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What do they have to do with cancer? – In “Through the Looking Glass,” written in 1871, Lewis Carroll gives his heroine Alice a ridiculous Victorian-style poem to memorize call “Jabberwocky.” One of the lines in it is: “And the mome raths outgrabe.” Did he mean MOLE RATS? It turns out these fascinating creatures, who live their entire lives underground, have incredible longevity AND do not get cancer. Is hiding underground (the way some people think that aliens do) the solution to our problems?
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In Latinos, anyway – Hispanics who move to the US have higher rates of cancer than their relatives who stay home. This may be due to under reporting in their home countries, but it’s something that is concerning researchers who are searching desperately for some of the causes of this dreaded disease.

Miami researcher Paulo S. Pinheiro thinks it’s important that we not lump all Spanish-speaker together. He says, “Hispanics are not all the same with regard to their cancer experience. Targeted interventions for cancer prevention and control should take into account the specificity of each Hispanic subgroup: Cubans, Puerto Ricans or Mexicans.”
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Can a classroom give you cancer? If it contains radiation left over from 100-year-old scientific experiments, it can.

Ernest Rutherford was the first scientist to split the atom?and he may have been indirectly responsible for killing 4 people at a university in the UK.

The building was never tested for radiation and in 1972 it was transferred to the psychology department. In the Wednesday, September 24 edition of the Independent, Jonathan Brown reports that after the 4th person who used the room died of cancer recently, his family claimed this was “more than a coincidence.”

Marie Curie, who discovered radium, died from leukemia in 1934 and her notebooks are STILL too dangerous to be touched. Rutherford died in 1937, at age 66.
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It helps to eat the right foods! – Scientists are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. The treatment will involve transfusing specific white blood cells, called granulocytes, into patients with advanced forms of cancer. A similar treatment using white blood cells from cancer-resistant mice has previously been highly successful, curing 100% of lab mice with advanced malignancies. The donors will be healthy young people who have been identified as having immune systems that produce white blood cells with high levels of cancer-fighting activity.
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