A cancer and medicine blog to help on the journey of life. Medicine and Medical Oncology are rapidly changing fields and is hard for most people to keep up. A diagnosis of any illness, in particular cancer is devastating news for anyone, and the hope is that we can share knowledge and support each other.
The 2019 in Medicine has been awarded to William Kaelin Jr, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.” HIF1-alpha is at the center of this process, plays a key role in many cancers.