Posts by: Marisa Wexler MS

Marisa Wexler MS

Marisa holds an MS in Cellular and Molecular Pathology from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied novel genetic drivers of ovarian cancer. She specializes in cancer biology, immunology, and genetics. Marisa began working with BioNews in 2018, and has written about science and health for SelfHacked and the Genetics Society of America. She also writes/composes musicals and coaches the University of Pittsburgh fencing club.

January 18, 2019

Insight Into How Breast Cancers Evade Immune System Could Help in Developing Therapies, Study Says

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Classifying breast cancers based on the mechanisms they use to avoid the immune system could be useful for designing effective immunotherapies for breast cancer patients, a study shows. The study, ... Read more

January 11, 2019

Partial Breast Radiation Therapy May Effectively Prevent Cancer Relapse, Trial Shows

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Accelerated partial breast irradiation, a therapy that delivers higher doses of radiation over a shorter period of time and targets only the part of the breast where the tumor was ... Read more

December 21, 2018

Study Reveals a Weakness of Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis

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A new study analyzing the cross-talk between bone cells and cancer cells in metastatic breast cancer models may have uncovered a weakness that can be exploited to stop breast cancer ... Read more