RIOT Blogs
From the developing therapeutics to understanding various types of cancer, our blogs provide insights into current research and patient care.
MYTHs and FACTs about cancers
By: Marine Lingrand
The most common misconceptions surrounding cancer mainly concern lifestyles such as tobacco, alcohol, or the sun, which are known to increase the risk of cancer. In this article, let's discuss interesting facts about cancers while demystifying some preconceived ideas about them.
Lifestyle Choices and Cancer Prevention
By: Dhwani Patel, Ching Yung Yuan, Mackenzie Smith
To lower our risk for cancer, it is important to understand that cancer is a multifaceted disease with many underlying causes. While genetics does play a role in cancer, only about 5-10% of cancers are caused by inheriting a genetic mutation (1). Thus, it is important to acknowledge the combined role of other factors including lifestyle choices such as diet, exercise, substance abuse, and chronic stress in increasing our risk for cancer.
Changing the way we talk about lung cancer
A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming, confusing and scary. Cancer patients face constant physical, psychological, and emotional challenges from the time leading up to diagnosis, throughout treatment and during remission. However instead of compassion and support, lung cancer patients are more likely to be greeted with, “Well, did you smoke?”
IMAGES ARE MORE THAN JUST PICTURES, THEY’RE DATA!
By: Tricia Chinnery, BSc
Medical imaging, such as CT, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), are commonly used to diagnose and treat disease. With advancements in medical image analysis, it is now possible to extract numbers from standard medical images. This numerical data could not only help provide information that is not visible to physicians’ eyes but help predict outcomes for patients as well.