Cancer Blog
- Dr. Robert Nagourney -

A doctor goes through many stages in the course of his or her career. Like Jacques’ famous soliloquy in Shakespeare’s “As you Like It,”...

A recent study published in the Journal of Cancer Prevention Research by investigators in China compared the outcome of patients with...

In April of 2013, we received a tissue sample from investigators in Victoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil. The pediatric oncologist involved...

As part of our ongoing blog postings we like to include recent presentations and publications. On July 9, I described our ASCO...

An article by Paul Offit, MD, published in The Atlantic Monthly, July 19, 2013, reports the lack of evidence supporting the use of...

Having just passed through Ontario’s Pearson International airport on route from eastern Canada, I was struck by an email from one of my...

The 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, held May 31 – June 1, in Chicago, afforded the opportunity to report three...

Before I attended the ASCO meeting in Chicago, I penned a blog about a Forbes magazine article that described increasing restrictions...

An article by Scott Gottlieb, MD, in Forbes (Medicare Nixes Coverage for New Cancer Tests), described Medicare reimbursement for new...

Angelina Jolie’s willingness to bravely publish her saga, as she confronts the risk of a nefarious form of cancer, has focused...

The New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra famous quote, “Déjà vu all over again,” reminds me of the growing focus on the concept of “N-...

The American Association for Cancer Research meeting held April 6 - 10 in Washington DC, provided a scientific perspective on oncologic...

I received an inquiry via Twitter “Has anyone thought about using a sugar medium (similar to PET scans) to deliver chemo drugs?” Although...

There is a long tradition of maintenance therapy in pediatric oncology. Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia or ALL uniformly...

During my interview with Jeff Michaels on the March 28, 5:00 P.M. Fox News, we explored the themes of my current book, Outliving Cancer....

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

I met a charming patient in my office this week. A gentleman with advanced gastric (stomach) cancer. Upon further examination of his...

An interesting editorial appeared in the February 2013 issue of Nature Biotechnology titled “Dishing out cancer treatment.” The lead line...

This is a question that has vexed scientific investigators for centuries, and for the last century, our belief was predicated upon...

An interesting paper was published in the January 10 NEJM (Abiraterone in Metastatic Prostate Cancer with Previous Chemotherapy, Ryan et...