In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re highlighting the work our scientists are doing toward the next generation of breast cancer therapies. Providing more oxygen to a tumor might seem like exactly the wrong way to treat cancer. But Masanobu Komatsu, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Cardiovascular Metabolism Program and the NCI-designated Cancer Center at Sanford … [Read more...]
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Viruses That Kill Cancer – A Potential New Treatment from UCF
Four years ago, Candace Fox watched her grandfather die of aggressive lung cancer, and at that moment, she committed herself to finding a cure. Today the 24 year-old Ph.D. student at the UCF College of Medicine, is doing just that. She is genetically altering a parainfluenza virus that usually causes respiratory infections to selectively attack cancer cells. In the lab at … [Read more...]
“Cancer Assassins” in Our Own Backyard
“We’re going to play football and beat cancer at the same time,” she said as the game began. “There couldn’t be a better combination.” Dr. Annette Khaled, UCF College of Medicine cancer researcher As college football’s top team is crowned, you may not know that the first bowl game of this post-season generated $1.15 million for breast cancer research – including … [Read more...]
Hope for “GONE TOO SOON” to Not Exist
My sister was GONE TOO SOON. Kristin Sanborn Todd, 36 years young, in April 2018, ran out of options to stop the spread of the breast cancer that became her biggest obstacle and fight. I am confident I’m not alone. I know I represent many families missing someone today who was GONE TOO SOON because of a terminal end from breast cancer. Just like grief tags along, … [Read more...]
Savor Tooth Tiger: Miso Soup, Japanese Breakfast of Champions
Generally in our culture, January is a time when healthy recipes are plastered on every magazine as penance for going a little wild over the holidays. What if instead of flocking to fad diet influencers, we looked to the oldest living people on the planet for sage advice on nutrition? More specifically, the centenarians (those living 100 years or more) living in “Blue Zones.” … [Read more...]
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