Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

• Cancer cases rising rapidly worldwide according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO). Death rates from malignant diseases are prominent in developing countries where treatments are limited and detection of disease often comes too late.  For more visit this story from NPR.
• Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in the Bronx have identified a chemical stem cell signature that predicts whether AML (acute myeloid leukemia) patients will respond to chemotherapy.  Their findings have been published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
• Chemists at Stanford develop new technique aimed at improving stomach cancer surgery results. More on their innovation can be found in PNAS.

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