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Cancer Ecology by Ken Pienta

Understanding cancer through the lens of ecology and evolution

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A Tumor Grows Far Slower Than Its Cells Can

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A cane toad front sweeps across Australia at fifty kilometers a year. A prairie-dog town creeps outward at thirty meters. A tumor, measured honestly, grows at a fraction of one percent a day, order...

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A cancer’s ability to keep changing may be a vulnerability we can exploit for treatment

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When a cancer becomes resistant, we ask what changed. Which mutation appeared, which pathway became active, which cells survived? A second question is how much capacity the population still ha...

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Immunotherapy does not strengthen the immune system. It stops the tumor from switching it off.

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In 1982 a woman in Scotland had a melanoma removed from her skin. It was 2.6 millimeters thick. The wider excision found no residual tumor. She was entered in the Scottish Melanoma Group registry, followed...

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An exhausted T cell may have a point of no return

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When a patient’s cancer does not respond to a PD-1 inhibitor, the usual question is what the tumor is doing to resist. A second question gets less attention. What i...

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Most of Your Cells Cannot Get Cancer


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Here is a fact that sounds wrong but is not. Most of the cells in your body cannot become cancer. Not “rarely do.” Cannot. A mature neuron, a red blood cell, a muscle fiber contracting in your hea...

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