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The animal that doesn’t get cancer

This article first appeared on bbc.com Cancer is rife in the animal kingdom. For many, the mortality rate is similar to that suffered by humans. The dogs and cats we share our homes with can get various forms of cancer. Among other things, second-hand cigarette smoke increases the risk. But wild animals get cancer too. […]

With Fresh Perspectives, Research Team Studies Needs of Older Patients

This article appeared first in Dialouge Magazine. Wilmot Cancer Institute’s “cancer and aging” scientific team could be a model for marrying distinctly different perspectives into one big project. The team’s secret weapon isn’t even a scientist; she’s Beverly Canin, a sharp, energetic 82-year-old breast cancer survivor from the Hudson Valley region of New York. Canin […]

Vera Gorbunova delivers eighth Paul F. Glenn Lecture

Expert on long-lived rodents provides insights into research on longevity and cancer resistance. Vivian Siegel | Department of Biology February 16, 2017 Mice and rats rarely live more than five years. Yet some rodents, remarkably, can live up to 30. These notably long-lived rodents were the subject of Vera Gorbunova’s “Longevity and anticancer mechanisms in […]