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I’m not going to be cured’. How breast cancer awareness and support sidelines people with metastatic disease
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I’m not going to be cured’. How breast cancer awareness and support sidelines people with metastatic disease

by Sophie Lewis, Andrea Smith and Katherine Kenny, The Conversation Credit: ShutterstockThere have been incredible advances in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in recent years. And stories about celebrities who have “beaten” breast cancer continue to be a source of inspiration for many people. However, this emphasis on fighting, beating and surviving cancer shuts out...

Discovery of a molecular switch in pancreatic cancer cells that triggers metastatic disease
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Discovery of a molecular switch in pancreatic cancer cells that triggers metastatic disease

by Columbia University Irving Medical Center Axial CT image with i.v. contrast. Macrocystic adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Credit: public domain More than 62,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer by the end of this year, with the vast majority having a deadly and aggressive subtype known as pancreatic ductal...