No Such Thing as “Game Over”
Shaira Bhanji is a rising sophomore at Harvard. She enjoys writing.
One of the first statistics that most people hear about lung cancer is that it is the deadliest type of cancer with an especially discouraging prognosis: on average, only 15% of patients live to tell the tale five years later. (1,2).
During my time spent conducting research and seeing patients, I’ve not only learned that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, but I’ve also seen why; the reason comprises of a number of factors, one of which is likely metastasis to the brain, liver and bones.
Our research project, entitled Comparison of Pre-Metastatic Niche Density in Node Negative and Node Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, was, in the most general terms, an effort to find a way to predict metastases before they occur.
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