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Topic: cancer research

3D rendered image, enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancer cells. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

How cancer cells move

Yizeng Li - The Conversation
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Cancer prevention still out of reach

Alyssa Shepard

Sloan Kettering deal ignites uproar

Charles Ornstein, Katie Thomas - ProPublica
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The corporate imprint on cancer research

Charles Ornstein, Katie Thomas - ProPublica
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How sugar affects cancer cells

Charlie May
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First-world cancer

Chelsey Kivland - The Conversation
Lulu, a goldendoodle who works as a therapy dog, lolls on the lawn outside the Ballard-Durand funeral home in White Plains, N.Y., on Thursday, June 4, 2015. Funeral homes are increasingly using dogs to comfort mourners. Funeral directors say the dogs, usually trained therapy animals, can lighten the often awkward, tense atmosphere at a wake or funeral service. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald) (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)

dogs and cancer research

Nicole Ehrhart - The Conversation
(AP/Alastair Grant)

Jenny Kutner
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Jenny Kutner
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