofen, may reduce the risk of delirium after surgery.

11 Aug 2026

New human tissue chips aim to replace animal testing

Animal testing has long been the standard for evaluating new drugs before they reach human patients. But when it comes to cancer immunotherapy drugs, animal models often fail to predict which immunotherapies might produce harmful side effects in humans because they do not have the same responses or the same cell receptors.

11 Aug 2026

HonorHealth begins trial of dendritic cell vaccine for advanced melanoma

Physicians at HonorHealth Research Institute have begun a clinical trial of a new, potentially more powerful, treatment for fighting advanced melanoma, using the immune system's dendritic cells to create a vaccine.

11 Aug 2026

New study identifies key pathway for delivering antisense cancer drugs

Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) have been proposed as a therapeutic approach to shut down the production of faulty proteins in a wide variety of diseases, including cancer.

11 Aug 2026

New lab-grown heart valves advance treatments for childhood heart diseases

Melbourne researchers have created human heart valve tissues from stem cells, providing a powerful new platform to advance treatments for childhood heart diseases.

11 Aug 2026

Scientists identify parasite-specific protein linked to chronic Toxoplasma infections

Toxoplasma gondii, or Toxoplasma, is a parasite that infects hundreds of millions of people around the world.

11 Aug 2026

New UH Health initiative targets Texas healthcare workforce shortage

Addressing Texas' growing healthcare workforce shortage and rising demand for care, the University of Houston has launched UH Health, an academic health enterprise designed to integrate education, research and community engagement across the University.

11 Aug 2026

Lab-grown mini tumors help scientists predict breast cancer treatment success

Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a new method to predict how different types of breast cancer will respond to treatment, using patient data from the I-SPY2 breast cancer trial and rapid testing on lab-grown mini tumors.

11 Aug 2026

Leica Biosystems enables faster cancer diagnoses through multiple digital pathology FDA clearances, including industry-first AI-assisted quality control software

Leica Biosystems introduces AI-driven quality control in digital pathology, streamlining workflows and enhancing diagnostic accuracy for better patient care.

From Leica Biosystems 11 Aug 2026

One cognitive ability stood out in a study of Western diets and Alzheimer’s risk genes

A Western dietary pattern was associated with faster attention decline among older adults carrying the APOE ε4 allele, while no significant cognitive associations emerged for a Prudent dietary pattern. However, the Western diet association lost statistical significance after excluding participants with possible baseline cognitive impairment, making the finding exploratory.

11 Aug 2026

Study uses alternative splicing data to predict protein function

A single human gene can produce multiple protein isoforms through alternative splicing, greatly expanding the functional diversity of the proteome.

10 Aug 2026

Study links delayed Ewing sarcoma growth to reduced Trk and IGF1R pathway markers

A new research paper was published in Volume 17 of Oncotarget on August 7, 2026, titled "Delayed growth of SK-ES-1 Ewing sarcoma tumor xenografts is associated with reduced Trk and IGF1R pathway markers."

10 Aug 2026

Scientists create single-cell atlas of spinal neurons involved in motor coordination

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital created a single-cell atlas of a key class of spinal neurons involved in motor coordination. From that resource, they identified a small subgroup of interneurons associated with the speed of rhythmic movements such as walking.

10 Aug 2026

Traditional prostate cancer features fail to predict hormone therapy benefit

A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that while traditional pathological features used to classify aggressive prostate cancer -such as high-grade disease, cancer extending outside the prostate and cancer involving the seminal vesicles- after surgery can help identify patients who are more likely to have worse outcomes, they do not predict who will benefit more from adding hormone therapy to postoperative radiation.

10 Aug 2026

New partnership expands patient access to cancer clinical trials

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC) and Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) have partnered to help patients gain greater access to potential cancer treatments by participating in clinical trials.

10 Aug 2026

New study uncovers metabolic vulnerability in high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Cancer Center have identified a previously unknown metabolic weakness in the stem cells that drive high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a discovery that could lead to more targeted treatments for this aggressive blood cancer.

10 Aug 2026