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.

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Cancer Pain

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

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What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Research

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Cancer Management

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Prognosis

What is Cancer?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

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

Secondary Lung Cancer

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

CDK9 and Cancer

What is Tumorigenesis?

Insights into Oncofertility

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Secondary Brain Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Pediatric Cancer

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer History

Cancer Classification

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Epidemiology

Cancer Glossary

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What Causes Cancer?

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

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Living with Cancer Pain

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Cancer Pain Management

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Cancer Symptoms

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Latest Cancer News and Research

Antisense oligonucleotides reverse rare neurodevelopmental disorder in preclinical models

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found they can reverse the effects of HNRNPH2-related neurodevelopmental disorder using antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) in preclinical models. ASOs are short synthetic nucleic acid strands that target specific messenger RNA.

22 Apr 2026

Experimental drug kills aggressive breast cancer by toxic fat buildup

An experimental drug targeting triple-negative breast cancer overwhelms cancer cells with toxic fats, according to new tests on human-derived tumors in mice.

22 Apr 2026

Cancer during pregnancy causes lasting emotional and financial challenges

Women diagnosed with cancer in pregnancy face profound, long-term emotional and financial challenges, a new study from the University of Surrey finds.

22 Apr 2026

Global experts highlight new strategies to target human aging

A new meeting report was published in Volume 18 of Aging-US on April 6, 2026, titled "Toward actionable interventions in human aging (12th ARDD meeting, 2025)."

22 Apr 2026

AI model analyzes single-cell tumor data to predict cancer survival

In a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study, researchers developed a cancer assessment tool that can identify high-risk patients and the tumor cells linked to that risk.

22 Apr 2026

Study links common herbicide to rising early-onset colorectal cancer risk

Researchers used DNA methylation-based “epigenetic fingerprints” as proxies for lifelong exposome-related patterns and found that early-onset colorectal cancer was associated with lower Mediterranean diet adherence, lower education, smoking-related signatures, and higher picloram-related exposure signals. They then supported the picloram association in nine independent cohorts and with 21 years of US county-level pesticide-use data, while noting that the findings show association rather than proof of causation.

22 Apr 2026

Fitness in midlife extends health span and overall life expectancy

How fit you are in midlife may help determine not just how long you live, but how many of those years are spent in good health, according to a new study published today in the JACC, the flagship journal of the American College of Cardiology.

22 Apr 2026

Prostate cancer overdiagnosis risk increases substantially in older men

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found that the likelihood of prostate cancer overdiagnosis – the detection of a cancer that would never have been diagnosed during a patient's lifetime but for PSA screening – is low in younger men but rises substantially with old age.

22 Apr 2026

Immunotherapy drug helps bladder cancer patients avoid major organ removal

A drug that helps the immune system find cancer cells also helps patients avoid having their bladders surgically removed (cystectomy), a new study shows.

22 Apr 2026

New "plug-and-play" AI outperforms pathologists in lymph node metastasis detection

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) pathology analysis system that can accurately recognize multiple types of cancer using only a minimal number of samples-without requiring any additional training. This breakthrough significantly enhances the flexibility and efficiency of AI-assisted medical care, marking a major step forward toward the widespread adoption of intelligent pathology.

22 Apr 2026

Federal housing support improves survival odds for prostate cancer patients

Older men with prostate cancer who receive federal housing assistance at the time they are first diagnosed have better two-year survival chances compared to demographically and clinically similar men without that assistance, new UCLA-led research suggests.

22 Apr 2026

Urban asphalt releases harmful pollutants that threaten public health

If you piled all of Phoenix's pavement into one spot, it would be enough to cover San Francisco four times over.

22 Apr 2026

Study shows older lung recipients can achieve outcomes comparable to youth

Today at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 46th Annual meeting and Scientific Sessions, transplant specialists Brian Keller, MD, PhD, and Thomas Egan, MD debated an ethically fraught question: How old is too old for a lung transplant?

22 Apr 2026

Tumor immune cell patterns predict melanoma immunotherapy response

A new UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center study suggests that the way immune cells are organized inside melanoma tumors may help researchers better understand which patients will benefit from combination immunotherapy after standard anti-PD-1 treatment stops working - and which may not.

22 Apr 2026

New molecule weakens glioblastoma and enhances immune response

A team of researchers from Brown University Health and Brown University has uncovered an important clue in the fight against glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer in adults.

21 Apr 2026

Teen attitudes toward sun protection impact skin cancer prevention behaviors

A new study funded by the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health finds that how high school students perceive the costs of sun protection and the rewards of tanning play a significant role in whether they practice sun-safe behaviors.

21 Apr 2026

New method predicts cancer patient survival using advanced molecular data

Oregon Health & Science University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind method to predict cancer patient survival using advanced molecular data from individual cells.

21 Apr 2026

Low-dose nivolumab injections shrink precancerous oral lesions

Direct injection of a low dose of the immune checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab into precancerous oral lesions significantly reduced lesion size and risk of cancer progression, sparing most patients from surgery.

21 Apr 2026

Cancer-linked mutations in the brain cells may drive Alzheimer’s disease

As the body ages, cells naturally accumulate dozens of genetic mutations each year. New research from Boston Children's Hospital, published in Cell, finds that the brain's resident immune cells, microglia, amass mutations in specific cancer-driving genes yet they don't manifest as cancer.

21 Apr 2026

Pinecone-inspired conduit enables suture-free repair of nerve injuries

As the authors detail, PNI is a prevalent neurological condition that often causes permanent sensory and motor dysfunction, severely impairing patient's quality of life.

21 Apr 2026