- NYTimes reports on a hypothesis from Harvard Medical School that proposes that noncoding DNA may play a role in cancers, esp. involving genes PTEN and KRAS.
- New Scientist reports on a physicist from the University of Heidelberg who has created a mathematical model that predicts growth of tumors.
- Experimental cancer research at the University of Pennsylvania involved genetically modified T-cells which destroyed tumors in leukemia patients. Simultaneously reported in New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine.
- Drexel research demonstrates that music therapy can reduce anxiety and pain in cancer patients.