MSKCC in the News: August 8 – August 21

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Mark

MSKCC’s Jun-ichi Nitadori and colleagues published the results of a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that showed that the new International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), American Thoracic Society (ATS), and European Respiratory Society (ERS) lung adenocarcinoma classification can be used to predict recurrence after limited resection.
MSKCC researchers have evolved hyperswarming pathogenic bacteria adorned with multiple whipping flagella — all the way down to the molecular level — and plan to unleash them in a laboratory. The findings have been published in Cell Reports.
TVR Communications announced that MSKCC will deploy pCare interactive patient systems.

MSKCC in the News: July 25 – August 7

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Mark

MSKCC’s Dr. Larry Norton was quoted in a U.S. News & World Report article about the resulting debate that occurred after a panel of experts writing in the July 29 online edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association expressed that widespread cancer screening programs turn up too many growths that would not progress to a lethal stage and are considered “indolent.”
Visceral pleural invasion (VPI) significantly increases the risk for recurrence and reduces overall survival (OS) in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), reported MSKCC’s Prasad Adusumilli and co-authors in a June 2013 article published in Chest.
The RBC Decathlon benefiting MSKCC, visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Mark

Researchers from MSKCC recently discovered that the most frequently used cancer cell lines in ovarian cancer research are not suitable models of ovarian cancer.
MSKCC’s Andrew Vickers was quoted in a Time article about a study that links omega-3 fatty acids to an elevated risk of prostate cancer.
Researchers at MSKCC, together with collaborators in Germany, have developed a new method for identifying the cell of origin of intracellular and secreted proteins within multicellular environments.