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.

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

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

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Targeted Cancer Therapies

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Cancer Prognosis

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

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

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Secondary Brain Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Pain Management

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

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Management

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Cancer History

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Classification

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Epidemiology

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

CDK9 and Cancer

What is Cancer?

What Causes Cancer?

Cancer Glossary

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What is Tumorigenesis?

Cancer Pain

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Cancer Research

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Insights into Oncofertility

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Symptoms

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Secondary Lung Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Latest Cancer News and Research

Regular exercisers show distinct metabolic and immune signatures in blood

Researchers compared blood samples from 40 regular exercisers and 46 sedentary adults and found differences in metabolites, blood chemistry, and immune cell gene activity. The patterns suggested greater fatty acid use and altered immune signaling among exercisers, but the study could not establish that exercise caused these differences.

21 Sep 2026

Chronic DNA damage response may contribute to biological aging

A new review was published in Volume 18 of Aging on August 31, 2026, titled "The guardian paradox: DNA damage response overactivation as an integrative driver of aging – a tumor suppressor–negative regulator framework."

21 Sep 2026

New brain circuit discovery offers hope for panic disorder treatments

Our survival depends on brains that constantly search for danger and, if found, stay alert until it has passed.

21 Sep 2026

Cohesin protein protects genetic information during cell division

Cell division, a process fundamental to life, still holds surprises. Researchers from the University of Zurich and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered a key mechanism that allows cells to protect genetic information as they divide.

21 Sep 2026

Maldives meets UN target for reducing premature chronic disease deaths

The Maldives has become the only country in the World Health Organization's South East Asia region to meet the UN target for reducing premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases, cancers and diabetes.

21 Sep 2026

New digital system helps young cancer survivors manage late treatment effects

For a young person, completing cancer treatment can mark a long-awaited return to everyday life - education, work, relationships and plans for a family.

21 Sep 2026

New international standard creates unified health data across Europe

Every breath we take contains tiny particles that are invisible to the naked eye and can harm our health. Air pollution alone contributes to heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and other chronic illnesses.

21 Sep 2026

MIT researchers develop noninvasive way to spot aging zombie cells

As we age, some of the cells in our body enter a state of senescence, in which they stop dividing but do not die. Those senescent cells can contribute to age-related disorders such as cancer, tissue degeneration, and inflammatory diseases.

21 Sep 2026

German researchers aim to completely degrade breast cancer protein

Simply switching off a protein that helps breast cancer cells to grow? That is not enough for researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

21 Sep 2026

EVITA clinical trial evaluates oral vitamin C for pre-cancerous blood disorders

Vitamin C boosts the activity of cellular proteins called TET enzymes that help control which genes are turned on or off.

21 Sep 2026

Clinicians' words hold power to heal or harm patients

Dr. Wendy Harpham was 36 years old and a successful physician who prided herself on her empathy. Then she was diagnosed with cancer.

21 Sep 2026

Daily vitamin C may benefit pre-cancerous blood disorder patients

Vitamin C is an essential nutrient that supports immune function, promotes wound healing and protects cells from molecular damage.

21 Sep 2026

Sugary drinks stood out in this stomach cancer study, but diet drinks did not

In two large US prospective cohorts, consuming more than one sugar-sweetened beverage a day was associated with higher gastric cancer incidence compared with consuming less than one serving a month. Artificially sweetened beverages were not associated with gastric cancer incidence, and the authors called for further studies to confirm the findings and clarify possible biological mechanisms.

21 Sep 2026

Mifepristone offers effective emergency contraception with fewer side effects

Emergency contraception containing mifepristone prevents more pregnancies with fewer side effects than some other common emergency contraceptive pills such as levonorgestrel, according to a new Cochrane review involving 87 trials.

20 Sep 2026

New mRNA vaccine expands flu protection options for older adults

Every fall, millions of Americans heed the call to get their annual flu shot. Getting vaccinated reduces the risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death from influenza.

20 Sep 2026

Why might a higher BMI at 20 be linked to lower breast cancer risk later in life?

A large UK cohort study found that higher BMI at age 20 was associated with lower postmenopausal breast cancer risk, while higher BMI in later adulthood was linked to increased risk. Lower VAS percentage mammographic density appeared to explain part of the early-adulthood association, while fibroglandular volume showed a different relationship with life-course adiposity.

20 Sep 2026

Y chromosome loss creates hidden cancer vulnerability in men

A study initiated by a University of Arizona Cancer Center physician-scientist Dr. Dan Theodorescu revealed that the loss of the Y chromosome in men's body tissue could pave the way for cancer to develop in that tissue.

18 Sep 2026

CRISPR activation library uncovers gene driving lymphoma growth and resistance

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown gene causing resistance to a leading blood cancer drug and several genes that accelerate lymphoma growth by using a powerful new CRISPR activation library.

18 Sep 2026

Exploring how smart technologies support older people while respecting their privacy

On World Patient Safety Day, 17 September, we often think about preventing medical errors, infections or other risks in healthcare.

18 Sep 2026

B cells may play a role in triggering immunotherapy-related colitis

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a previously unknown role for B cells, which are adaptive immune cells, in triggering and sustaining colitis occurring as a side effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors, a widely used form of cancer immunotherapy.

18 Sep 2026