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Cancer “Cures” and Using Brain-based Research to Teach Children | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Cancer “Cures” and Using Brain-based Research to Teach Children | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Cancer “Cures” and Using Brain-based Research to Teach Children

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The history of searching for a cancer cure began with “radical surgery” for breast cancer–hailed as a “cure” in the early 1920s.* The restless search then moved to radiation for different cancers including Hodgkins disease in the 1950s, feeding the hope that the lethal disease had found a “cure.” Then in the 1960s researchers bent their