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Fighting Cancer Through the Study of Sarcomas

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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The Confounding Commandments Of Cancer Screening

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

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Artificial intelligence is taking an increased role in diagnosing and treating cancer

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:

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Learning from the Children

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

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Taking loads of vitamin B could increase your risk of lung cancer

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,

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How The Meaning Of Cancer Has Changed

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

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Two thirds of cancer mutations result from completely random DNA mistakes

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

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How It Works: Cancer-Fighting Immunotherapy

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

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Your Microbiome May Hold Keys To Cancer Treatment

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

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Lab Grown Breast Tissue for Cancer Treatment Tests

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

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