All-female team explores a promising compound against this ‘essentially incurable’ disease Society has no shortage of metaphors for cancer. Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee famously titled his bestselling book after a 19th-century surgeon’s note referring to cancer as “the emperor of all maladies, the king of terrors.” Closer to home, marine scientist Dr. Gisela P. Concepcion […]
Over the past 15 years, cutting-edge research has made it possible to better understand cancer. It is a genetic disease that is borne out of genomic disruptions that drive gene expression changes or activate or silence genes, thereby altering gene networks and pathways. Global efforts to study multiple cancer types are opening up opportunities for […]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are about 4,700 new childhood cancer cases in the Philippines annually. Forty percent of these cases are leukemia—a treatable condition, especially during early diagnosis and with consistent chemotherapy. Unfortunately, 1,700 children still die from leukemia each year in our country. Compounding this are unseen impacts of COVID-19 […]
It could hold the key to unlocking cancer’s secrets, and the Philippines could soon help in shaping that key. Ten years ago, Francis Collins and Anna Barker, at that time from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Cancer Institute, respectively, wrote an article for Scientific American celebrating the launch of a milestone […]