Category: Medicine
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Cancer and the Gut: How Bacteria Could Improve Responses to Immunotherapy
Rachel Lim ‘29 In 1863, German physician Rudolf Virchow, “the father of modern pathology,” observed the increased presence of white blood cells in abnormal tissue growth and was the first to propose the relationship between immune function and cancer. From the 1890s to the 1930s, doctors observed that some bacterial infections caused tumors to shrink.…
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Stem Cells: An Overview
Rachel Lim ‘29 In October 1958, an accident at a nuclear research institute near Belgrade exposed five physicists to dangerously high levels of radiation. A month later, the physicists were flown to Paris to be treated by immunologist Dr. Georges Mathé, who turned to a strategy never used before in humans: replacing damaged tissues with…
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The New FDA-Approved Lung Cancer Drug
Vigneshwari Sivakumar ’29 Lung cancer is the nation’s deadliest cancer, affecting people of all backgrounds, with the most cases of 226,650 and deaths of 124,730 this year, according to the American Cancer Society (2025). Most cancers, when detected early, can be cured and treated; however, some studies show that even with earlier diagnosis, there is…