oncology
Could mRNA vaccines be the next frontier of cancer treatment?
Posted in Medicine on 20th Dec, 2021
by Alex Muller
A clinical trial is enrolling colorectal cancer patients to see whether a personalized mRNA vaccine can prevent their cancer from coming back.
Cancer: A risk factor for lung cancer is rising, it's not smoking and it affects us all
Posted in Medicine on 20th Dec, 2021
by Alex Muller
While smoking has declined, air pollution has begun to play a larger role in the development of lung cancer globally.
Book summary and review of "The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer"
Posted in Reviews, Science on 20th Sep, 2021
by Alex Muller
A brief Outline and Book review: We are now at the beginning of what looks to be a transformative and transitional era in cancer care, with the advent of a fifth method that could someday replace all the others: cancer immunotherapy.
Book review and Summary of The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
Posted in Medicine, Reviews, Science on 20th Aug, 2021
by Alex Muller
The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer, urges us to go beyond the basic hallmarks, to understand cancer; and, in so doing, to think of new ways to prevent and treat the disease.
Rebel Cell: Book Review
Posted in Medicine, Reviews, Science on 27th Jun, 2021
by Alex Muller
Geneticist and award-winning science writer Kat Arney takes the reader back to the dawn of life on planet Earth right up to the present day to get to the heart of what cancer really is and how by better understanding it we might one day overcome it. There is PTN's review of the book.