9 Best Articles on Cancer
The most useful articles on cancer from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Cancer Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on cancer by Refind users.
- These Engineered Cells Are Super Soldiers That Hunt Down Cancers
- Robust artificial intelligence tools to predict future cancer
- A Universal Cancer Treatment?
- How cancer cells can become immortal – new research finds a mutated gene that helps melanoma defeat…
- Why are people still dying of cancer? — Aeon Essays
Trending
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Opinion: Stopping the Cancer Cells that Thrive on Chemotherapy
Research into how pancreatic tumors adapt to stress could lead to a new treatment approach.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on cancer—all under 10 minutes.
These Engineered Cells Are Super Soldiers That Hunt Down Cancers
A new therapy combines two big advances, CRISPR and CAR-T, to create personalized immune cells that seek and destroy specific cancers.
A Universal Cancer Treatment?
A medicine that disrupts the DNA replication of cancer cells may be within reach.
How cancer cells can become immortal – new research finds a mutated gene that helps melanoma defeat…
One enzyme plays a key role in how tumor cells replicate and divide indefinitely. Identifying the genes that give these cells their immortality could provide new drug targets to treat cancer.
Cancer treatments boosted by immune cell hacking
Precision-controlled CAR-T-cell immunotherapies could be used to tackle a range of tumour types.
Robust artificial intelligence tools to predict future cancer
MIT researchers have improved their machine learning system, Mirai, developed to predict cancer risk from mammogram images, and validated their effectiveness with studies across several hospitals.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on cancer.
Phenotypic plasticity and genetic control in colorectal cancer evolution
Intratumour genetic ancestry only infrequently affects gene expression traits and subclonal evolution in colorectal cancer, with most genetic intratumour variation having no detected phenotypic…
Why are people still dying of cancer? — Aeon Essays
A critical mass of medical knowledge could soon end the death threat of cancer, but politics stands in the way
A Clever New Strategy for Treating Cancer, Thanks to Darwin
Most advanced-stage cancers mutate, resisting drugs meant to kill them. Now doctors are harnessing the principles of evolution to thwart that lethal adaptation.
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Cancer, including:
Nautilus Magazine
Experience science, don't just read about it. Deep, undiluted, narrative storytelling brings science into the most important conversations we are having today.
Singularity Hub
Chronicling technological progress in AI, robotics, health, & exponential tech. By @singularityu.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a world leader in research and education. Related accounts: @MITevents @MITstudents @MIT_alumni
PBS
New year, same us.
nature
Research, News, and Commentary from Nature, the international journal of science. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: http://go.nature.com/naturebriefing
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