Nobody puts "cancer diagnosis" on their pregnancy bingo card. Swollen ankles? Sure. Weird cravings at 2 AM? Expected. But a cervical cancer diagnosis at 10 weeks pregnant? That's the kind of plot twist nobody signed up for - and yet it happens to roughly 1.6 to 11.1 out of every 100,000 pregnant...
And what comes out might just change how we think about testing for treatable mutations.
1969: The first colonoscopy is performed, and humanity collectively agrees this is nobody's favorite Tuesday activity.
That's not the sound of a bug zapper on your porch. It's the sound of electric fields scrambling cancer cells in someone's pancreas - and the FDA just gave it a thumbs up.
That's the sound of a cell cycle clock - the molecular metronome that tells your cells when to divide. For most cells, it's a well-regulated symphony. But in the breast tissue of women under 40 with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) cancer, that clock has apparently decided to go rogue, and it...
Somewhere in a conference room in 2018, the World Health Organization gathered some very serious people around a very serious table and declared that by 2030, at least 60% of children diagnosed with cancer worldwide should survive five years. It was ambitious. It was bold. It was - according to the...