Living with a rare disease. And cancer. Welcome to 2017.
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Did the treatment work?
If you’re a tech geek, you probably read the webcomic xkcd. If you’re not, you may not have heard of it. The cartoonist, Randall Munroe, made his doodles public in 2005. His tagline for the xkcd: “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” However, many of his cartoons might be better thought of as …
Metformin inhibits development of drug-resistant breast cancer
Breast, colon, lung and hematological cancers “have high rates” of acquired resistance to chemotherapy drugs, including aromatase inhibitors for breast cancer. This phenomena, multiple drug resistance (MDR), is a major impediment to long-term cancer treatment. That makes this research, published online December 6, 2017, groundbreaking. [We] present the important in vitro discovery that the development of …
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Were these women irrational when they rejected adjuvant breast cancer treatment?
Perhaps the most egregious part of this research is that it treats “breast cancer” as a singular disease rather than the extremely heterogenous entity that it is.