While we’re pouring resources into learning what keeps cancer cells alive, with the aim of blocking their supply lines, there is next to no interest in the molecular pathways that end up choking the life [more]
With the prospect of a chemo-free cure for some blood cancers, and with new targets and new drugs emerging at an unprecedented pace, Simon Crompton asks: Is haematology where the promise of precision medicine will [more]
Oncology is understandably fascinated by ideas around precision treatment. As a medical oncologist who was there when the germs of this approach first appeared 50 years ago, I do of course share the excitement over [more]
The explosion of new information in the era of personalised medicine has created a headache for busy clinicians. Lisa Hutchinson has spent the past 13 years helping them keep abreast of developments by sifting, sorting [more]
Imaging techniques used in staging and evaluation of response to treatment have improved dramatically over the past 120 years. The issue going forward will be learning to combine anatomical and functional imaging modalities to get [more]