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This college freshman is a cancer detective: A Q&A with Brittany Wenger

on Dec 12, 2013

When Brittany Wenger was a sophomore in high school, her cousin was diagnosed with breast cancer. She saw firsthand how the disease strikes a woman and her family, and she wanted to help. While some of us might offer to bake a casserole or lend a listening ear, Brittany went the extra mile: She created […]

Rethinking cancer treatment: 9 great talks, plus 1 book

By Kate Torgovnick May

on Jul 16, 2012

Mina Bissell was not always the most popular person in the field of cancer research. After studying chemistry in college and getting her Ph.D. in bacteriology, the leading theory on how cancer develops — that a single cancer gene in just one of the body’s trillion cells is enough to cause the disease — simply […]