Janet Freeman-Daily: On Lung Cancer and Blame
With a background in engineering and science, Janet Freeman-Daily has used social media to educate and unite patients to help advance research on a rare genomic mutation in lung cancer. Freeman-Daily, who was diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer in 2011, never smoked. “The more we’ve learned about the genomic drivers of cancer, the more we’ve discovered that any patient can have a genomic driver. It doesn’t matter whether we smoked or not, so why are we blaming people for having lung cancer?”
Cancer Talk
Support groups offer community for people with cancer in a world that doesn’t understand their experience.
by Carly Flumer
Making Informed Consent AccessibleConfusing informed consent forms are a common barrier to clinical trial participation. Researchers ask how they can be better designed for patients.
by Sandra Gordon
Keep That Colonoscopy AppointmentExperts weigh in on a recent study appearing to show that colonoscopy had lower-than-expected efficacy for preventing colorectal cancer.
by Pamela Rafalow Grossman
What We Know About Ultraprocessed Foods and Cancer RiskResearch has linked highly processed foods like deli meat to a higher risk of colorectal cancer in men.
by Jon Kelvey
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AACR Cancer Progress Report
The vital importance of research for improving health and saving lives from cancer is highlighted in this twelfth edition of the annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Cancer Progress Report.
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How Our Senses Affect Cancer Development
Dr. Patricia LoRusso’s parents both died of cancer when she was a teenager, inspiring her to become an oncologist and focus on developing new treatments for people with cancer.
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