Surfing the web, I uncovered these news items worth sharing

• Cancer researchers at Lund University in Sweden have teamed up with Robert Egnell at the Swedish Defence University to explore whether or not military strategy could be used as inspiration for cancer treatment.

• Results from a recent clinical trial shows that treating older patients who have malignant brain cancer with the chemotherapy drug temozolomide plus a short course of radiation therapy extended the life of patients with glioblastoma. The findings were published in the NEJM.
• A prospective clinical trial demonstrated that a that a blood test looking at specific biomarkers was able to detect recurrences of lung cancer an average of six months before conventional imaging methods found evidence of recurrence. The findings were recently presented at the 2017 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium .  From the list of abstracts, see #3.