In 1985 the media announced a new therapy for cancer. It was expensive, labour-intensive and toxic - but, they said, it worked. How it worked is the story Ilana Lowy tells in "Between Bench and Bedside", an account of the clinical trials of interleukin-2 at a major French cancer hospital. Her book o[...]
Modern scientific tools can identify a genetic predisposition to cancer before any disease is detectable. Some women will never develop breast or ovarian cancer, but they nevertheless must decide, as a result of genetic testing, whether to have their breasts and ovaries removed to avoid the possibil[...]