Quotes: Matthew During on His Mice-Cancer Study

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“We’re really showing that you can’t look at a disease like cancer in isolation. For too long, physicians and other have stuck to what they know – surgery, chemo, radiotherapy. Traditionally working on the area of lifestyle and the brain has been a soft area.”

— PROFESSOR MATTHEW DURING, of Ohio State University, reacting to his cancer study which found that mice placed in environments with three times more mice than they were usually around actually had their tumors go into spontaneous remission, suggesting a link between sociability and health. (via Daily Mail)