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Donations are still accepted to the Dolphins Challenge Cancer, with 100 percent of the funds going to the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Click here to donate.
Peto's paradox is the observation that, at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism. [1] For example, the incidence of cancer in humans is much higher than the incidence of cancer in whales, [2] despite a whale having about 1000 times more cells than a human. [3]
A cancer vaccine, or oncovaccine, is a vaccine that either treats existing cancer or prevents development of cancer. [1] Vaccines that treat existing cancer are known as therapeutic cancer vaccines or tumor antigen vaccines. Some of the vaccines are "autologous", being prepared from samples taken from the patient, and are specific to that patient.
The Dolphins on Saturday held their 14th annual Challenge Cancer event, bringing members of the organization and the local community together to raise money for cancer research.
A Memorial Sloan Kettering phase 1 clinical trial revealed an immune response in some pancreatic cancer patients. Study co-author Dr. Vinod Balachandran talks about the impact on future cancer care.
Sharks Don't Get Cancer (subtitle: How Shark Cartilage Could Save Your Life) is a 1992 book written by I. William Lane and Linda Comac and published by Avery Publishing. Despite its title, the book does not claim that sharks never get cancer , only that they rarely do so, a fact which has been known since the first malignancy was found in a ...
MIAMI GARDENS - Dolphins linebacker David Long pointed to a tattoo on his left arm. "I lost my Aunt Corrie to cancer in 2015," said Long, who had just biked 54 miles at the Dolphins Challenge ...
GVAX is a cancer vaccine composed of whole tumor cells genetically modified to secrete the immune stimulatory cytokine, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and then irradiated to prevent further cell division.