Treating Liver Cancer by Blocking Blood Flow to the Tumor
By: Anna Christou Physicians and scientists have been working to develop cancer therapies that are more personalized and that alsoContinue Reading
Category: Cancer
Immunotherapy: Attacking Cancer from the Inside Out
By: Clare Nimura Why can’t your immune system fight cancer the same way it fights a common cold? The immuneContinue Reading
Meat Consumption and Cancer
By: Yameng Zhang Edited by: Thomas Luh On October 26th 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), theContinue Reading
Finally, a light in the darkness: New genetic testing of tumors provides more accurate predictions than ever.
By Alex Bernstein Until quite recently, oncologists, despite all of the progress that has been made in the field, couldContinue Reading
Telomerase Mapped: Locating the “Fountain of Youth”
By Ian MacArthur In 1978 Elizabeth Blackburn and Joseph Gall published their work on telomeres, the regions on the endsContinue Reading
Even Devils Are No Match For a Contagious Cancer
The end of the Devil? Well, the Tasmanian devil that is. Sadly, that might well soon become a reality asContinue Reading
A Troubling Link Between Breast Cancer and the Environment
By Alex Bernstein In the late 1950’s, few doctors thought to take blood and urine samples for future use inContinue Reading