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.

What is Cancer?

Cancer is refers to a group of more than a hundred diseases that can originate in many different parts of the body.

What Role do Biobanks Play in Cancer Research?

Is Cancer a Metabolic Disorder?

The Effects of Cancer on Family Life

Cancer Prevention: Lowering your Risk

Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Malignancy

What is Cancer of Unknown Primary?

Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

British Pioneers in Cancer Biology

Assay for Monitoring and Treating Malignant Brain Tumors

Extracellular Vesicles as Floating Cancer Biomarkers

Microfluidic cancer treatment screen combined with flow cytometry

Overview of Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity

Using Biomarkers to Detect Cancer

Why are Cancer Cell Lines Useful?

Hypoxia Markers and Their Importance

What is the Tumor Microenvironment?

Metastatic Migration in Cancer may be Influenced by Metabolism

The Cancer Cell Surface Proteome as a Therapeutic Target

How Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors have Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

How Camomile Could Prevent Neutropenia in Pediatric Leukemia Patients

TARDIS: The Improved Method of Detecting Breast Cancer

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

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

Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer

Acidosis and Tumor Progression

What is Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The Biochemistry of Breast Cancer Screening

Hot vs Cold: the differences between tumor types

Transforming Cancer Care through Genomic Testing

Exploiting Enzymes in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Latest Cancer News and Research

USC Nursing Institute launched to promote education, leadership and excellence among nurses

Keck Medicine of USC has launched the USC Nursing Institute to promote education, leadership development, clinical expertise and research among nurses.

9 May 2024

Women’s health in the UK stagnates while other countries progress

Latest data emphasises health gaps and the need for improvements in women’s health, particularly in preventive, emotional and pregnancy care.

From Hologic, Inc. 9 May 2024

Higher consumption of ultra-processed foods linked to elevated mortality risk

The relationship between ultra-processed food (UPF) intake and all-cause and cause-specific death.

9 May 2024

Ultra-processed foods linked to higher risk of death in long-term study

Higher consumption of most ultra-processed foods is linked to a slightly higher risk of death, with ready-to-eat meat, poultry, and seafood based products, sugary drinks, dairy based desserts, and highly processed breakfast foods showing the strongest associations, finds a 30-year US study in The BMJ today.

8 May 2024

Cross-species liver cell growth could represent a solution to transplant shortage

Liver disease, due to viral infections, alcohol abuse, obesity, or cancer, accounts for 1 in every 25 deaths worldwide.

8 May 2024

Higher cardiorespiratory fitness levels linked to dramatically lower mortality and disease risks, study finds

A study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, aggregating over 20.9 million observations, shows cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) as a consistent predictor of reduced morbidity and mortality across various health outcomes in adults.

8 May 2024

Researchers enhance CAR-T cells to target solid tumors

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute-designated Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC) have shown that a breakthrough therapy for treating blood cancers can be adapted to treat solid tumors-;an advance that could transform cancer treatment.

8 May 2024

New tool more accurately predicts an individual's 10-year risk of cardiovascular diseases

Collaborative research, led from the University of Oxford and published today in Nature Medicine, has developed a new tool called QR4 that more accurately predicts an individual's 10-year risk of cardiovascular diseases, like heart disease and stroke, particularly identifying high-risk patients that current prediction tools miss.

8 May 2024

New technique enables detailed mapping of proteins in individual cells

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet, together with Pixelgen Technologies, have developed and applied a technique that makes it possible to map proteins in individual cells in a completely new way, according to a new study in Nature Methods.

8 May 2024

Intermittent fasting halts liver disease progression and reduces cancer risk

Fatty liver disease often leads to chronic liver inflammation and can even result in liver cancer. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the University of Tübingen have now shown in mice that intermittent fasting on a 5:2 schedule can halt this development.

8 May 2024

High salt consumption linked to 40% higher stomach cancer risk

In Asian countries, where high-salt foods are popular, the link between high salt consumption and stomach cancer has already been proven.

8 May 2024

Forget ringing the button for the nurse. Patients now stay connected by wearing one.

Patients admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital get a monitoring device about the size of a half-dollar affixed to their chest — and an unwitting role in the expanding use of artificial intelligence in health care.

8 May 2024

University of Liverpool invests £1M in state-of-the-art teaching facilities for healthcare students

The University of Liverpool has invested more than £1m in new state-of-the-art teaching facilities, that are set to give healthcare students unique opportunities to learn. The Florence Nightingale and Rose Thompson Suites in the School of Allied Health Professions and Nursing are now open.

8 May 2024

TIME reveals new list recognizing the 100 most influential individuals in health

Today, TIME reveals the inaugural TIME100 Health list recognizing the 100 most influential individuals in health.

8 May 2024

Olive oil – 7 grams per day may keep the dementia away!

A large-scale study published in JAMA Network Open shows that daily consumption of seven or more grams of olive oil can reduce dementia-related mortality by 28% among American adults, underscoring the role of dietary habits in managing age-related cognitive decline.

8 May 2024

AI-driven model identifies potent cancer-killing immune cells for personalized immunotherapy

Using artificial intelligence, Ludwig Cancer Research scientists have developed a powerful predictive model for identifying the most potent cancer killing immune cells for use in cancer immunotherapies.

7 May 2024

Firefighters at increased risk of prostate cancer due to chemical exposures, study reveals

Firefighters may have an increased risk of prostate cancer due to on-the-job chemical exposures, according to new research from the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and University of Michigan in collaboration with fire service partners and researchers around the country through the Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study.

7 May 2024

UQ's AMTAR hub advances the development of hyper-accurate cancer drugs

A range of hyper accurate cancer drugs is in production at a newly opened research and manufacturing hub at The University of Queensland.

7 May 2024

New PET imaging agent shows promise in visualizing lesions in clear cell renal cell cancer patients

A novel investigational PET imaging agent can rapidly and accurately visualize lesions in clear cell renal cell cancer (ccRCC) patients according to new research published in the May issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

7 May 2024

Navigating the risks of patient access to immediate test results: A physician's perspective

In a fast-paced digital age where patients can open their test results as soon as they are available, what happens when a patient reads through complicated results without a physician there to help them understand what it all means? And what happens when a patient misinterprets bad news as good news, or vice versa?

7 May 2024