4 Suggestions for Halting the Lethality of Cancer

June 26, 2012, 8:30 am by Scientific American: Health

Brain tumor cells, from Ignatova et al., Glia, 2002 I had a very strange week. While in Washington, D.C., writing news releases , for the Model Organisms to Human Biology: Cancer Genetics meeting sponsored by the Genetics Society of America, I had left, back home in upstate New York, my dear hospice patient. Ruth was nearing the end of her battle with liver cancer. It was jarring to go from holding her hand to listening to litanies of deranged signal transduction pathways and cascades of mutations that cause the damn diseases. [More]

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