Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the CE-IVD marked Ion Torrent Genexus Dx Integrated Sequencer, an automated next-generation sequencing platform that delivers results in as soon as 24 hours.
Paige launched an AI medical device software called Paige Breast Lymph Node that helps pathologists detect if breast cancer has metastasized to lymph nodes, concurrent with pathologists’ own interpretive review.
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month. For further information, contact the principal investigator listed. Phase I – 10449 A Phase 1 Study of ZEN003694 in Combination with Binimetinib in Solid Tumors with RAS Pathway Alterations and Triple Negative Breast Cancer University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center LAOPiha-Paul,... […]
James Allison has reshaped cancer drug development, making checkpoint inhibitors a staple of therapy in many key indications—and dramatically improving survival outcomes in previously recalcitrant diseases.
Cancer mortality fell by 2.1% between 2018 and 2019, compared to a 2.4% relative decrease in the year prior, according to the American Cancer Society’s 2022 Cancer Statistics report.
The rapid acceleration of drug development has exponentially increased the therapeutic options available to patients with cancer.
With the Russian invasion stalled and with a forceful counter-attack by Ukrainian armed forces, many observers caution that the Kremlin might be considering a show of force much as the U.S. did in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (The Cancer Letter, Feb. 25, March 4, March 11, 2022).
Steven A. Rosenberg will be presented with the Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research at the AACR Annual Meeting 2022, to be held in New Orleans April 8-13.
The American Association for Cancer Research has elected 33 scientists to its 2022 class of Fellows of the AACR Academy.
Krishna Komanduri was named division chief of hematology-oncology at University of California, San Francisco Health, effective July 1.
