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Cancer, Aging and the Importance of the Tumor Microenvironment

Professor Ashani Weeraratna has been studying the cancer microenvironment in her lab for the past 17 years. Taking into account that the tissues in our bodies change as we age is important when researching cancer biology. She hopes that gaining a better understanding of how the growth of cancer cells is affected by their direct cellular "neighborhood", especially when we age, could be key to developing better treatments for patients with cancer.