cancer
Viewpoint: I wish I learned about my breast cancer risk from a genetic counselor instead of 23andMe
I opened the email from 23andMe, saying a report was ready for me to read. That click changed my life ...
New cancer-fighting strategy: Coaxing breast cancer cells to turn into harmless fat cells
Researchers have been able to coax human breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells in a new proof-of-concept study ...
Infographic: Building personalized cancer vaccines
To create an individualized cancer vaccine, researchers must identify cancer-specific peptides called neoantigens, then use a cell-, protein-, or nucleic ...
Darwin’s theory of evolution suggests a new approach for treating cancer
Cancers that have spread, known as metastatic disease, are rarely curable. The reasons that patients die despite effective treatment are ...
Viewpoint: Aggressive US approach to cancer doing ‘more harm than good’
To paraphrase [author and oncologist Siddhartha] Mukherjee, testing represents an inversion—or perversion--of the Hippocratic oath to do no harm. A ...
Viewpoint: Why science hasn’t given us a cure for cancer: We’re still ‘trying to understand it’
Each permutation of cancer requires a different approach, therapy, or method of management ...
Viewpoint: Pouring greed on an ethical fire—Questionable ‘litigation finance’ scam funds glyphosate-cancer lawsuit mill
Greed is being poured on an ethical fire ...
‘Cancer lab’ on a chip could move diagnosis into our homes
Finding out you have cancer is bad enough, but to then have to go to hospital for a painful and ...
Fighting cancer by stimulating the immune system with injections directly into the tumor
This past April, Mount Sinai oncologist Joshua Brody and his team announced a clinical trial that delivers immune modulators directly ...
DNA, fruit flies and the quest to treat cancer with precision medicine
"Cancer therapy is becoming customized to each patient." ...
Podcast: Should you get your entire genome sequenced? The pros and cons of diving into your DNA
Given how little we know about how variations in the genome affect health and disease, is direct-to-consumer whole genome sequencing ...
Podcast: Glyphosate, cancer and ‘corporate conspiracies’–“Regulatory capture” by anti-science activists in the Roundup controversy
Our useful threat-detection instinct has been warped into a serious handicap as we attempt to evaluate risks to our health ...
Priming the body’s immune system with personalized cancer vaccines
In 2014, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, six melanoma patients received infusions of an anticancer vaccine ...
Video: Targeting glioblastoma and other deadly cancers with nanoparticles, chemotherapy
Nanoparticles are capable of carrying chemotherapy to areas of the body afflicted by cancer. However, what if these nanoparticles were ...
Viewpoint: AI promises to revolutionize personalized medicine. Now we need ‘clinical validation’.
Machines can now be trained to see things humans cannot, and likely never will. ... From obviating the need to ...
Inaccuracies in consumer genetic tests for BRCA mutations prompt call for crackdown from UK doctors
Senior doctors have called for a crackdown on consumer genetic tests, following an influx of patients who have been wrongly ...
Viewpoint: Genetically modified plants could produce drugs of the future—if we do more to encourage ‘pharming’
Politicians talk a lot about farming but seldom about “pharming,” even though the latter can also have a big impact ...
‘Cancer vaccine’ boosts survival rates when combined with immunotherapy drugs in small study
The largest study to date of a “cancer vaccine” plus one of the immunotherapy drugs that has revolutionized cancer treatment ...
Why unproven alternative cancer treatments are so dangerous
Cancer is oppressive and all-pervasive: half of us alive today will experience a direct brush with it. But despite its ...
How man’s best friend is helping us battle cancer
[T]he Moonshot initiative is promoting new ways to study cancer, particularly in the promising area of immunotherapy. And it specifically ...
Viewpoint: There’s a reason we haven’t cured cancer. It has nothing to do with ‘leadership, motivation, or funding’
Although fighting cancer is an admirable cause, there are many things standing in our way of a universal cure, such ...
UK pushes to cut cancer rates by expanding HPV vaccinations to preteen boys
From September 2019, boys in school year 8 will be offered the free Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine for the ...
Viewpoint: YouTube, Facebook and Google should do more to stop spread of dangerous cancer quackery
Many outlets are covering the story of Mari Lopez, a YouTuber who claimed, along with her niece, Liz Johnson, that ...
AI promises to improve cancer care through precision medicine. Oncologists are starting to agree.
To get a better handle on the collective “take” on artificial intelligence for cancer care, my colleagues and I at ...
The ‘secretive’ nonprofit CERT made millions off California Prop 65 lawsuits. Where’d the money go?
Warning! Chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and reproductive toxicity, including acrylamide, are present in coffee ...
Night owls may have a greater risk of breast cancer, study says. But altering sleep habits is unlikely to change that.
Sleep traits could be a risk factor for breast cancer, new research suggests. Women who said they preferred to get ...
Artificial intelligence could change the way we detect, treat breast cancer
The same technology that powers Siri and face recognition on your iPhone has also found success in medicine. By automatically ...
