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The move by President Joe Biden on plans to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 per cent over the next 25 years is praiseworthy. It is part of an effort to revive the “Cancer Moonshot” initiative to speed research and make more treatments
A hot bowl of pad thai simmers in front of you. The taste and texture is exactly what you might expect from a quick takeout dinner, but it’s not just a meal – it’s medicine. This hypothetical bowl of pad thai, would be part of a cancer-fighting regimen created by startup Faeth Therapeutics. The meal […]
Student Snapshot: Keagan Hesse '22 - “I transferred to Dickinson because I wanted to be challenged, and because of the professional connections I knew I would be able to make.” Meet Keagan Hesse ’22, who plans a career in oncology.
Edward Herrmann had collapsed at the studio in New York, and no one knew why. The actor had arrived to record his narrator part for Ken Burns’ latest documentary epic for PBS, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.” The three-part, six-hour film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, traces the story of the disease from its earliest accounts in ancient Egypt to the latest scientific breakthroughs and their impact on real-life patients. Herrmann , a favorite collaborator of Burns’, was helped up by colleagues after he had crumpled to the floor and w...
Surgical oncologist Lori Wilson is featured in the Ken Burns Documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies, as she battles breast cancer.