Scientists around the world are taking a deeper look at the importance of environmental exposures in the development of cancer.
This brief video, developed by the patient advocate members of Cancer Grand Challenges’ Team PROMINENT, explores how environmental toxins might target existing mutations and spark tumor growth.
Team PROMINENT includes UCSF scientists Allan Balmain, PhD, Luke Gilbert, PhD, Kim Rhoads, MD; and patient advocates Baba Gerald Green (deceased), Floyd Rocker, and Lluvia Del Rio.
Cancer Grand Challenges, a partnership between the NCI and Cancer Research UK, funds international teams of scientists and patient advocates whose novel ideas have the greatest potential to advance...