- Cancer deaths in the U.S. have declined from 1999 to 2008.
- Cruciferous vegetable intake is associated with decreased mortality and recurrence in breast cancer patients.
- Epigenetic changes in cells can indicate cancer risk.
- A new genomic marker database, CancerRXGene.org , presents information on drug sensitivity and cancer cell lines.
- A UCSF study found disparities in use of fertility preservation in young women with cancer.
Category Archives: In the News
MSKCC in the News: March 22 – April 4
- MSKCC’s Dr. Larry Norton writes in The Huffington Post about the collaboration between IBM and MSKCC in applying Watson technology to help oncologists.
- Researchers from MSKCC contributed to a study that found that a noninvasive scan might someday help doctors track the progress of prostate cancer and help guide treatment.
Blog Buzz: March 25 – March 30
In news from the blogs;
- There has been a lot going on at the Supreme Court – human gene patents have been thrown out, but most attention seems to have been focused on the healthcare reform case. Here is the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein on three ways the court could rule against the mandate.
- Big news on big data—the NIH put the world’s largest set of data on human genetic variation, The 1000 Genomes Project, on Amazon’s cloud, and the White House announced a big data initiative (see the NY Times story).
- In honor of Thursday’s House hearings on open access to federally funded research (which were summed up on Wired Campus), consider a thought-provoking February post by T. Scott Pluchak (who testified) called We can do better than FRPPA.