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 | As we go through Women's History Month, you'll hear about famous women - and Gertrude Elion is certainly one. Like Marie Curie, she was awarded a Nobel Prize for her research that led to breakthrough in treatment. | |
Gertrude Elion - Pioneer of Cancer Drug Development
New York City welcomed Gertrude Elion into the world in 1918 on a freezing January night. She was the child of European immigrants who encouraged her to get a good education. During the Depression, she overcame financial difficulties, the untimely death of her fiance, and barriers to women in medical research. Despite this, she developed targeted drug therapies for AIDS and cancer. Read more here.
| Words of the Week: Targeted Biological Therapy
Gertrude Elion pioneered in the study of biochemical differences between healthy cells and rouge cells. Elion and her mentor George H. Hitchings were the first to leverage those important differences and create designer drugs that targeted diseased cells, while leaving healthy cells alone. Targeted Biological Therapy for breast cancer relies on their work.
| Fibrosolve, a Dietary Supplement for Breast Fibroadenomas
If you have a fibroadenoma (a type of benign breast lump), your ears may have perked up when you heard about Fibrosolve, a natural dietary supplement advertised as the "first and only supplement available to prevent and treat the existence of fibroadenomas."
Though its promises sound appealing, should you try Fibrosolve?
| 10 Radiation Treatment Myths
Will radiation treatments make you glow in the dark? Actually, that sounds like fun - but it would keep you awake at night. Might radiation turn you into a superhero like Spiderman? Check out these and other myths and get expert answers from a radiation oncologist.
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