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    Building the ship outside of the bottle: individual cancer genomics is becoming science fact.
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    • Dec 4, 2011

    Building the ship outside of the bottle: individual cancer genomics is becoming science fact.

    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...
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    • Nov 25, 2011

    How does one become a scientist?

    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...
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    Thought Experiment: How would you design a cancer drug?
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    • Nov 13, 2011

    Thought Experiment: How would you design a cancer drug?

    (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...
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    Killing Zombie Cells Slows Aging!
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    • Nov 6, 2011

    Killing Zombie Cells Slows Aging!

    6 November 2011 Original Research Commentary Article Everyone gets older, but what exactly is aging? Everyone is familiar with getting...
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    Could cancer screening be harmful?
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    • Oct 30, 2011

    Could cancer screening be harmful?

    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...
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    Fighting fire with gasoline?  Did alternate cancer therapies shorten the life of Steve Jobs?
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    • Oct 23, 2011

    Fighting fire with gasoline? Did alternate cancer therapies shorten the life of Steve Jobs?

    23 October 2011 Jobs was a savvy businessman and one of the visionaries of our time. In his famous 2005 commencement address to Stanford...
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    Can pregnancy prevent breast cancer?
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    • Oct 17, 2011

    Can pregnancy prevent breast cancer?

    16 October 2011 Commentary on original research In the spirit of breast cancer awareness month, I thought I’d make my readers more aware...
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    Why is Pancreatic Cancer hard to treat?
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    • Oct 9, 2011

    Why is Pancreatic Cancer hard to treat?

    This week marks another question from Peter Borak of San Francisco, CA: Why are some cancers fatal and other cancers easy to treat? This...
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    • Oct 7, 2011

    Dangers of Nostalgia

    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...
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    Can Aspirin Prevent Cancer?
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    • Oct 1, 2011

    Can Aspirin Prevent Cancer?

    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...
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    How bad is red meat?
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    • Sep 25, 2011

    How bad is red meat?

    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...
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    Who was Jonas Salk?  How does one contribute to medicine?
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    • Sep 17, 2011

    Who was Jonas Salk? How does one contribute to medicine?

    Yesterday I attended the 23rd Usha Mahajani symposium on cancer research at the Salk Institute. I wish I could spend more time this week...
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    Post-9/11 cancer?
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    • Sep 11, 2011

    Post-9/11 cancer?

    11 September 2011 It’s the 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, and when the World Trade Center towers went down, a...
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    What do cancer researchers do all day?
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    • Sep 2, 2011

    What do cancer researchers do all day?

    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...
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    Do taller women get more cancer?
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    • Aug 28, 2011

    Do taller women get more cancer?

    27 August 2011 Cynthia Davis from Paradise, CA writes: Since my daughters and I are tall, could you work on this, please?...
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    Does aspartame cause cancer?  Do you eat a pound of aspartame per day?
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    • Aug 19, 2011

    Does aspartame cause cancer? Do you eat a pound of aspartame per day?

    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...
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    Cancer sniffing pooch?
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    • Aug 13, 2011

    Cancer sniffing pooch?

    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...
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    Do we all have some level of cancer?
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    • Aug 5, 2011

    Do we all have some level of cancer?

    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...
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    • Jul 30, 2011

    Normal ranges of a tumor marker?

    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...
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    Not taking it for granted: Sunscreen DOES prevent Melanoma
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    • Jul 23, 2011

    Not taking it for granted: Sunscreen DOES prevent Melanoma

    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”...
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