It took him 50 years – but cancer researcher Dr. Rakesh K. Jain, Harvard University, finally is getting oncologists to think differently about treating cancer.

A tired joke speaks of an economist who dropped a ten-dollar bill in a dark alley – and ran out to the streetlight to look for it. Why? Because – that is where the light is.

Dr. Jain knew researchers studied cancer tumors themselves. But what about, he said, the ‘soil’ or context in which they grow? That may hold the key. That IS where the light is, he claimed.

“Cancer cells........

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