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Evolution and Cancer Treatment

The dynamic cancer ecosystem, with its rich temporal and spatial diversity in environmental conditions and heritable cell phenotypes, is remarkably robust to therapeutic perturbations. Even when response to therapy is clinically complete, adaptive tumo...

Nrf2 and Skin Cancer

Pharmacologic activation of the transcription factor NRF2 has been suggested to offer a strategy for cancer prevention. In this study, we present evidence from murine tumorigenesis experiments suggesting there may be limitations to this possibility, ba...

Tumor Microenvironment Confers De Novo Therapy Resistance

Resistance to currently available targeted therapies significantly hampers the survival of patients with prostate cancer with bone metastasis. Here we demonstrate an important resistance mechanism initiated from tumor-induced bone. Studies using an ost...

Beyond ‘Get Well Soon’ – Create an Empathy Card

What's the right thing to say to a friend with a chronic illness? Help us create an empathy card that says all the right things.

MUC16 and Cancer Therapeutics

CA125, the most widely used ovarian cancer biomarker, was first identified approximately 35 years ago in an antibody screen against ovarian cancer antigen. Two decades later, it was cloned and characterized to be a transmembrane mucin, MUC16. Since the...