Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
In Cancer – If It Seems Too Good to Be True, It Probably Is
The panoply of genomic tests that have become available for the selection of chemotherapy drugs and targeted agents continues to grow....
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Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Jan 30, 20143 min read
Cancer Patients Take Heart: The Power of Public Opinion
A January 27, 2014, report on National Public Radio brought recent discussions into sharper focus. Though the story was unrelated to...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Jan 24, 20142 min read
Rallying the Troops to Confront Cancer
The recent blog "Stand Up To Cancer Research!" described some of the pitfalls of modern cancer research and the clinical trial process....
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Jan 13, 20144 min read
Stand Up to Cancer Research! The Downside to Clinical Trials.
As the practice of medicine has moved from a profession to an industrial undertaking, this most human of experiences has fallen prey to...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Dec 26, 20133 min read
Cancer Patients, Genetic Testing and Clinical Outcomes
Two years ago in this blog, I described a young man with an aggressive non-small cell lung cancer. Following his diagnosis he was...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Dec 18, 20132 min read
Organic Whole Milk – The Whole Story
An article in PLOS | One (Organic Production Enhances Milk Nutritional Quality by Shifting Fatty Acid Composition, a United States-wide...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Dec 4, 20133 min read
Gastric (Stomach) Cancer: A Call for Patient Selection
Gastric (stomach) cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide with more than 930,000 diagnoses and 800,000 deaths attributed to...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Nov 20, 20133 min read
Cancer Survival and Matrimony: A Marriage Made In Heaven
The November 1, 2013 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (Marital Status and Survival in Patients with Cancer, Aizer, A. et al J...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Nov 18, 20133 min read
Lowering Your Risk of Pancreatic Cancer - Nuts and Woody Allen
In the 1973 Woody Allen movie ”Sleeper,” Miles Monroe (played by Allen), is the nerdy owner of the Happy Carrot health food store who...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Nov 6, 20132 min read
Cancer Patients Who Get Better, Get Better - Metastatic Colon Cancer
A study published in the October 20 Journal of Clinical Oncology (Use of early tumor shrinkage to predict long-term outcome in metastatic...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Oct 30, 20133 min read
Two Lung Cancer Trials Fall Short but Still Hope for HSP90 Inhibitors
Two related clinical trials were reported in the last several months describing the use of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) inhibitors in...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Oct 20, 20134 min read
The Information Disconnect - Genomics vs Human Cancer Biology
I recently had an interesting conversation with a physician regarding her patient with an aggressive breast cancer. A portion of tumor...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Oct 15, 20132 min read
The 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology
On October 7, 2013, in Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology – two...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Sep 29, 20133 min read
Rare Tumors - Challenges and Triumphs
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...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Sep 24, 20133 min read
Does Chemotherapy Work? Yes and No.
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,”...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Aug 22, 20132 min read
Garlic – The Common Man’s Cure All
A recent study published in the Journal of Cancer Prevention Research by investigators in China compared the outcome of patients with...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Aug 12, 20133 min read
Stage IV Neuroblastoma Response to Therapy Trumps Age
In April of 2013, we received a tissue sample from investigators in Victoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil. The pediatric oncologist involved...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Aug 5, 20132 min read
ASCO Update: Personalized Cancer Therapy – Our Contributions
As part of our ongoing blog postings we like to include recent presentations and publications. On July 9, I described our ASCO...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Jul 29, 20133 min read
The Vitamin Myth, Myth
An article by Paul Offit, MD, published in The Atlantic Monthly, July 19, 2013, reports the lack of evidence supporting the use of...
Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, MD
Jul 26, 20132 min read
New Cancer Drug: Breakthrough or Just Hype?
Having just passed through Ontario’s Pearson International airport on route from eastern Canada, I was struck by an email from one of my...
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