- Overall cancer death rates are declining in America, according to The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2009.
- The incidence of some cancers associated with HPV has increased.
- Last year was the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the Janus kinase (JAK)–signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathway, both of which have roles in hematologic cancers.
- Massachusetts researchers have developed a high-tech camera you can swallow that may be an alternative to endoscopy for cancer diagnosis.
Category Archives: In the News
MSKCC in the News: December 26 – January 9
- Lorus Therapeutics Inc. announced that its Phase I clinical study, conducted at MSKCC and the MD Anderson Cancer Center, of LOR-253 has successfully escalated to the target dose level based on predicted and observed clinical effects without limitation by toxicity.
- MSKCC’s Dr. Peter Bach was quoted in a Reuters article about a study that found that pediatricians-in-training are more likely to plan to go into primary care – rather than a specialty field – if they have lots of debt from college and medical school.
- MSKCC was featured in Health Magazine’s top 12 medical breakthroughs of 2012.
Blog Buzz: December 17 – December 21
Scientific dog tricks, a social media user rebellion, a huge pharma settlement and third party free twitter archiving…all coming your way in this week’s blog buzz!
Over at microbe.net Jonathan Eisen introduces us to Cliff, the beagle trained to smell Clostridium difficile in hospitals! There is also a fascinating (and adorable) video of Cliff at work.
There was quite a to-do this week following a Facebook-style change in Instagram’s user agreement which opponents argued allowed the company to sell user photos without paying or notifying them. The uproar from angry users was followed by some speedy back pedaling by Instagram.
The NY Times reported that Amgen has agreed to pay $762 Million for marketing an anemia drug for uses not approved by the FDA.
For all you micro-bloggers out there interested in archiving your tweets, Twitter has announced that you can now download all of your tweets and retweets from the beginning.