Researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Brown University School of Public Health, and the University of California San Francisco have introduced a novel immune-profiling method capable of reporting specific immune cell types using only DNA from blood, rather than from fresh cell samples.
Breast, bladder, and pancreatic cancers are increasingly being treated with a broad range of therapies before a patient undergoes surgery, and cancer stage at diagnosis continues to be a leading factor in determining a person’s survival rate for all types of cancer, according to the first-ever annual cancer report from the National Cancer Database.
