"If I had a nickel for every time someone claimed to cure cancer in mice, I'd be a rich man." First thing that comes to mind when reading titles like this. Mi

"If I had a nickel for every time someone claimed to cure cancer in mice, I'd be a rich man." First thing that comes to mind when reading titles like this. Mice is a model for human biomedical research, but far from a perfect one, especially in the cancer field. There are substantial differences that make it hard to extrapolate these results in mice to humans. As a medical biotechnology grad student I read these claims often and it's a shame that most of the time it's impossible to find a reference to the original article. Hard to know than if it's an exaggeration generating false hope or a genuinely promising cure with consequences for treatments in humans.