- The United States Preventive Services Task Force issued recommendations against PSA testing.
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute offers funding opportunities to support comparative effectiveness research.
- Johnson & Johnson’s Zytiga shows promising results in treating prostate cancer.
- Gene therapy may protect normal cells from chemotherapy.
Category Archives: In the News
MSKCC in the News: May 3 – May 21
- Mary S. McCabe of MSKCC is quoted in an ABC News article about the new challenges that cancer surivors face.
- Oncology & Biotech News interviews MSKCC’s Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD.
- Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and MSKCC have amassed strong experimental evidence implying that commonly occurring large chromosomal deletions that are seen in many cancer types contain areas harboring multiple functionally linked genes whose loss, they posit, confers a survival advantage on growing tumors.
Blog Buzz: May 13 – May 18
Catching my eye on the internet this week…
Jody at the blog Women With Cancer sums up recent findings in the field of breast cancer, which include some potential for big changes in treatment, in her post Between the Headlines. You choose.
Check out the ASCO 2012 preview post from Sally Church with video rundown of the posters and sessions she’s watching.
The Percolator, a Chronicle of Higher Education blog, touches on how science is communicated to a popular audience in Scoring the Showdown between a Scientist and a Storyteller
Ezra Klein on Wonk Blog from the Washington Post discusses a recent house bill that he feels will politicize NSF funding.