Cancer Blog
- Dr. Robert Nagourney -

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...

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...