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Cancer Constellation Stars

Albumasar writes of this sign in Flowers of Abu Ma’shar. A 1488 Latin translation depicts cancer as a big crayfish, which also is the constellation’s name in most Germanic languages. Jakob Bartsch and Stanislaus Lubienitzki, in the 17th century, described it as a lobster. To the unaided eye it looks like a compact, fuzzy patch of light — like a tiny...

Cancer Moonshot

Chemotherapy and hormone-blocking drugs can suppress the development of cancer cells all through the body. Obtaining the BRCA2 gene mutation in all probability does not make the current cancer result in a worse outcome. Having said that, obtaining either BRCA gene mutation increases the risk of building a second breast cancer. Thus, screening may well miss cancers, possibly such as those...