Dr. Melinda Irwin, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, recently turned her attention to the issue of whether exercise after a breast cancer diagnosis affects prognosis.
Melissa Chiasson, DC ’11, is taking advantage of the Yale Junior Term Abroad system to explore the Wet Tropics of Australia in the Rainforest, Reef, and Cultural Ecology program, part of the School for International Training (SIT) Study Abroad Australia.
In adoptive immunotherapy, a potential new cancer therapy, blood is drawn from the patient and T cells from that blood are proliferated, or expanded, outside the body. The expanded T cells are then re-injected to fight the cancer.