3 December 2011 How will we treat the cancer of the future? Sequence a patient’s genome, and the cancer’s! If you just let out a gasp of...

25 November 2011 This week’s question is not so much about cancer research as it is about cancer researchers and the general structure of...

(Back to Cancer for Dummies main page for additional topics) 13 November 2011 I wrote on this topic a while ago, and figured it would be...

6 November 2011 Original Research Commentary Article Everyone gets older, but what exactly is aging? Everyone is familiar with getting...

30 October 2011 Dollar-wise, how much is a life worth? How much are we as a society willing to pay to “save” a life? Even so, are we...

23 October 2011 Jobs was a savvy businessman and one of the visionaries of our time. In his famous 2005 commencement address to Stanford...

16 October 2011 Commentary on original research In the spirit of breast cancer awareness month, I thought I’d make my readers more aware...

This week marks another question from Peter Borak of San Francisco, CA: Why are some cancers fatal and other cancers easy to treat? This...

A really good read on the attitude of Steve Jobs, whom I consider one of the visionaries of our time: NY Times Nostalgia is all good...

1 October 2011 Ed: I realize that this is a partial re-post, but in the time since I originally posted this article my readership has...

This week’s article was inspired by Calvin Sloan of Santa Monica, CA: What should I not eat, what is the most carcinogenic? [in the...

Yesterday I attended the 23rd Usha Mahajani symposium on cancer research at the Salk Institute. I wish I could spend more time this week...

11 September 2011 It’s the 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, and when the World Trade Center towers went down, a...

3 September 2011 This week’s question is from Andrew Danly of Point Loma, CA. Hey Ryon: What is it you do in the lab on the front lines...

27 August 2011 Cynthia Davis from Paradise, CA writes: Since my daughters and I are tall, could you work on this, please?...

20 August 2011 Caitlin Bigelow of San Diego, CA writes: My mom and I have had a few heated discussions on the health effects of diet...

13 August 2011 This week’s question comes from Mitchell Vamos in La Jolla, CA: I haven’t heard much lately about the cancer-sniffing...

This week is part II of an article inspired by Anne Kenworthy: What does it mean to have a “normal” cancer marker? Does this mean we all...

30 July 2011 Anne Kenworthy writes: I was just turned onto this site by a friend. I am currently battling cancer. In April, My CEA...

23 July 2011 The inspiration for this week’s article is not from one person, but from a culmination of many people asking me “dumb”...