The Merriam-Webster dictionary provides three essential meanings for the word “density”: having parts that are close together; being difficult to see through; […]
Posts Tagged ‘Survivor’
Ultrasound Embraces the Challenge
Earlier this week, Rebekah Moan, who is a contributing writer for AuntMinnie.com, published three articles that are relevant for breast cancer […]
War: A Harmful Metaphor?
It has become commonplace to hear expressions such as “fighting the war on cancer” or even “she’s a warrior intent […]
Giving Back
Two women whose breast cancer was missed during routine annual mammograms combined forces four years ago to launch the educational […]
Looking for a Polar Bear in a Snowstorm
Fifteen years ago, Nancy Cappello’s annual screening mammogram was found to be normal, just as had been reported for the […]
NCI Launches Plans for 2020
A decade ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were successful in […]
Taking the Initiative
Earlier this year the Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) celebrated its fifth anniversary. The aim of […]
Pioneers in Immunotherapy
The intramural research programme within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland lives by its byline: “Our research […]
A Computer Algorithm Failure
On Wednesday 2 May 2018 the Health Secretary for the UK government, Mr Jeremy Hunt (seen right, © The Independent), stood up […]
The Colour’s Coming Back
This coming Sunday, 4 February, is World Cancer Day 2018, an initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) that […]