by Susan Keown | Nov 2, 2024 | ScienceWire
A story by Lisa Stiffler in GeekWire explains how Everett company TerraPower Isotopes has managed to produce a rare cancer-drug ingredient, actinium-225, from nuclear waste. Though it has access to only the equivalent of 17 pennies’ in weight of source material from...
by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Fred Hutch News Service, Bonnie Rochman marks the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the role of EGFR gene mutations in lung cancer treatment with the story of a woman who has survived metastatic lung cancer for two decades thanks to the therapies the discovery...
by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
Rachel Tompa covers new research for the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center on the inordinate cancer risk suffered by people with particular environmental exposures due to their professions (such as firefighters and farmers) or bad luck...
by Susan Keown | Sep 2, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Diane Mapes (@double_whammied) explains why cancer disrupts sleep and what cancer patients can do to regain good sleep if they find themselves tossing and turning all night. She talks to an expert about the health benefits of...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Sabin Russell (@sabinwiki) takes a deep look at peripheral neuropathy, nerve damage in hands and feet that can result in numbness, tingling and stabbing pain. Often a result of treatment with particular cancer chemotherapies,...
