Cancer Blog
- Dr. Robert Nagourney -

Surgery remains the most curative form of cancer treatment. While the reasons for this are many, the most obvious being earlier stage of...

In his brilliant 1998 book, Consilience, Edward O. Wilson, notes: “The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that...

The ethical standards that govern human experimentation have become an important topic of discussion. Clinical trials are conducted to...

The term “triple negative breast cancer” (TNBC) is applied to a subtype of breast cancers that do not express the estrogen or...

The use of low-dose radiation to detect occult breast malignancies can be traced to work done at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in the...

I recently returned from a lecture tour at the Barretos Cancer Center of Brazil located 300 miles from Sao Paulo. This cancer center,...

The panoply of genomic tests that have become available for the selection of chemotherapy drugs and targeted agents continues to grow....

A January 27, 2014, report on National Public Radio brought recent discussions into sharper focus. Though the story was unrelated to...

The recent blog "Stand Up To Cancer Research!" described some of the pitfalls of modern cancer research and the clinical trial process....

As the practice of medicine has moved from a profession to an industrial undertaking, this most human of experiences has fallen prey to...

Two years ago in this blog, I described a young man with an aggressive non-small cell lung cancer. Following his diagnosis he was...

An article in PLOS | One (Organic Production Enhances Milk Nutritional Quality by Shifting Fatty Acid Composition, a United States-wide...

Gastric (stomach) cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide with more than 930,000 diagnoses and 800,000 deaths attributed to...

The November 1, 2013 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (Marital Status and Survival in Patients with Cancer, Aizer, A. et al J...

In the 1973 Woody Allen movie ”Sleeper,” Miles Monroe (played by Allen), is the nerdy owner of the Happy Carrot health food store who...

A study published in the October 20 Journal of Clinical Oncology (Use of early tumor shrinkage to predict long-term outcome in metastatic...

Two related clinical trials were reported in the last several months describing the use of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) inhibitors in...

I recently had an interesting conversation with a physician regarding her patient with an aggressive breast cancer. A portion of tumor...

On October 7, 2013, in Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology – two...

When I am asked how our EVA-PCD laboratory platform might best be applied, I have several responses. On the one hand, there is my...