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Cancer and Obesity
Disclaimer: I support the body positive community, as in I don’t think people should be made to feel bad about how they look or be treated poorly based on their size or appearance (why can’t we all be nice to…
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Diets and Medicine Working Together
If you have been following me for any amount of time, you might know my opinion on the use of diet/supplements to treat cancer. If you don’t know, I’ll save you some time – I think it’s a waste of…
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Naked Mole Rats: Models for Cancer and Aging
Do naked mole rats hold the answers to cancer prevention and aging? Their genes don’t create faulty cells the way ours do. Originally published on massivesci.com Naked mole rats are not winning an animal beauty contest any time soon. Eduard…
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Is Cancer Prevention a Futile Pursuit?
We can detect and treat it better than ever, but preventing cancer is still far out of reach. The search for clues has led researchers to study animals who don’t develop cancer at all. Originally published on massivesci.com Doctors and…
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Cancer: Peto’s Paradox
I’m going to create a new series all about what I’m studying: cancer. I wrote an introductory post about cancer awhile back (I think it may have been my very first post) that was a broad explanation about cancer. With…
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Cancer
Let’s start this blog by talking about a complex topic: cancer. I’ve been studying cancer for a couple of years now (I have a degree in cancer biology, that makes me an expert, right?), so I know quite a bit…
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