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.

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Management

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

CDK9 and Cancer

Cancer Research

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Insights into Oncofertility

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Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Pain Management

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Classification

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Secondary Lung Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Symptoms

Cancer Glossary

Targeted Cancer Therapies

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

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

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

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Secondary Brain Cancer

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Pain

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Prognosis

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer History

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

What is Cancer?

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

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Pathophysiology

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

What is Tumorigenesis?

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Cancer Diagnosis

Latest Cancer News and Research

Federal and industry sponsors play complementary roles in cancer clinical trials

A comparative study of the cancer clinical trial portfolios supported by federal funding versus industry funding reveals they have distinct, interdependent roles in cancer research.

20 Aug 2026

Study shows how prostate tumors rewire metabolism to resist therapy

Prostate tumors can rewire amino acid metabolism to override the normal brakes on cholesterol production, a process that may fuel hormone therapy resistance, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

20 Aug 2026

New AI framework improves reliability of cancer pathology diagnosis

Cancer diagnoses directly affect treatment decisions and prognosis and can even have life-altering consequences.

20 Aug 2026

Active screening cuts colorectal cancer death risk drastically

People who take part in screening for colorectal cancer may have as much as 43 per cent lower risk of dying from the disease, according to new estimates published in JAMA Network Open by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University in Sweden.

20 Aug 2026

Review examines how medical imaging foundation models are moved toward clinical use

AI is already widely used for lesion detection, disease classification, and outcome prediction in medical imaging, but most systems remain narrowly designed for one task and depend heavily on expert-labelled data.

20 Aug 2026

Vibration isolation in drug discovery research

Vibration isolation supports high-resolution microscopy in drug discovery, enabling stable imaging environments and reliable data at the nanometer scale.

From TMC Vibration Control 20 Aug 2026

New studies reveal hidden control hub for MYC-driven cancers

In a rare pair of papers published back-to-back in the journal Genes & Development, research teams led by senior author Anindya Bagchi, PhD, associate professor in the Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, establish a unified framework that governs one of cancer's most powerful master regulators.

19 Aug 2026

A single blood test could offer a glimpse of disease risk years in advance

Machine learning-derived cellular aging clocks mapped more than 7,000 plasma proteins to over 40 cell types, revealing marked differences in how individual cell populations age. These blood-based signatures were associated with future risks of Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, lung cancer, type 2 diabetes, and mortality across follow-up extending to 15 years.

19 Aug 2026

NSF grant supports UH researchers to investigate how mutation rates evolve across species

A nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Houston researchers to investigate how mutation rates evolve across species - work that could offer critical insights into cancer progression and antibiotic resistance.

19 Aug 2026

Colorectal tumors may damage nerves before chemotherapy

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that, in preclinical models of colorectal cancer, tumors can start damaging peripheral nerves before chemotherapy begins.

19 Aug 2026

Multi-organ chip uncovers key mechanisms behind cancer metastasis

Cancer spreading beyond the primary tumor – a process known as metastasis – is responsible for at least two-thirds of cancer deaths.

19 Aug 2026

Immediate access puts test results in patients’ hands, but the next challenge is making sense of them

A nationally representative US study found that 68.6% of adults with access to medical records viewed immediately released test results before hearing from a healthcare practitioner. Among these viewers, only 34.9% rated their understanding as very good, with comprehension varying by region, digital literacy, patient-centered communication, and experiences of medical care discrimination.

19 Aug 2026

A decades-long study raises questions about sugary drinks and stomach cancer

A large prospective U.S. study followed more than 111,000 adults to examine whether sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverage intake was associated with gastric cancer incidence. Researchers identified 278 gastric cancer cases over 3.2 million person-years and found that associations differed according to beverage type and level of consumption.

19 Aug 2026

Special journal issue highlights precision prevention in cancer epidemiology

Cancer epidemiology is not merely about counting cases; it is a dynamic field that informs screening policies, resource allocation, and clinical trial design.

19 Aug 2026

Skull bone marrow contains immune hubs that fight brain cancer

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered lymph node-like structures in the skull bone marrow of mice for the first time and demonstrated that they act as rapid first responders against brain cancer before distant lymph nodes get the signal that abnormal cells are present.

19 Aug 2026

NYU study shows diverse cannabis use patterns signal heavier use

Nearly half of adults in the United States who use cannabis mainly smoke it, but about 1 in 7 use it in nearly every form available, a behavior tied to daily cannabis use and increased addiction risk, a new study shows.

19 Aug 2026

New optical control platform blocks and restores neural signaling

DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee) announced that a research team led by Professor Ji Won Um of the Center for Synapse Diversity and Specificity, Department of Brain Sciences, in collaboration with a research team led by Professor Alice Ting at Stanford University, has developed LATeNT, a novel optical control platform that uses light to block signal transmission between neurons and subsequently restore normal signaling.

19 Aug 2026