Archive for cancer treatment

Turning cancer into a treatable disease: cancer research at 200 years

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

In the New England Journal of Medicine recently an article summarized the progress made after 200 years of research into the origins and treatment of cancer. The real leap in progress has occurred since the 1960′s, when the structure of DNA was deduced. Starting in the 1970′s it became possible to manipulate DNA sequences to ... read more »

Number of cancer survivors growing along with their needs

Saturday, June 16th, 2012

During the period from 2012 to 2022, the number of cancer survivors will grow from about 14 million to 18 million. This means that today, almost 5 percent of the American population are survivors of this disease after their diagnosis. Among men, the leading cancer of survivors is prostate (43 percent of the total) while ... read more »