Originally published in Forward, Fall/Winter 2017By Andrew BeckerIt’s a true story that reads like a Hollywood script: two scientists from different countries meet at a conference and decide to collaborate on a shared interest. Along with a third scien...
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One Family's Journey from Pakistan to Philadelphia In Mahmood Saeed’s experience, necessity truly does breed invention. He’s been in the U.S. for nearly three years and while he has come to love his new city of Philadelphia, he will al...
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Updated: February 25, 2020 Skin cancer is by far the most common cancer in the U.S. The good news is that the two most common types of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, are very easily treatable if diagnosed early and managed...
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Men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer are sometimes faced with a difficult patient-based decision: Do they treat their cancer immediately, or consider the strategy of postponing treatment, a technique called “active surveillance with curative intent?”...
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Sajitha Anthony, PhD Former graduate student in Dr. Jeffrey Peterson’s Lab [email protected] Biography One might say that my educational journey beings in the North and ends in the South. I grew up in Toronto, the capitol of Ontar...
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Updated: April 8, 2022 Lung cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer in individuals, and is far and away the most lethal form of cancer. It accounts for about 13% of new cancer cases each year, and about a quarter of all cancer-related deaths. But desp...
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