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breast cancer

Dogs can smell silent, deadly cancers before a blood test can

Can doctors learn to detect the volatile compounds that dogs pick up?

X-rays of different skeletons with cancerous growth visible.

Raquel Marconato via Flickr

We can detect and treat it better than ever, but preventing cancer is still far out of reach

The search for clues has led researchers to study animals who don't develop cancer at all

BRCA genes are more complicated than most people think

Genes long considered risk factors are about much more than cancer: they help DNA repair

Maryam Mirzakhani’s mathematical legacy lives on

The first woman to win a Fields Medal was only 40 when she died, but she revolutionized mathematics