Immunotherapy - treatment that use the immune system to fight diseases like cancer - is a hot topic in the news and medical research area in recent years. Some of the most promising advances in cancer research involve immunotherapies. Let’s take a…
Summer, as wonderful as it is, can bring high heat, humidity and higher levels of physical activity, making unappealing even moderately heavy meals. As a result, it’s perhaps the only time of year that the environment deeply promotes the innate desire to…
Esophageal cancer is cancer that impacts the 10-inch-long tube that connects the mouth to the stomach. That important track is vital to survive, and used daily, but esophageal cancer is shockingly referred to as a silent killer. Most people with esophageal cancer…
“5 Questions With…” is a weekly BioBuzz series where we reach out to interesting people in the BioHealth Capital Region to share a little about themselves, their work, and maybe something completely unrelated. This week we welcome 5 Questions with Dr. Sujuan…
THE CHALLENGE
—Unmet Medical Need for Holistic Cancer Treatment
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease. Heterogeneity in cancer is not limited to differences between different patients, but also occurs within a single patient. This intrapatient or intratumoral heterogeneity can present great challenges for cancer treatment.
This…
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7 April 2021
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Asian Fund for Cancer Research
Bradley Gillenwater, Senior Director for Corporate Engagement
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Asian Fund for Cancer Research Announces Inaugural BRACE Award Venture Competition Winner
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Working with our strategic partners, the National Foundation for Cancer Research and AIM-HI Accelerator Fund (AIM-HI), AFCR have launched the inaugural Women’s Venture Competition in 2020.
The AIM-HI Women’s Venture Competition is a first-of-its-kind program that combines extensive coaching, networking and financial…
A fast vaccination will push the world entering the stage of herd immunity, namely enough population will have gained immune protection against the COVID-19 virus and the infection will no longer be able to spread easily.
Unlike healthy people, cancer patients need to…