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Oncology personal medicine
Personalized medicine is practiced when doctors consider specific information of an individual patient when planning a course of treatment. In oncology, personalized medicine can include an understanding of the genetic profile of the cancer as well as clinical and demographic factors of the patient. Personalized cancer medicine can the potential to help individual patients and also develop novel, effective cancer therapeutics.
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JUN 05, 2018Cancer
So often the phrases "Precision Medicine" and "Personalized Medicine" are used interchangeably. Are they really synonym ...Written By: Mauri BrueggemanJUN 05, 2018Cancer
Phase III clinical trial research shows evidence that early breast cancer patients with common breast cancer type do not ...Written By: Mauri BrueggemanMAY 26, 2018Clinical & Molecular DX
A new tool may help reduce the use of CT scans in lung cancer detection, which can cause harm.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 22, 2018Cancer
Novel PD-L1/TGF-ß fusion protein for HPV-associated cancers enters phase II clinical trial. Oncology researchers excite ...Written By: Mauri BrueggemanMAY 21, 2018Cancer
Epigenetics is defined and outlined as important in gene expression and a possible cause for cancer development & as a t ...Written By: Mauri BrueggemanMAY 15, 2018Cancer
Understanding a cancer diagnosis can feel overwhelming for individuals not familiar with medicine and the language used. ...Written By: Mauri BrueggemanMAY 14, 2018Cancer
Computational Oncology is an emerging field of science and medicine aimed at using mathematical and computer modeling sy ...Written By: Mauri BrueggemanMAY 08, 2018Cancer
Indicator-based pricing is a new model being used for cancer drugs for different diseases in an effort to create a more ...Written By: Mauri BrueggemanAPR 10, 2018Cancer
A new study reports that the use of a Colorectal Cancer Screening iPad App helped to increase the number of patients tha ...Written By: Mauri BrueggemanDEC 26, 2017Cancer
These families give rave reviews of Animal Assisted Interaction in hospitals.Written By: Julia TraversDEC 03, 2017Genetics & Genomics
Doctors want to improve leukemia treatment for kids, which causes devastating side effects.Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 11, 2017Cancer
Seemingly innocent sips of alcohol on the daily may be increasing a person’s overall risk for several types of can ...OCT 08, 2017Microbiology
Bacteria live on and in us and have been found to exert a major influence on our health. Researchers want to know about ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 13, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
In a first for the US, a committee of experts appointed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an experi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 06, 2017Cancer
Exercise and/or psychological therapy work better than medications to reduce cancer-related fatigue and should be recomm ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)DEC 30, 2016Cancer
A common misconception is that cancer is caused by a single mutation in the genetic code. In many cases, however, the si ...SEP 19, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In the past year, biomedical engineers have created lab-grown heart cells, retinal nerve cells, and even vocal cords tha ...APR 04, 2016Videos
Molecular diagnostics is growing rapidly as tools to help analyze biological markers become more advanced. Molecular dia ...Written By: Jennifer EllisMAR 11, 2016Health & Medicine
A common reaction to learning you have cancer is shock. A person's struggle with the diagnosis and the subseque ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetFEB 17, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In the fight against childhood leukemia, small variables can have big effects in the successful outcomes for patients&rs ...SEP 15, 2015Immunology
Today, a review from Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research brought to ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 13, 2015Cancer
A team at the University of Pennsylvania reported that a multiple myeloma patient whose cancer had stopped respondi ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 03, 2015Cancer
A genetic test can predict whether some women’s breast cancer will recur, and that could influence how chemotherap ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 02, 2015Cancer
Experts speaking at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2015 Conference and publishing in the New England ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
JUN 05, 2018
Cancer
So often the phrases "Precision Medicine" and "Personalized Medicine" are used interchangeably. Are they really synonym
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
JUN 05, 2018
Cancer
Phase III clinical trial research shows evidence that early breast cancer patients with common breast cancer type do not
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
MAY 26, 2018
Clinical & Molecular DX
A new tool may help reduce the use of CT scans in lung cancer detection, which can cause harm.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 22, 2018
Cancer
Novel PD-L1/TGF-ß fusion protein for HPV-associated cancers enters phase II clinical trial. Oncology researchers excite
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
MAY 21, 2018
Cancer
Epigenetics is defined and outlined as important in gene expression and a possible cause for cancer development & as a t
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
MAY 15, 2018
Cancer
Understanding a cancer diagnosis can feel overwhelming for individuals not familiar with medicine and the language used.
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
MAY 14, 2018
Cancer
Computational Oncology is an emerging field of science and medicine aimed at using mathematical and computer modeling sy
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
MAY 08, 2018
Cancer
Indicator-based pricing is a new model being used for cancer drugs for different diseases in an effort to create a more
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
APR 10, 2018
Cancer
A new study reports that the use of a Colorectal Cancer Screening iPad App helped to increase the number of patients tha
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
DEC 26, 2017
Cancer
These families give rave reviews of Animal Assisted Interaction in hospitals.
Written By:
Julia Travers
DEC 03, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Doctors want to improve leukemia treatment for kids, which causes devastating side effects.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 11, 2017
Cancer
Seemingly innocent sips of alcohol on the daily may be increasing a person’s overall risk for several types of can
...
OCT 08, 2017
Microbiology
Bacteria live on and in us and have been found to exert a major influence on our health. Researchers want to know about
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 13, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
In a first for the US, a committee of experts appointed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an experi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 06, 2017
Cancer
Exercise and/or psychological therapy work better than medications to reduce cancer-related fatigue and should be recomm
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
DEC 30, 2016
Cancer
A common misconception is that cancer is caused by a single mutation in the genetic code. In many cases, however, the si
...
SEP 19, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In the past year, biomedical engineers have created lab-grown heart cells, retinal nerve cells, and even vocal cords tha
...
APR 04, 2016
Videos
Molecular diagnostics is growing rapidly as tools to help analyze biological markers become more advanced. Molecular dia
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
MAR 11, 2016
Health & Medicine
A common reaction to learning you have cancer is shock. A person's struggle with the diagnosis and the subseque
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
FEB 17, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In the fight against childhood leukemia, small variables can have big effects in the successful outcomes for patients&rs
...
SEP 15, 2015
Immunology
Today, a review from Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research brought to
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 13, 2015
Cancer
A team at the University of Pennsylvania reported that a multiple myeloma patient whose cancer had stopped respondi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 03, 2015
Cancer
A genetic test can predict whether some women’s breast cancer will recur, and that could influence how chemotherap
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 02, 2015
Cancer
Experts speaking at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2015 Conference and publishing in the New England
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider