Cancer Research News: July 31 – August 13

  • MRI allows for real-time gene therapy for brain cancer, performed at the University of California, San Diego.
  • Some autistic patients have a mutation of the gene PTEN, which can lead to cancer as well.
  • In a recent editorial in JAMA, authors suggest the word “cancer” be eliminated altogether from some common diagnoses.
  • From PLoS Medicine, there is research that proposes new statistical models for cancer decision-making. An editorial co-written by MSKCC’s Dr. Andrew Vickers has also been published.