Cancer Research

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Why I Kept My Cancer A Secret, And Why I Won't Anymore

6:51pm June 22, 2021

by Ina Jaffe

An NPR correspondent living with incurable cancer says 7% is no solution. That's one estimate of how much — or how little — breast cancer research funding goes toward metastatic disease.

Hadiyah-Nicole Green and Tenika Floyd at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta in January 2017.

'It Was Personal.' After Tragedy, Physicist Devotes Career To Cancer Research

9:07am July 10, 2020

Hadiyah-Nicole Green lost the aunt and uncle who raised her to cancer. The loss inspired her to develop a cancer treatment using lasers. "I was born to do this," she tells her cousin at StoryCorps.

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Wake Forest Baptist Gets Large Grant To Increase Cancer Research

12:33pm September 24, 2019

by Keri Brown

Wake Forest Baptist Health has received a

Black men are twice as likely as whites to die from prostate cancer, one of the deadliest cancers that affect males.

Distrust Of Health Care System May Keep Black Men Away From Prostate Cancer Research

2:23pm October 17, 2018

by Rachel D. Cohen

Black men are hit hardest by prostate cancer, but they are underrepresented in research. Researchers held focus groups in three states to understand why.

Nearly two-thirds of cell mutations that cause cancer are caused by random error, a study found.

Cancer Is Partly Caused By Bad Luck, Study Finds

6:34pm March 23, 2017

by Richard Harris

Researchers have long known behavior, environment and genetics play a role in cancer. A study in Science finds luck is also a major factor. Nearly two-thirds of cancer mutations arise randomly.

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Nancy Roach at a conference in 2016. She's long worked as a patient's advocate and recently teamed up with scientists to help improve the design of studies, as well as to improve clinical care.

Advice From Patients On A Study's Design Makes For Better Science

3:18pm February 24, 2017

by Richard Harris

Increasingly, advocates for patients are in the room when big medical studies are designed. They demand answers to big questions: "Will the results of this study actually help anybody?"

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Wake Forest Baptist Receives $20 Million For Cancer Research

11:38am June 16, 2015

by Neal Charnoff

An anonymous donor has given Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center $20 million toward cancer research.

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