Yosef Jordan

Women support breast cancer awareness using the pink ribbon symbol. Illustration: depositphotos.com

To put the cancer to sleep

Weizmann Institute of Science scientists reveal how breast cancer cells enter dormancy, how it is maintained over years – and why they suddenly awaken and form metastases
Lungs of an untreated mouse with Ewing's sarcoma (left) containing many cancer cells (highlighted) that have spread from the bones, compared to almost completely clean lungs of a mouse treated with a drug that reduces glucocorticoid production (right)

The causes of the spread of bone cancer were revealed in Ewing's name

breast cancer

Two are better than one

A group of genes includes about a dozen genes controlled by a protein called p53, the cancer suppressor. Illustration: Weizmann Institute

Eight hours of resistance