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.

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Insights into Oncofertility

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

What is Tumorigenesis?

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

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Cancer Prognosis

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Cancer Symptoms

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

What is Immunochemotherapy?

Cancer Pain

Secondary Lung Cancer

Pediatric Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

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

CDK9 and Cancer

What is Cancer?

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Cancer Glossary

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Cancer Research

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Classification

Cancer Diagnosis

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer History

Living with Cancer Pain

Cancer Management

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Plasticity: The Shape-Shifting Threat Challenging Modern Treatments

What Causes Cancer?

Latest Cancer News and Research

Study highlights potential of ferroptosis-based approaches to treat cancer

Therapies that target the utilization of fat by tumors and activate a type of cell death dependent on fat molecules may be a promising avenue to treat cancer, according to new research by UTHealth Houston.

14 Jan 2026

Bacterial metabolite enhances immune checkpoint therapy against lung cancer

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the response to lung cancer immunotherapy treatment in mice and can now be made into a drug for testing in humans.

14 Jan 2026

Polyamines reshape protein phosphorylation to guide key cellular fate decisions

Polyamines are small molecules naturally present in all cells and are critical in guiding cellular decisions, whereas an alteration in the abundance of these metabolites is invariably observed in pathological scenarios such as cancer or aging.

14 Jan 2026

Age-tailored therapies needed for treating the young and old with sepsis

Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and monitor its immune response to prevent collateral damage.

14 Jan 2026

Novel liquid biopsy technology could advance cancer diagnostics and monitoring

A novel liquid biopsy technology is set to advance cancer diagnostics and monitoring by overcoming the long-standing challenge of simultaneously achieving high sensitivity, broad coverage, and simple workflow.

14 Jan 2026

Lund researchers create "recipe book" for reprogramming immune cells to fight disease

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the "recipe" for the transformation.

14 Jan 2026

WSU study reveals gaps in end-of-life care education for doctors

Doctors encounter death and dying significantly more than most people. It's the price of saving lives and helping people.

14 Jan 2026

Bacterial toxin shrinks tumors, enhances immune response in colorectal cancer study

A toxin secreted by cholera bacteria can inhibit the growth of colorectal cancer without causing any measurable damage to the body. This is shown by a new study by researchers at Umeå University, Sweden.

14 Jan 2026

DLL3 on circulating tumor cells predicts tarlatamab success in lung cancer

A team led by investigators at the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute has discovered that a particular marker on tumor cells circulating in the blood indicates whether a patient with lung cancer will experience a lasting response to a newly approved immunotherapy called tarlatamab.

14 Jan 2026

New metabolomic signature predicts type 2 diabetes risk beyond traditional factors

Diabetes, a metabolic disease, is on the rise worldwide, and over 90 percent of cases are type 2 diabetes, where the body does not effectively respond to insulin.

14 Jan 2026

Vaccines are helping older people more than we knew

Let's be clear: The primary reason to be vaccinated against shingles is that two shots provide at least 90% protection against a painful, blistering disease that a third of Americans will suffer in their lifetimes, one that can cause lingering nerve pain and other nasty long-term consequences.

14 Jan 2026

Study explores how biological and environmental systems regulate body weight

Pennington Biomedical researchers recently investigated the systems of the body that regulate weight, exploring whether our bodies defend an established weight target or if our bodies operate within a broader range of tolerance before biological mechanisms are activated.

13 Jan 2026

Novel antibody shows promise in overcoming resistance to cancer immunotherapy

According to a Phase I study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, published today in Nature Medicine, the novel monoclonal antibody linavonkibart demonstrated the potential to overcome treatment resistance to anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitors in multiple cancer types.

13 Jan 2026

Preclinical study reveals potential new treatment for severe liver fibrosis

Researchers at McMaster University are leading preclinical studies into a novel drug candidate developed by Espervita Therapeutics that has the potential to prevent and reverse liver fibrosis - a dangerous, disease-induced build-up of scar tissue in the liver that often leads to cancer.

13 Jan 2026

Novel immunotherapy targeting pancreatic cancer shows promising results in phase 1/2 trial

A recent publication in Nature Medicine describes a novel immunotherapy targeting pancreatic cancer that has shown promising results in a first in-human phase 1/2 trial.

13 Jan 2026

Implanted vagus nerve stimulation device offers lasting relief for severe depression

About 20% of U.S. adults experience major depression in their lifetime. For most people, symptoms improve within a few treatment attempts, but up to one-third of patients have treatment-resistant depression, for which standard antidepressant medication or psychotherapy isn't enough.

13 Jan 2026