Cancer Research is branch of Science that deals with research topics related to tumors, to identify the cause for their appearance and to develop counter molecules for them. Cancer Research has evolved in a great extension which now includes the subjects of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Nanotechnology etc…
Cancer Research involves many interdisciplinary research areas. Researchers working on Cancer Research are often trained in all these areas.
Oncology is a branch of Medicines in which topics related to the prevention, Diagnosis and Cure for the Cancer are dealt.
Cancer, being a major reason for untimely deaths worldwide, has made this branch of Medicine to be taken seriously.