{"id":46636,"date":"2017-09-14T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46636"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:12","slug":"ghavre-terry-fox-inspires-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/ghavre-terry-fox-inspires-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"GHAVRE: Terry Fox inspires scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock chemistry researcher Mukund Ghavre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/09\/13\/terry-fox-inspires-scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote a piece recently published in the St. Catharines Standard<\/a> about the impact Canadian hero Terry Fox has had on cancer research being done at the University.<\/p>\n<p>Ghavre writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>While the earliest reports of cancer chemotherapy date back to the second half of the 19th century, serious research around chemo began in earnest during the Second World War.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since that conflict which ran from 1939 to 1945, thousands of anti-cancer agents have been prepared and tested against various strains of the disease. Some of these are natural products, others are synthetic (man-made) compounds developed from natural products.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Simply put, cancer is the uncontrolled growth of animal cells.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cancer is not one disease. The word is a loose term used to describe a group of more than 200 diseases. That means that every type of cancer is different, therefore their causes can be different and, thus, their treatments will be different.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Likewise, different types of cancers will interact differently with the anti-cancer drugs. This creates a hurdle in finding one effective drug against cancer. Additionally, drug resistance shown by cancer stem cells, or the asymptotic and metastatic nature of malignant cancer, pose difficulties in cancer treatment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/09\/13\/terry-fox-inspires-scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock chemistry researcher Mukund Ghavre wrote a piece recently published in the St. Catharines Standard about the impact Canadian hero Terry Fox has had on the world of science and cancer research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,41],"tags":[3367,5781,3325,4301,5739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95271,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46636\/revisions\/95271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}