Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world. However, people fail to understand that it isn’t caused by bad luck or fate, but rather the lifestyle choices we settle for. You might be a weightlifter, keeping fit daily, but you stand a similar chance of contracting cancer to a guy who…
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ASPIRE Pick of the Week: Is Genetic Medicine Making the World Less Fair?
Stories like the 2018 bombshell out of China, of a scientist manipulating embryonic DNA to produce the world’s first genetically engineered human babies, make people uneasy, often in ways they find hard to define. Our fear of genetics is visceral and surfaces in a range of dystopian visions, from…
Men’s Health: Hormonal Therapy for Cancer
Hormonal therapy adds, blocks or removes hormones to slow or stop the growth of cancer cells that need hormones to grow. Hormonal therapy is also called hormone withdrawal therapy, hormone manipulation or endocrine therapy. Hormones are chemicals that travel in the blood and control how some cell…