Ideas tagged with cancer

Soap bar skin scanner for detection of early melanoma

Many scanners look inside the body, but none examine our whole skin because the ripples and folds of flesh need to be unfolded for camera access. The current approach assumes no cooperation from the person being examined, except to lie or stand in standard positions. It struck me while showerin...

By Richard Gordon

Cancer cell nuclear expulsion: a possible mechanism of survival, and metastasis capability.

A very interesting and novel experiment was carried out by Florina Bojin et al [Wiley](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcmm.12271/abstract). Constructing on this published work, I propose a novel survival mechanism of the cancer cell, and a new metastasis mechanism. Giving that cancer...

By Olteanu Emilian