ANDRZEJ KRAUZE
Sometimes it seems as though cancer research itself is metastasizing. Every day, we learn about new approaches to understand, prevent, and vanquish the many-headed monster that is cancer. But this is a beneficial, not a malignant, growth of knowledge and insight. The complexity in how we conceive of and learn about cancer mirrors the intricate—and on some levels still mysterious—workings of the disease. The efforts to beat cancer, which is actually a constellation of different diseases rather than a single malady, must spread and adapt to match the vagility of the foe.
In recent years, a fruitful strategy in the race to outpace cancer is to exploit the body’s own compromised defenses to awaken and mount an attack against rapidly dividing cells. Previously, and per ...
