Cancer cells love glycolysis, which is the biochemical version of living on delivery fries and somehow still making it to work. Even when oxygen is around, many tumors burn through glucose and spit out lactate. In osteosarcoma, that matters because lactate is not just metabolic litter. It changes...
Phrenology once convinced people you could explain the mind by reading bumps on a skull. Cute idea, terrible science. Cancer research has its own version of that mistake when we treat a tumor like it is just a pile of rogue cells and forget the whole miserable workplace around it. This paper argues...
Under the sales pitch, though, sits a serious question. A 2026 Journal of Clinical Oncology commentary with the wonderfully shady title Notably Off Key asks whether the applause around the phase 3 KEYNOTE-689 trial might be a little too loud.[1] Translation: yes, perioperative pembrolizumab helped...
The old ADC story was clean and satisfying: find the cancer cell, dock, enter, release payload, cue dramatic explosion. Tumors, naturally, refused to cooperate. Breast cancers are patchy. One region waves the HER2 flag, another barely mutters it. Some cells internalize drugs nicely, others act like...
What makes a cell itself - its DNA, its habits, or the tiny chemical Post-it notes slapped onto the messages it sends all day? That question sits underneath a new April 22, 2026 review in Molecular Cancer, and the answer is delightfully unsettling: in pancreatic cancer, some of the most important...
This study reads like a casino caper: the tumor thinks it has slipped past security in a very average-looking pancreas, and then an AI model strolls in, checks the grain of the wallpaper, and says, "Cute try." In a new Gut paper, researchers built a system called REDMOD that tries to spot...
If this study were a prestige TV drama, the surgeons would spend an entire season pulling off a heroic finale, only for the villain to sneak back into the same apartment building through the side door. That, in plain English, is the problem with colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver: even...
Breast cancer is not one disease wearing one trench coat. It is a whole cast of subtypes, each with its own habits, mood swings, and talent for causing trouble. That is why immunotherapy has looked brilliant in some patients and shrug-worthy in others. The new review by Shichkin and colleagues maps...
Colorectal cancer used to behave like a stew you forgot on the back burner - mostly a problem that showed up later, after years of simmering. Now it is barging into the kitchen early, showing up in younger adults and in more parts of the world, which is less "grandma's slow recipe" and more "who...
Going once, going twice, sold - not to miracle hype, but to something much rarer in relapsed peripheral T-cell lymphoma: a result that actually makes oncologists put down their coffee and squint at the screen again.
If you learned about lysosomes in school, you probably got the discount version: they're the cell's garbage disposals. Which is true in the same way calling a hospital "a building with chairs" is technically true but emotionally unsatisfying.
Dispatch from inside the liver: the streets are slick with fat, oxidative stress is drifting through the air like tear gas, and the dendritic cells - the immune system's field reporters - are going down before they can get the message to the CD8 T-cell cavalry.
Blood cancers during pregnancy are rare, but rare does not mean simple. It means every decision feels like it was designed by a committee of chaos goblins. The doctor is not just treating a cancer. They are balancing the health of the pregnant patient, the timing of the pregnancy, the type of...
The ending first: tumors can sometimes be shoved from "immune dead zone" to "active crime scene" with engineered viruses and cytokine gene therapy. The rewind is where it gets weird, because yes, this means doctors are using carefully modified viruses to make cancer more visible to your immune...
What is identity, really, if not a pattern that keeps reappearing even when the furniture changes? Cancer, annoyingly enough, seems to agree, because a large B-cell lymphoma can leave behind tiny molecular fingerprints in the bloodstream long before a scan fully settles the argument.
Help wanted: Star-shaped brain cell seeks flexible role in neighborhood management. Duties include feeding neurons, keeping the blood-brain barrier tidy, and, under unfortunate management, helping a tumor tell the immune system to take a very long coffee break.
Things follicular lymphoma cells are good at: dodging the immune system, staging comebacks after treatment, and - apparently - ignoring the genetic instruction manual that's supposed to keep them from going rogue. A new drug called abexinostat is here to fix that last one, and the results are...
Hodgkin lymphoma has one of the better reputations in cancer medicine, which sounds nice until you realize "better reputation" can hide a lot of mess. Cure rates are high. Treatments keep improving. Doctors have gotten much better at knocking the disease down. But this new Danish study asks the...
A quick translation. DNA methylation does not rewrite the genetic code. It acts more like editorial markup on top of it. Same script, different stage directions. In cancer, those stage directions can get weird fast.
