Ovarian cancer: Quick steps to widespread disease
Ovarian cancer cells that interact with cancer-associated fibroblasts can mobilize glycogen as an energy source, leading to proliferation, invasion and metastasis. Blocking glycogen mobilization in cancer cells might reduce tumor spread.
For Muslim women, faith-based messaging leads to more mammograms
Lower screening rates for breast cancer among Muslim women, are — in part — due to faith-based ways of coping with health and illness. Aasim Padela, MD, director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine at UChicago Medicine worked to increase screenings by developing religious messages about health and delivering this information in mosques.