Oncology & Cancer
Shortage of vital children's cancer drug stirs fear and outrage
A critical shortage of a chemotherapy used to treat most childhood cancers has galvanized oncologists and parents of sick children.
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Patient cost responsibility up for guideline-discordant care
(HealthDay)—For patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC), receipt of National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guideline-discordant care is associated with higher patient cost responsibility, according to a study published ...
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Oncology & Cancer
A partnership to tackle childhood cancers in developing countries
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are joining forces to combat childhood cancers in developing countries, where children are four times more likely to die of the disease ...
Oct 18, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Development and analytical validation of a next-generation sequencing based microsatellite instabili
The referenced article describes an assay that has a clinically relevant five-day turnaround time and can be conducted on as little as 20 ng genomic DNA with a batch size of up to forty samples in a single run.
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Medical research
New diagnostic method finds aggressive tumors
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new, cheap method that can identify highly heterogeneous tumors that tend to be very aggressive, and therefore need to be treated more aggressively. The technique ...
Oct 18, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
A compound effective against chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells identified
A compound effective in killing chemotherapy-resistant glioblastoma-initiating cells (GICs) has been identified, raising hopes of producing drugs capable of eradicating refractory tumors with low toxicity.
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