A blood test looking for your DNA is proving increasingly useful, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Some cancer tests and prenatal assessments already use DNA found circulating in someone’s blood to look for certain cancers or assure the health of a fetus. Now Peter Abadir, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues are using such …
Your own genetic material from two cellular locations can be found in your blood, Elizabeth Tracey reports
It may now be possible to tell who is going to react badly to some forms of cancer therapy, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Using two immunotherapies in colon cancer helps, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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People with a type of advanced colorectal cancer who were treated with two different immunotherapy drugs did much better than a group treated with a standard type of chemotherapy, a new study reports. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at …
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Studying cancers in three dimensions has revealed a kind of regression, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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As cancer cells grow, a study looking at their three dimensional architecture reveals that they become more like cells normally seen in fetal life. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson says that may be the key to enabling …
What are we learning from studying cancers in three dimensions? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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An effort is underway to characterize cancerous tumors in three dimensions, with an eye toward a more complete understanding of their behavior. A series of papers have recently come out describing what’s been seen so far. William Nelson, director of …
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