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.

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Cancer plasticity allows tumor cells to change their identity, evade therapies, and adapt to environmental pressures, contributing to treatment resistance and metastasis. New research is targeting this adaptability through epigenetic drugs, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and strategies to limit phenotypic switching.

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

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Pain Management

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Prognosis

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Classification

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

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Cancer Management

Cancer History

Secondary Lung Cancer

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

CDK9 and Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Symptoms

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Cancer Pain

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Research

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Glossary

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Secondary Brain Cancer

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

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Cancer Epidemiology

What is Cancer?

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Pediatric Cancer

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Diagnosis

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Insights into Oncofertility

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Pathophysiology

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Latest Cancer News and Research

Supervised training boosts muscle mass and balance in advanced breast cancer patients

Aerobic and resistance exercise can significantly improve physical performance in patients living with metastatic breast cancer according to new results presented at the Advanced Breast Cancer Eighth International Consensus Conference (ABC8) today (Friday).

6 Nov 2025

Engineered biomaterial promotes formation of cancer-fighting immune cell clusters

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a novel biomaterial-based system that induces the formation of tertiary lymphoid-like structures, or TLSs.

6 Nov 2025

Inflammation identified as a key driver in the earliest stages of lung cancer

By creating high-resolution cellular and molecular visual maps of lung cancer before and during development, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that the earliest stages of lung cancer may be driven by inflammation, suggesting that targeting proinflammatory pathways could be an early intervention approach.

6 Nov 2025

The Moslows' $4 million gift transforms women's health education and research

When Linda Moslow, A16P, A18P, entered perimenopause in her early 40s, she was blindsided. "I'd always been healthy and grounded in wellness," she says. "Suddenly, I couldn't recognize myself." The months of anxiety, sleeplessness, and confusion that followed left her feeling unmoored until she found a team of doctors who helped her understand what was happening.

6 Nov 2025

Allergic conditions linked to higher risk of complications after surgery

Two new studies being presented at the 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) show that people with allergic conditions - including eczema, asthma, and hay fever - may face more problems after certain types of surgery.

6 Nov 2025

American Cancer Society releases first-ever U.S. Tobacco Atlas

The American Cancer Society (ACS) today announced the inaugural release of The U.S. Tobacco Atlas, a fact-based, digital scientific resource offering comprehensive data and insights on tobacco use, control policies, and their impact nationwide. The report notes that cigarette smoking among U.S. adults dropped from 42% in 1965 to 11% in 2023.

6 Nov 2025

Two main methods for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both methods are widely used, the research found that they identify different genes, with major implications for drug development.

6 Nov 2025

Researchers identify patient response patterns to novel schizophrenia medication

Each year, about 100,000 Americans experience psychosis, a serious condition that disrupts thoughts and perceptions so profoundly that it can distort a person's sense of reality.

6 Nov 2025

Experimental intranasal vaccine triggers broad immune response against multiple strains of H5N1

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) reported encouraging results from an early phase clinical trial that found an experimental intranasal vaccine triggered a broad immune response against multiple strains of H5N1 "bird flu".

6 Nov 2025

Combination therapy offers hope for ending lifelong chronic lymphocytic leukemia treatment

Ianalumab targets the B-cell activating factor receptor (BAFR) and ibrutinib belongs to a class of therapeutics called Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKi).

6 Nov 2025

New combination treatment overcomes resistance in ER positive breast cancer

In preclinical studies, researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, have tested a new combination therapy for hormone-resistant, estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer and were able to shrink tumors, reduce the number of cancer stem cells and reprogram the immune environment to be less supportive of cancer growth.

6 Nov 2025

Global report reveals a decade of uneven progress in advanced breast cancer care

The ABC Global Alliance today launched the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) Global Decade Report 2015–2025 - a landmark global assessment revealing a decade of remarkable scientific progress that has transformed ABC care for some patients in some countries, while many others around the world have yet to benefit.

5 Nov 2025

Global survey reveals struggles of young mothers living with advanced breast cancer

Nearly half of all women aged younger than 40 who live with advanced breast cancer have children under the age of 18, according to the first global survey to investigate the challenges these women face. Results from the survey were presented to the Advanced Breast Cancer Eighth International Consensus Conference (ABC8) today.

5 Nov 2025

New study highlights the impact of pediatric integrative medicine services

A new study conducted by University Hospitals Connor Whole Health highlights the impact of pediatric integrative medicine services.

5 Nov 2025

Survival times continue to rise for people with advanced breast cancer

People diagnosed with advanced breast cancer in 2025 can expect to live for an extra six or seven months, compared to the average survival time for patients diagnosed in 2011, according to a major study of patient data in the US presented at the Advanced Breast Cancer Eighth International Consensus Conference (ABC8).

5 Nov 2025

AI and protein language models can accelerate the design of antiviral antibodies

Artificial intelligence (AI) and "protein language" models can speed the design of monoclonal antibodies that prevent or reduce the severity of potentially life-threatening viral infections, according to a multi-institutional study led by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

5 Nov 2025