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Traditional Chinese Medicine: Building a Bridge to Modern Oncology
China’s oncologists want to see robust evidence before putting their faith in traditional remedies. Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine struggle with concepts of experimental medicine and animal models. But interest is growing in finding ways to bridge that gap in…
How a Chicken Egg Model Could Transform Pediatric Cancer Treatment in Canada
A new, innovative pipeline fusing genomics, proteomics and modelling in animals and chicken eggs is pinpointing new treatments for children with rare and relapsed cancers in Canada. Researchers in Canada have used fertilized chicken eggs to grow tumors from children…
Microbiota-Derived Bile Acids as Androgen Receptor Antagonists Enhance Anti-Tumour Immunity
The gut microbiota can transform cholesterol-derived bile acids into metabolites capable of blocking androgen receptors and strengthening anti-cancer immunity. The study, published in Cell, April 15, demonstrates how one of the microbiota-derived secondary bile acids is capable of suppressing tumour…
Alberto Costa: The Father of Seven Children
“I mean, while I was reading the book you gave me about Umberto Veronesi,” I said, “there’s this expression: As you set out for Ithaca, hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. You wrote…
CancerWorld issue #103 (May, 2025)
What does it take to change the odds in cancer care? Innovation? Yes. But also: persistence. Collaboration. The refusal to accept that some lives matter less because of where they’re born. In this issue of CancerWorld, we focus not just…
Adrian Gottschalk: Making a Difference for His Fellow Human Beings
I grew up around a lot of physicians,” begins Adrian Gottschalk, President and CEO of Foghorn Therapeutics, a biotech company redefining how we understand and treat complex diseases by targeting the chromatin regulatory system. “My late father was a professor…
CancerWorld #102 (April 2025)
The People Behind the Progress in Oncology is science. But it is also stories. It is policy. It is power. It is knowledge. It is culture. It is trust. And above all, it’s personal. This is the lens through which…