The Fight Against Cancer: Missiles in Nuclear Medicine

The Fight against Cancer

The Fight Against Cervical Cancer

Globally, cervical cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer affectingwomen—killingmore than 270,000 people every year. Themajority of these deaths (85%, according to theWHO) occur in developing countries. A global health priority, therefore, is to provide low-cost, highly effective cervical cancer prevention, detection, and control options to all women who need them. The human papilloma...

The Eternal Fight against Cancer

Humans have had cancer throughout documented history; hence it is no surprise that people have written about this deadly disease through ancient history. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, the oldest description of cancer, was discovered around 3000-2500 BC in Egypt describing 8 breast tumors that were eradicated by cauterization with a fire drill. As expected back then, the statement of the Egyptian wri...

Artificial Life in the Fight Against Cancer

Blood vessel growth is a fascinating example of an adaptive, morphologically plastic network formation process driven by complex interactions between individual cells in the vessel and between the cells and their dynamic extracellular environment. Under normal conditions this can generate a well-adapted hierarchical branching structure. However in tumours, blood vessels become maladapted, leaky...

Case reports and the fight against cancer

Some of the earliest case reports describing individual patients afflicted with cancer can be traced all the way back to the papyrus records of Ancient Egyptian medicine of approximately 1600 B.C.. Throughout the centuries physicians have continued the practice of writing case reports. Case reporting has provided significant advances in the knowledge of cancer on several fronts. It is without q...