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.

Cancer Screening Considerations: Balancing the Benefits and Risks

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Myc Mutations and Cancer

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Cancer Pain

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

Cancer Epidemiology

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

Cancer Research

Insight into Cancer Vaccines

Secondary Lung Cancer

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What is Cancer?

Pediatric Cancer

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

What is Immunochemotherapy?

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Cancer Symptoms

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Cancer Classification

Cancer History

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Prognosis

Targeted Cancer Therapies

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

What is Tumorigenesis?

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

Proto-Oncogene Activation: The Genetic Shift that Fuels Cancer

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Cancer Pain Management

Insights into Oncofertility

Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Cancer Mortality

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Living with Cancer Pain

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Secondary Brain Cancer

Cancer Management

CDK9 and Cancer

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Cancer Pathophysiology

Cancer Glossary

What Causes Cancer?

Latest Cancer News and Research

Understanding the importance of B vitamins for health

Eight different vitamins make up the B complex, and they all play crucial roles in the body, such as producing energy, keeping our nervous system healthy, and supporting cell development.

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Work requirements and red tape ahead for millions on Medicaid

Now that the Republicans' big tax-and-spending bill has become law, new bureaucratic hurdles have emerged for millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid for health coverage.

4 Aug 2025

Eating more ultra-processed food raises your risk of lung cancer

The association between ultra-processed food consumption and lung cancer risk underscores the importance of nutrition in cancer prevention strategies.

4 Aug 2025

New research unveils vast influence of B vitamins on health and disease

Eight essential nutrients make up the suite of B vitamins also known as the B complex. Researchers from Tufts University and elsewhere have revealed that these B vitamins influence a vast spectrum of human health and disease, including cognitive function, cardiovascular health, gastric bypass recovery, neural tube defects, and even cancer.

4 Aug 2025

Johns Hopkins uncovers protein's unexpected role in brain signaling

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein's special role in getting brain cells to communicate at the right time and place in experiments with genetically engineered mice.

4 Aug 2025

Dual tobacco use: Examining patterns in Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black men with chronic illness

Cannabis use is gaining popularity in the United States, driven by growing legalization, public acceptance and diverse methods of consumption.

4 Aug 2025

Key protein found to guide melanoma cells during spread

Researchers have discovered a protein which is critical for steering melanoma cancer cells as they spread throughout the body.

1 Aug 2025

Unraveling the mysteries of post-acute infection syndromes

In recent years, doctors and scientists are increasingly studying long-lasting illnesses that begin after someone recovers from an infection.

1 Aug 2025

New approach preserves insulin-producing cells in diabetes model

Scientific breakthroughs in one disease don't always shed light on treating other diseases. But that's been the surprising journey of one Mayo Clinic research team.

1 Aug 2025

Advanced form of AI opens door to personalized cancer care

What if a computer could read a patient's medical notes and help doctors determine important information for their treatment?

1 Aug 2025

Unlocking the power of stereochemistry to improve mRNA drug delivery

A team from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Hokkaido University, and Osaka University has discovered that subtle differences in molecular structure can have a major impact on the performance of mRNA-based drugs.

1 Aug 2025

Healing with Artificial Intelligence highlights the future of patient care

AI-based medicine will revolutionize care including for Alzheimer's and diabetes, predicts a technology expert, but it must be accessible to all patients.

1 Aug 2025

Nordic study finds nasogastric tubes reduce complications after esophageal cancer surgery

In the largest Nordic study to date concerning esophageal cancer surgery, the researchers found clear evidence that decompression with a nasogastric tube is associated with less serious complications.

1 Aug 2025

ChatGPT helps speed up patient screening for clinical trials

A new study in the academic journal Machine Learning: Health discovers that ChatGPT can accelerate patient screening for clinical trials, showing promise in reducing delays and improving trial success rates.

1 Aug 2025

Moffitt launches research-driven initiative to improve outcomes for Black lung cancer patients

Lung cancer, particularly non-small cell lung cancer, affects millions of people worldwide, but the survival rates and access to care are notably lower among Black patients.

1 Aug 2025

New radioimmunotherapy approach eliminates cancer stem cells in preclinical models of ovarian cancer

A new radioimmunotherapy approach has been shown to successfully eliminate cancer stem cells (CSCs) in preclinical models of ovarian cancer, outperforming the current gold standard.

1 Aug 2025

New AI model performs medical image segmentation with far less data

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool could make it much easier-and cheaper-for doctors and researchers to train medical imaging software, even when only a small number of patient scans are available.

1 Aug 2025

AI-designed protein activates Notch signaling pathway to boost T-cell production

A new paper published today in Cell highlights how researchers have leveraged AI-based computational protein design to create a novel synthetic ligand that activates the Notch signaling pathway, a key driver in T-cell development and function.

1 Aug 2025

Two-drug combo shows durable benefit in advanced kidney cancer

A two-drug combination for treating advanced kidney cancer had sustained and durable clinical benefit in more than five years of follow-up, according to a study published Aug. 1 in Nature Medicine.

1 Aug 2025

Salk Institute's ShortStop revolutionizes genetic search

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these large molecules have cast a long shadow over a smaller subclass of proteins called microproteins.

1 Aug 2025