Jeffrey Peterson, associate professor of cancer biology with the Breast Cancer Translational Research Disease Group at Fox Chase Cancer Center, received a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to evaluate and exploit the mechanisms of inducing programmed cell death using polyunsaturated fatty acids in triple-negative breast cancer.
By the end of 2022, Toni Monteiro had no fight left in her. She had been battling a rare blood cancer for three years. Her husband had just died. She was at risk of being evicted from her Washington, DC, apartment. Also, her heart was failing. “You’re really under stress,” Monteiro recalls her physician saying. ...
