Funding Cancer Research: The Danger of Brightly Colored Ribbons
Category: SCIENCE
Pink ribbons are for breast cancer, dark blue ribbons are for colon cancer, and so on. But cancer is more a disease of genes than one of specific tissues, so the specialization of our research and educational efforts based solely on a given cancer's tissue of origin could have detrimental aspects.
By Joaquin M. Espinosa, Contributor
Professor of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Me..., 2014-01-18