Cancer Blog
- Dr. Robert Nagourney -

Genomic profiling has gained popularity in medical oncology. Using NextGen platforms, protein coding regions of human tumors known as...

Medical care in the United States is a $2.7 trillion industry. That translates into almost $8,000 per person per year. One of the most...

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

Dr. Nagourney and Loretta Stamos On Monday, September 22, 2014, we lost a great ally and a better friend. Loretta Stamos lost her own...

I was invited to discuss a new diagnostic test for the early detection of lung cancer by Gerri Willis of Fox Business News’ Willis Report....

Few dictates of modern medicine could be considered more sacrosanct than the prohibition of excess salt intake in our daily diets. For...

Oncologists confront numerous hurdles as they attempt to apply the new cancer prognostic and predictive tests. Among them are the...

Some of the most interesting literature on cancer comes from journals that are not directly involved in the field. I was reminded of this...

Shortly after I left the university and joined a medical oncology group, one of the junior members of the practice asked if I would cover...

In October 2012, we published a study of patients with metastatic NSCLC whose treatment was guided by ourEVA-PCD laboratory analysis. The...

I was recently provided a video link to a December 2013 TEDx conference presentation entitled, "Big Data Meets Cancer" by Neil Hunt,...

In the mid 1980s, it became apparent to me that cancer did not result from uncontrolled cell proliferation, but instead from the lack of...

A dying leukemia cell. The principles underlying the Rational Therapeutics EVA-PCD platform reflect many years of development. ...

According to Wikipedia, cancer research is “basic research into cancer in order to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention,...

For anyone engaged in developmental therapeutics and for those patients who need new approaches to their cancers, an editorial in the...

When asked to define what constituted pornography in his 1964 Supreme Court decision (Jacobellis versus Ohio 1964) Justice Potter Stewart...

Clinical oncologists can be divided into different camps. There are those who see patient outcomes as a means-to-an-end. Each clinical...

The 1984 celebrated case of Baby Fae described the efforts of intrepid investigators at Loma Linda University in California to save the...

For those of you who have read my book Outliving Cancer you will recognize the chapter entitled “Outliving Hospice.” It is the...

A day in the life of advanced breast cancer. Two different 37-year-old breast cancer patients, both mothers of young children, were seen...