Reading time: 3 minutes Korliss Britt Low levels of myoglobin in breast cancer is a significant factor in prognosis of the disease. Since cancer cells have high metabolic requirements, these cells …

Reading time: 4 minutes Cameron Van Cleave Introduction If you haven’t heard of amyloid light chain (AL) amyloidosis, you aren’t alone. According to the Amyloidosis Foundation, 4,500 new cases are …

Reading time: 4 minutes Hema Saranya Ilamathi Diet plays a powerful but often misunderstood role in shaping our long‑term cancer risk. While scientific studies have explored this connection for dec…

Reading time: 4 minutes Rafaela Muniz de Queiroz When you search online or hear explanations about how cancer develops, you have probably come across something along the lines of: “cancer arises wh…

Reading time: 5 minutes Dr. Ludmila Peres Diaz An unexpected turn in the storyline is one of the most valuable tools novelists use to keep the audience engaged. The sudden death of a beloved charac…

Reading time: 5 minutes Charles Okila, MPH Clinical trials provide an avenue for many patients suffering from cancer to obtain access to new therapies and more intensive care. However, only a small…

Reading time: 5 minutes Sandhyaa Venkatachalam Cervical cancer is jinxed in the world of oncology: caused by a high-risk HPV (Human papillomavirus) infection in the uterine cervix (lower part of th…

Reading time: 4 minutes Anthony Tao Cancer treatment is being reshaped by drugs that modulate the immune system (aka immunotherapy), yet many patients still fail to benefit from these powerful drug…

Reading time: 4 minutes Mia Hubert Running is widely considered one of the healthiest and most accessible habits you can adopt. It has proven cardiovascular benefits, improves mood and cognition, a…

Reading time: 4 minutes Unmila P. Jhuti, PhD Brain metastasis is the deadliest yet least understood type of metastasis. Recent research showed that some tumors not only survive in the brain atmosph…

Reading time: 4 minutes Cameron Van Cleave The bone marrow is more than just blood cells. It’s a complex mixture of blood vessels, stem cells, immune cells, and even fat cells.1 There is a lot of c…

Reading time: 5 minutes Madeline J. Morrisson Ovarian Cancer Ovarian cancer (OC) is the deadliest gynecological malignancy. High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is the most prevalent subtype…

Reading time: 7 minutes Ludmila Peres Diaz, PhD The human body is a highly coordinated biological machine that responds synchronously to a wide variety of internal and external stimuli. Therefore, …

Reading time: 4 minutes Florence Roan In 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lifileucel for the treatment of advanced melanoma. Lifileucel’s approval marked dual milestones. It…

Reading time: 8 minutes Colin Ong Druggable and undruggable targets in cancer Drug discovery in cancer has always been arduous. A major milestone in aiding our understanding and discovery of cancer…

Reading time: 2 minutes Krishnakoli Adhikary, PhD Cancer is the second most leading cause of death in the world after ischemic heart disease. Global reports suggest that by 2030, the total number o…

Reading time: 6 minutes Chris Wang From the initial discovery in the early 2000s that low intensity, intermediate frequency (150-200 KHz), alternating electric fields can inhibit growth of cancer c…

Reading time: 6 minutes Xanthea Heighington Introduction Colorectal cancer survival rates are improving, with the American Cancer Society recently having reported a 1.5% decrease in deaths associat…

Reading time: 5 minutes Laura Urbina Jara How AI works in breast cancer detection Today, it may seem that AI is present in different fields, and the medical field is no exception. Physicians are cu…

Reading time: 5 minutes Sandhyaa Venkatachalam Treating cancers, which can be as unpredictable as loose cannons, is an uphill battle even now in the age of modern medicine. Most cancer treatments r…

Reading time: 5 minutes Nancy Paz Can scientists predict which nutrients facilitate the metastatic potential of cancer? Just like humans, cancer cells will get off the sofa for their favorite snack…

Reading time: 4 minutes Madeline J. Morrisson What are miRNAs? Within a cell, information flows from DNA to RNA to protein, in a process known as the Central Dogma of biology. RNA is a relatively s…

Reading time: 4 minutes Anthony Tao Since the public introduction of ChatGPT in 2020, large language models (LLMs) have become an emerging cornerstone of modern technology. In healthcare, LLMs have…

Reading time: 9 minutes Neha Rai Introduction Most of us think that obesity increases the risk of breast cancer, and we try different kinds of diets to reduce the risk of cancer. But how obesity sp…

Reading time: 5 minutes Xanthea Heighington Colorectal cancer is the third most prevalent cancer in the world. Despite significant advancements in screening and treatment, it remains the cause of 9…

Reading time: 8 minutes Dr. Maanya Rajasree Katta Introduction When a doctor says “you have cancer,” a stack of choices follows, each with trade-offs. Start with surgery or chemotherapy? Add immuno…

Reading time: 4 minutes Sunetra Sen, Ph.D. Cell division is an organism’s natural mechanism of growth, renewal, and repair. Ironically, every time a cell divides, it carries a small but non-negligi…

Reading time: 5 minutes Anamika Bandyopadhyay, PhDChemotherapy transformed cancer treatments in the 20th century, but its lack of specificity remained a major limitation throughout. As time progres…

Reading time: 3 minutes Dr. Preeti Roman Cancer is a major cause of sickness and death worldwide1. In 2022, doctors found 20 million new cancer cases2 and nearly 10 million people died from cancer …

Reading time: 3 minutes Victoria Gnazzo Pollution Beyond the Ocean For many years, we have seen plastic pollution through heartbreaking images, like whales filled with plastic and turtles caught in…

Reading time: 4 minutes Susy Prieto Huarcaya, PhD For families facing diffuse midline glioma, time often feels painfully short and options even shorter. That’s why the FDA’s approval of dordavipron…

Reading time: 4 minutes Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga If people were asked to name an organelle inside the cell, the word “mitochondria” would certainly pop into most people’s heads. While we a…

Reading time: 9 minutes Preeti Prangya Panda Cancer is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, with about 10 million deaths annually. Treatment outcomes are normally stage-sensitive, i.e., the so…

Reading Time: 3 mins  Libby-Ann Harpaul-Sahadeo  What is Multiple Myeloma?  Multiple myeloma (MM) is a blood cancer that may sometimes present as tumors called plasmacytomas, which a…

Reading time: 13 minutes (special: includes a pre- and post-article quiz activity!) Néstor Zumaya Image from: Bock AM, Narendranath Epperla. Therapeutic landscape of primary refractory and relapsed…

Reading time: 7 minutes Lubna Najm Ovarian cancer is one of the top ten most common malignancies to affect women and females worldwide (NIH National Cancer Institute, 2025; Wang et al., 2025), with…

Reading time: 5 minutes Maanya Rajasree Katta Introduction If you have delayed a colonoscopy, you are not alone. The preparation is lengthy, the cleanse is uncomfortable, and sedation can disrupt a…

Reading time: 6 minutes Shashank Gidipally, PharmD. Challenge of Bringing Precision Oncology to Skin Cancer Care in Community Settings In the last decade, skin cancer treatment has gone under a big…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Libby-Ann Harpaul-Sahadeo  Chemotherapy is a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in the body. It is most often used to treat cancer. Taxan…

Keyword: Preclinical oncology imaging Reading time: 6 minutes Bethany Cooper Introduction With almost 10 million deaths from cancer in 2020, it is the leading cause of death globally, accounting fo…

Reading time: 5 minutes Anthony Tao Introduction For cancer to successfully grow, one of the major obstacles it must face is the immune system. Cells of the immune system, such as T cells, have nat…

Reading time: 8 minutes Colin Ong Altered Metabolism in Cancer Cells Metabolic rewiring is one of the key features of cancer cells1. These cells display altered metabolism as a way to meet their co…

Reading time: 3 minutes Patty Spears One of the most valuable contributions a patient can make to science is to donate tumor tissue for research. It is important to use the tissue in research in a …

Reading time: 5 minutes Anna Salamero Boix The tumor microenvironment has emerged as a potential therapeutic target in cancer therapy. Within the tumor microenvironment, tumor-associated immune cel…