July 5, 2023
President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971. At the time, the disease was the second leading cause of death in the US.
More than 50 years later, cancer is still the country’s second most lethal disease, claiming over 600,000 lives every year. Despite advances in treatment—chemotherapy, for instance, is less torturous than it was decades ago—there is still no cure.
Recent BBS grad Liang Chang hopes to change that.
View the full article at https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/turning-cancer-itself.