CCSB Seminar: An Evolutionary Approach to the Big Questions in Cancer

Apr 19, 2019 (Fri) | 1:00 PM -2:00 PM
Clark Center, S360 : Stanford, CA

Abstract:
From my perspective, there are 5 major questions in the clinical management of cancer: (1) How can we stratify the risk of neoplasms? (2) How can we prevent cancer? (3) How can we detect cancer early enough to safely remove or treat it? (4) How can we cure cancers? and (5) How can we prevent therapeutic resistance from killing the patient? Because cancer biology is actually a sub-discipline of evolutionary biology, there are evolutionary approaches to each of these questions. I will present recent or ongoing research into evolutionary approaches for each of these questions, including work that spans scales from cancer genomics, and somatic cell level evolution, to comparative oncology studies across hundreds of species.
Refreshments will be provided.

Department:  Radiology

Contact: Ramzi Totah | 6507214161 | rtotah@stanford.edu

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