This week brought 4 major new Nature papers on genomics. Over the next 20 years, the findings they report, will: 1) materially impact...

Hopefully this incredible machine will help researchers against cancer fulfill  Jeff Huber’s call to “find a better way” to take on...

“Cancer” is a beast that kills 560,000 Americans per year, and millions more around the globe. “Cancer” akes many forms, most of which...

After various delays, the new, more detailed ICD-10 coding takes effect in October. The ICD-10 coding is more detailed than is current...

“Patent think” continues to retrench and retrace after SCOTUS’ series of unanimous rulings that ended patents for discovery of laws of...

The ongoing annual AACR meeting this week included some sort of encouraging (but far from final) news on using immunotherapy to counter...

The ongoing annual AACR meeting this week included some fairly encouraging clinical trial news for treatment of pleural mesothelioma. One...

Wendy Harpham, MD, leads Wendy’s Eagles in a 2015 fundraising walk for lymphoma research. Wendy is alive and thriving 23+  years after...

Changes in the world of science mean that tort lawyers of today and tomorrow soon will see and learn far more about genomic mutations in...

Nature Genetics includes a free, very useful article on copy number variations across cancers of all types. The review is based on a...

A June 13, 2014  paper by Dr. Joseph Testa and colleagues expands the ongoing investigation into the relationships among mesothelioma,...

It’s a necessary but sobering annual rite of spring – ASCO members arrive in Chicago for the annual meeting of oncologists at McCormick...

Evidence continues to accumulate regarding epigenetic changes and cancer. A May 30, 2014 article in ScienceDaily reports on a breast...

Yesterday’s post pointed out the new solid tumor mutation test offered by Foundation Medicine.  The molecular biology revolution also...

The diseases we collectively call cancer are both simple in concept (cell immortality leads to a tumor) and complex to treat (almost all...

Football season brings us all back in touch with alma maters. For Big 10 alums, it’s good to see most of the Big 10 school also trying to...

A new paper by Bianco and Demers – available here at no charge – concludes that Canada is seeing notable increases in occupational...

A good weekend for news on progress against blood cancers. The news is coming out now because the weekend and first part of this week are...

Lives can hang in the balance when reports are written to summarize the results of medical studies. Sadly, some scientists do commit...

While mesothelioma continues to kill, researchers continue to look for ways to slow or manage the disease. This BBC article reports on...