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Cancer disparities cost lives and researchers push to understand what is behind these gaps. Federal funding for such work has slowed since last year. Andrew Brookes/Image

Originally developed to help control epilepsy, the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet has since been investigated for everything from weight loss to Alzheimer’s disease – and even as a potential way to influence cancer

MIT researchers have found that a ketogenic high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet fuels the growth of intestinal tumors. Anne Trafton|MIT News Publication Date: July 15, 2026

Poolbeg Pharma (LSE:POLB) has raised £3.5 million through a placing of 58.3 million new ordinary shares at 6 pence each, representing a 16% discount to the previous closing price. Executive Chair Cathal Friel participated in the fundraising with a £250,000 investment

Music, dance and meditation couldn’t change the outcome of Benjamin Goldberg’s battle with neuroblastoma, a rare nerve tissue cancer that took his life at age 8

While scientific advancements in the fight against cancer have improved the lives of millions of people, that progress hasn’t been spread evenly around the world. Inequities in health care will contribute to cancer cases nearly doubling in the next 25 years, warns the World Health Organization (WHO)

During the check-up, Cheng chose to undergo lung cancer screening with a low-dose CT scan. The scan revealed a pulmonary nodule measuring approximately 7mm

Cancer is no longer a disease that afeels distant. Almost every family today knows someone who has battled it, a parent, sibling, colleague or friend. The numbers behind that experience are becoming even more alarming.The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the world could see nearly 35 million new cancer cases every year by…

Amid unprecedented leadership uncertainty, workforce attrition and myriad controversial decisions, the FDA approved 26 novel drugs in the first half of 2026—seven more than its H1 2025 total

The disease will touch 92% of people globally, finds annual review, while ‘persistent’ inequities found to exist in access to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care