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.

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Prognosis

What Causes Cancer?

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Pain Management

Secondary Lung Cancer

Cancer History

Myc Mutations and Cancer

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

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What is Tumorigenesis?

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Living with Cancer Pain

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Pain

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

CDK9 and Cancer

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Glossary

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Diagnosis

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Management

Pediatric Cancer

What is Cancer?

Cancer Symptoms

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Epidemiology

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Cancer Classification

Secondary Brain Cancer

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Insights into Oncofertility

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Research

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

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

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

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

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Latest Cancer News and Research

Talc not contaminated with asbestos shows no link to cancer

In a systematic review and meta-analysis, researchers found that occupational exposure to talc that is not contaminated with asbestos is not associated with an increase in the risk of lung cancer, mesothelioma, or laryngeal cancer.

10 Apr 2026

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center opens new trial for neuroendocrine tumors

A clinical trial for patients with high-grade neuroendocrine tumors is now open for enrollment at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

10 Apr 2026

Large US study finds never-married adults face higher risk for most major cancers

A large US population-based study found that never-married adults had higher cancer incidence than ever-married adults across most cancer types, with the largest disparities seen in older adults and in Black men. The pattern was especially strong for HPV-related, tobacco-related, and several reproductive cancers, suggesting marital status may act as an important social marker of cancer risk.

9 Apr 2026

IBS diagnosis gaps persist across racial and gender groups in the U.S.

A national survey study led by UCLA Health and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center found significant disparities in how irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is diagnosed across sex and racial groups in the U.S., with men and Black patients considerably less likely than women and white patients to receive a formal diagnosis.

9 Apr 2026

Study maps DNA methylation changes driving MDS stem cell dysfunction

Published on April 01, 2026, in Volume 2, article number 19 of the journal Immunity & Inflammation, a collaborative team led by Prof. Cao at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, along with Dr. Liangding Hu at the Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, and Professors Qian Zhang and Yanmei Han at the National Key Laboratory of Immunity and Inflammation, Naval Medical University, has generated the first base-resolution DNA methylome of human MDS HSCs.

9 Apr 2026

Targeted diet helps reprogram aggressive neuroblastoma in mice

Researchers highlighted how an arginine- and proline-restricted diet combined with eflornithine reprogrammed MYCN-driven neuroblastoma in mice, pushing tumor cells out of the cell cycle and toward differentiation. The commentary argues that this metabolism-to-translation link could open a new path for testing targeted dietary strategies alongside cancer drugs in future clinical studies.

9 Apr 2026

New 3D organoid model advances pediatric glioma research and treatment

A three-dimensional experimental system has been developed to study the response to drugs in low-grade glioma, a tumor of the central nervous system that often occurs in children.

9 Apr 2026

CAR T therapy induces remission in multiple autoimmune diseases

For the first time, scientists have used a cutting-edge cell therapy called CAR-T to treat a patient with three different life-threatening autoimmune diseases that had resisted years of treatment.

9 Apr 2026

AI-powered chemistry accelerates discovery of selective cancer inhibitors

Recently, the Insilico team's research entitled "An Internal Sulfur-Lone Pair Interaction Enabled the Discovery of Potential and Sub-Family Selective PKMYT1 Inhibitors" was invited for publication as a cover Feature in ChemMedChem.

9 Apr 2026

Precision medicine tools offer hope for patients with rare blood cancers

Personalized approaches have dramatically improved outcomes for many patients with non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphomas—blood cancers that arise in immune cells called B cells—yet the same is not true for patients with more rare lymphoma types that originate in immune cells called T cells.

9 Apr 2026

OICR funds four Ontario teams to develop next-generation cancer therapies

Better cancer care depends on better treatment options. That's why the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is supporting four Ontario-based research teams working to develop the next generation of cancer therapies that are designed to be more effective at destroying tumors, have reduced side effects, and make cancer less likely to return.

9 Apr 2026

UVA scientists develop AI tools to accelerate new drug discovery

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have developed a bold new approach to drug development and discovery that could dramatically accelerate the creation of new medicines.

9 Apr 2026

Study explains why current BET inhibitors fail in cancer treatment

For over a decade, a class of drugs called BET inhibitors has been tested in cancer trials with high expectations.

9 Apr 2026

Farm bureau plans are a less pricey alternative to ACA coverage — with trade-offs

Robin Carlton pays about $650 a month for a plan on the Missouri health insurance exchange that covers him and his two teenage kids.

9 Apr 2026

Microplastics found in human bile may be associated with gallstones

Findings show microplastics in bile may trigger cellular senescence, suggesting a link to gallstone disease and highlighting the need for further research.

9 Apr 2026

Study reveals lung-brain link between smoking and neurodegeneration

The correlation between smoking and neurodegeneration is well-documented, with one study from 2011 finding heavy smoking in midlife was associated with a greater than 100% increase in risk of dementia, Alzheimer's and vascular dementia more than two decades later.

8 Apr 2026

High-quality plant-based diets linked to lower dementia risk

Eating a higher quality plant-based diet is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias compared to eating a lower quality plant-based diet, according to a study published April 8, 2026, in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

8 Apr 2026

New method reveals how the genome is regulated and disrupted in diseases

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have developed a new method called PARTAGE that provides a clearer picture of how the genome is regulated and disrupted in diseases like cancer.

8 Apr 2026

Stem cell study identifies universal checkpoint controlling cell identity

A study published in Cell Research advances a central idea in stem cell biology by identifying a checkpoint that controls the identity of many different types of stem cells across developmental stages.

8 Apr 2026

Sponge and sea slug partnership yields a new anticancer molecule with drug design promise

Researchers identified jorumycidine, a new hexacyclic marine alkaloid from the nudibranch Jorunna funebris and its dietary sponge, Haliclona sp., and demonstrated that it exhibits potent nanomolar cytotoxicity against multiple myeloma cells. They also proposed a new biosynthetic route involving cross-species metabolic interplay and an unusual oxazolidine ring that may help stabilize a pharmacologically important scaffold.

8 Apr 2026