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.

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Secondary Lung Cancer

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Insights into Oncofertility

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Pediatric Cancer

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

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The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Cancer Pain

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

What is Tumorigenesis?

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Cancer Epidemiology

Cancer Research

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Cancer Glossary

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

Living with Cancer Pain

Secondary Brain Cancer

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What is Cancer?

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Management

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Cancer Prognosis

Cancer Symptoms

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer History

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Cancer Pathophysiology

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Cancer Classification

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

CDK9 and Cancer

Latest Cancer News and Research

Study reveals complex patterns of burden and survival among people with digestive system cancers in China

Digestive system malignancies (DSMTs)-including esophageal, gastric, colorectal, liver, and pancreatic cancers-represent a major public health challenge in China.

18 Jul 2025

Cuproptosis offers new hope for treating inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer

Cuproptosis represents a novel mechanism of cell death characterized by intracellular copper ion accumulation.

18 Jul 2025

New mRNA vaccine strategy awakens immune system to fight cancer

An experimental mRNA vaccine boosted the tumor-fighting effects of immunotherapy in a mouse-model study, bringing researchers one step closer to their goal of developing a universal vaccine to "wake up" the immune system against cancer.

18 Jul 2025

Old chemistry unlocks safer and stronger mRNA delivery

As millions of people know firsthand, the most common side effect of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot is inflammation: soreness, redness and a day or two of malaise.

18 Jul 2025

Researchers unveil drug complex that makes cancer cells self-report to immune system

Two junior research groups at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have developed a drug complex that kills cancer cells in such a clever manner that they raise a red flag as they die. They signal to the immune system that something is seriously wrong with this type of cell.

18 Jul 2025

Study identifies SDR42E1's role in vitamin D pathway

Vitamin D is not only an essential nutrient, but also the precursor of the hormone calcitriol, indispensable for health: it regulates the uptake of phosphate and calcium necessary for bones by the intestines, as well as cell growth and the proper function of muscles, nerve cells, and the immune system.

18 Jul 2025

PAR1 protein found to boost lung fluid drainage during injury

A protein called PAR1 helps lymphatic vessels structurally transform to boost fluid drainage and support healing when the lungs are injured according to researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine.

18 Jul 2025

Polyglycine aggregates disrupt tRNA splicing and drive neurodegeneration

Neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, are devastating and incurable diseases.

17 Jul 2025

Uncovering a protective RNA molecule in kidney stress and disease

Cells contain helper molecules called transfer RNAs (tRNAs), which carry building blocks (amino acids) to make proteins.

17 Jul 2025

Specially engineered antibody delivers RNA therapy to treatment-resistant tumors

A specially engineered antibody capable of delivering RNA therapies to hard-to-reach, treatment-resistant tumors significantly shrank tumor size and improved survival in animal models, according to a study published July 16 in Science Translational Medicine.

17 Jul 2025

CRISPR-mediated DNA methylation editing regulates inflammation and tumor growth

Genes, fragments of DNA located on our chromosomes, control much of what happens in cells.

17 Jul 2025

Study casts doubt on a widely used shortcut in rectal cancer drug trials

A new study by a Tulane University researcher casts doubt on a widely used shortcut in rectal cancer drug trials, raising concerns that some treatments may be fast-tracked for approval without evidence they help patients live longer.

17 Jul 2025

Study reveals how aging alters liver function and structure

The aging liver undergoes dramatic changes in its functional organization and other key attributes, which may underpin its increasing susceptibility to disease, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine.

17 Jul 2025

COVID-19 boosters reduce hospitalization risk for cancer patients

Vaccine boosters help keep cancer patients from being hospitalized or admitted to intensive care units due to COVID-19, according to a new study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators.

17 Jul 2025

New reviews highlight urgent need for GI cancer screening in younger adults

Early-onset gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are rising at alarming rates worldwide and, in the U.S., are increasing faster than any other type of early-onset cancer, including breast cancer, according to two recent literature reviews from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

17 Jul 2025

Galectin-3 identified as key driver of chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is often diagnosed at an advanced stage and is characterized by a poor prognosis and rising mortality.

17 Jul 2025

Maybe it’s not just aging. Maybe it’s anemia.

Gary Sergott felt weary all the time. "I'd get tired, short of breath, a sort of malaise," he said. He was cold even on warm days and looked pale with dark circles under his eyes.

17 Jul 2025

Vaccinated women face fewer cervical cancer risks

The HPV vaccine demonstrates strong long-term protection against cervical cancer, yet the study underscores the necessity of ongoing screening for all women.

17 Jul 2025

Nuclear waste exposure in childhood associated with higher cancer incidence

Living near Coldwater Creek-a Missouri River tributary north of St. Louis that was polluted by nuclear waste from the development of the first atomic bomb-in childhood in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s was associated with an elevated risk of cancer, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

17 Jul 2025