--- --- # This Cancer Treatment Extends Life by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 5, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 5, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This cancer treatment extends life without pills, radiation or surgery.**](http://nautil.us/blog/this-cancer-treatment-extends-life-without-pills-radiation-or-surgery) By Nikhil Barot in _Nautilus_ **2\.** [**Find out how these refugees awaiting resettlement created their own aid agency.**](https://www.fastcompany.com/40402583/these-syrian-refugees-created-their-own-aid-agency) By Michael Thomas in _Fast Company_ **3\.** [**These are hidden benefits of seeking revenge.**](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170403-the-hidden-upsides-of-revenge) By Melissa Hogenboom in _BBC Future_ **4\.** [**Soon we’ll be keeping the world’s most important data safe from the apocalypse in an Arctic mineshaft.**](http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15159148/norway-data-vault-svalberd-mine-storage) By James Vincent in the _Verge_ **5\.** [**Offering driver’s licenses to the undocumented makes roads safer.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/04/522595858/how-offering-driver-licenses-to-the-undocumented-makes-roads-safer) By Adrian Florido at _NPR Code Switch_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas: This Cancer Treatment Extends Life ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4726402/this-cancer-treatment-extends-life/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4726402/this-cancer-treatment-extends-life/"},"headline":"This Cancer Treatment Extends Life","datePublished":"2017-04-05T16:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:57.044Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4726402/this-cancer-treatment-extends-life/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Cancer","Refugees","Data topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4726402/this-cancer-treatment-extends-life/","name":"This Cancer Treatment Extends Life"}}]}] ```