Cancer Moonshot

[ergophobe]

I don't know what if anything all the recent cancer news has to do with the 2020 injection of funding... but catching up on my futurity feed and I see three cancer stories (that's an unusual amount).

Immune cells can turn into pro-cancer traitors
https://www.futurity.org/pro-tumor-immune-cells-3248232/

Studying the behavior of these "pro-tumor" immune cells is important because they could be targets for therapies that block their harmful activity

Drug kills triple negative breast cancer cells
https://www.futurity.org/drug-kills-triple-negative-breast-cancer-cells-3248422/

A recent study offers a new approach to treating TNBC: targeting cholesterol synthesis.

Nanoparticles deliver drugs to kill cancer cells in mice
https://www.futurity.org/nanoparticles-cancer-drug-delivery-3249162/

Researchers have developed a nanomedicine that increases the penetration and accumulation of chemotherapy drugs in tumor tissues and effectively kills cancer cells in mice.