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10/28/2022

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01/25/2020

https://apple.news/AhROx_jsnT3iTdG2kDYVtTA

The country's first carbon ion therapy center to treat cancer is being built in partnership with Hitachi on the campus of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.

06/13/2019

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-11/drug-to-replace-chemotherapy-may-reshape-cancer-care

A class of drugs is emerging that can attack cancer cells in the body without damaging surrounding healthy ones. They have the potential to replace chemotherapy and its disruptive side effects, reshaping the future of cancer care.

02/19/2019

An inspiring story shared by one of our community .... thank you.

Cancer survivor Marcus Cato met Matene Cates, who saved his life with a bone marrow transplant, at a DKMS gala in New York City. The Fresno State student and Clovis North High School graduate was diagnosed with leukemia. More minority donors are needed.

01/24/2019

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09/16/2018

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/turning-off-cancers-immortality-switch-2443684

Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a way to cut off cancer’s ability to divide indefinitely, allowing it to reproduce itself over and over and spread throughout the body. Using CRISPR...

08/12/2018

Your genes may hold the key to curing cancer, groundbreaking therapies suggest - OZY NEWS

Personalized immunotherapy is emerging as the latest frontier in cancer treatment.

07/20/2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/health/gene-editing-cancer.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_sc_20180716&nl=science-times&nl_art=1&nlid=61818709emc%3Dedit_sc_20180716&ref=headline&te=1

Scientists report that they have discovered a way to tweak genes in the body’s immune cells by using electrical fields.

06/07/2018

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article210723654.html

Cancer survivor Marcus Cato met Matene Cates, who saved his life with a bone marrow transplant, at a DKMS gala in New York City. The Fresno State student and Clovis North High School graduate was diagnosed with leukemia. More minority donors are needed.

06/03/2018

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/how-viruses-can-be-used-to-kill-cancer-1302868

Researchers from Umeå University in Sweden have identified a virus with a natural taste for cancer cells. The virus in question, known as HAdV-52, possesses a protein that really likes to bind with a type of acid that often shows up in certain lung and brain tumors that are particularly difficult ...

03/05/2018

Gene therapy was a boy’s last chance to stop leukemia. And it worked. - PBS NewsHourhttps://apple.news/Aiei0XkwMQAumQhTOHgbsiA