September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month .@CHBlades, Sr. VP Chief #ESG and Comms Officer @Aflac discuss National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and how My Special Aflac Duck® is helping children with cancer cope during further isolation from COVID-19. https://bit.ly/3i0yAWG @ATLPedsHemOnc via @wpri12 Published at Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:30:50 +0000

Therapist Tips to Talk to a Friend with Breast Cancer There are times in life when even the most empathetic person — the one who always seems to know the right thing to say — finds themselves at a loss for words. Learning a friend has breast cancer can be one of them. Dr. Shanthi […]

A teacher with terminal cancer wanted to repaint his house for his wife. A dozen people came to help The 45-year-old teacher from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, started chemotherapy treatments when he was diagnosed last year, but in July doctors told him he had only months left to live. “I found out I was not […]

Blocking nuclear pore complex formation can help selectively kill cancer cells Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 28 2020 Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have shown that blocking the construction of nuclear pores complexes–large channels that control the flow of materials in and out of the cell nucleus–shrank aggressive tumors in mice while […]

New drug targeting DNA repair shows promise in range of advanced cancers A new precision drug which stops cancer from repairing its DNA has shown promise in an early-stage clinical trial – highlighting the potential of a new class of drugs known as ATR inhibitors. The drug candidate, tested in humans for the first time, […]