A daily pill to tackle the deadliest lung tumours, ‘smart bomb’ drugs that stop blood cancer in its tracks and a jab so potent it could significantly slash the global death toll from skin cancer.
These were just some of the breakthroughs reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago last week.
Thousands of the world’s top cancer clinicians gathered to hear how science is gaining ground in the battle against a disease
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Will Ungerer isn’t a typical fourth-grader.
The 10-year-old from Midlothian, Va., plays tag with his friends and swims in the ocean. “I think his peers would describe him as someone who is kind, sweet and funny, and supersmart,” says his mother, Sheila Ungerer. He won a countywide citizenship award and was named classroom student of the year.
But “he’s not a really fast runner,” his peers might say. “He doesn’t really run.” Will was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a
