What Should Cancer Patients Do to Prevent COVID-19 Infection?
Michael Wang, MD., Ph.D., member of AFCR Scientific Advisory Board The pandemic associated with coronavirus disease COVID-19 is particularly dangerous for someone with cancer, whose body’s primary defense mechanism, the human immune system, is weaker than…
5 Common Cancer Myths and Misconceptions
Ranking as the number one cause of death worldwide, cancer is one of the most frightening diseases in the world today. The deadly disease can affect nearly any part in the body with each type…
2020 CORONAVIRUS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
What is COVID-19? COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new coronavirus that was first reported in China in December 2019. Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that can cause common colds, as well as more…
Innovation Therapeutics—First-in-Class Botanical Cancer Drug Platform
THE CHALLENGE —Unmet Medical Need for Effective Cancer Treatment AFCR’s mission is to reduce the alarming statistics of the burden of cancer in Asia with innovative treatment research that translates into life-saving therapeutics. In 2018,…
EPItome of Progress
“I love science. And I love the science of cancer, because it is often normal processes gone wrong,” says Daniel G. Tenen, M.D., a researcher supported by the Asian Fund for Cancer Research since 2018.…
