April 14, 2015
Article
A research team led by investigators at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has published a study in Nature Communications identifying several new genetic mutations in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
March 26, 2015
Article
Immunotherapy vaccine approaches that involve harvesting a patient’s dendritic cells and priming them to recognize a tumor-specific antigen before injecting them back into the patient to activate a T-cell response against the tumor have achieved encouraging but limited success.
March 11, 2015
Article
Growth in healthcare spending in the United States continues to outpace growth in European countries that enjoy a similar standard of living.
March 07, 2015
Article
Harold Varmus, MD, may be stepping down as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the end of March, but in an interview with Targeted Oncology, he made it clear that he is not retiring.
February 20, 2015
Article
Many patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have no identifiable mutations, and therefore their disease cannot be managed with targeted treatments.
February 17, 2015
Article
Novartis Oncology hopes to overcome many of these challenges with the innovative Signature Clinical Trial program, which “bring[s] the ‘Protocol to the Patient.’â€