BY IGOR MATUSHANSKY, ROBERT MAKI – C/O AMERICAN SCIENTIST Although rare, cancers of the muscle, bone or fat carry the same molecular errors as other tumors, making them ideal subjects for the discovery of new therapies. A 50-year-old Finnish woman was having mild stomach pains when she went to see her doctor in 1996. The
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Why do the guidelines seem so contradictory, and how can we make sense of them? By Alexandra Ossola c/o Popular Science magazine -January 13, 2016 Mammogram These are images generated from a mammogram, a breast cancer screening test.slgckgc via Flickr, CC by 2.0 Last year, at the age of 43, Chicago-based writer Jessica Gardner had
A new AI system was able to identify cancer outcomes as well as human readers. By Nicole Wetsman c/o Popular Science magazine -July 25, 2019 A new machine learning system was able to identify cancer outcomes as well as human readers, and much more rapidly.Deposit Photos Doctors hope the future of cancer treatment is personal:
WE ARE ASTONISHINGLY GOOD AT CURING CHILDHOOD CANCER. WHY? By Alexandra Ossola c/o Popular Science magazine – October 8, 2015 When Maggie Rogers was four and a half years old, her kidney ruptured. She was playing with her dad, she recalls, and was running to jump on him, and when she landed she found herself
The price of supplements might be pretty steep. By Kendra Pierre-Louis c/o Popular Science magazine – August 23, 2017 Large doses of vitamin B might cause more harm than good.CITAlliance via Deposit Photos B vitamins are often sold with the promise of boosting flagging energy levels. But men who smoke might want to skip them,
Technology is rewriting diagnosis and treatment By Alexandra Ossola c/o Popular Science magazine – May 12, 2016 Cancerous HeLa cells under the microscope NIH via Wikimedia Commons At the beginning of the movie 50/50, Adam Lerner is diagnosed with neurofibrosarcoma, a cancer of the spine’s nerve tissue. Adam sits in his doctor’s office while the
An increased focus on early detection will be needed to effectively treat the disease By Claire Maldarelli c/o Popular Science magazine March 23, 2017 A breast cancer cell, photographed by a scanning electron microscope, which produces a 3-dimensional images.Wikimedia Commons Humans have forever questioned what causes human cancer. And we’ve come a long way: Early
Training the immune system to kill tumors c/o Popular Science magazine March 20, 2015 Immune Cells Courtesy imuc.com In the war against cancer, doctors have discovered a powerful new tool: the immune system. The FDA recently fast-tracked approval of three new immunotherapy drugs, called PD-1 inhibitors, designed to help white blood cells hunt down and
Your Microbiome May Hold Keys To Cancer Treatment The answer has been inside you all along By Alexandra Ossola c/o Popular Science Magazine April 2, 2015 Each microbiome is a snowflake. “Invisible Worlds” by MJ Richardson via geograph.org.uk. Today, the field of oncology is exploring new and diverse ways to fight cancer, from antibodies to
RESEARCHERS GROW BREAST TISSUE IN A LAB TO BETTER UNDERSTAND CANCERS THAT GROW THERE Original By Alexandra Ossola Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) A mammogram, used to identify cancerous breast tissue – Nevit Dilmen via Wikimedia Commons From edible meat to entire rat arms, scientists can grow pretty much anything in a petri dish. But