A Method to Barcode Cancer Cells, New Lung Cancer Guidelines and More…

Surfing the web I uncovered these news items worth sharing:

  • The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released new lung cancer guidelines that recommend that current and former smokers between the ages of 55 and 74, who are at high risk of developing lung cancer, should be screened annually for up to three years with low-dose CT scans.
  • According to researchers at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, Twitter may be effective in recruiting cancer patients for clinical trials. Read more about their findings in JAMA Oncology.
  • Researchers at the University of Louisville have found a link between Porphyromonas gingivalis, the bacterial species that causes gingivitis, and esophageal cancer. The results of their study were published in Infectious Agents and Cancer.
  • Researchers at MIT and Harvard have developed a new method called PRISM (Profiling Relative Inhibition Simultaneously in Mixtures) to uniquely barcode more than 100 cancer cells. These DNA barcodes could ultimately aide in the development of new drugs to fight cancer. Read more on their findings in Nature Biotechnology.