September 2013

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and second leading cause of cancer mortality in American men. Nevertheless, it is estimated that only 3% of the patients will die because of their cancer, while the majority will die of competing causes.

Few of ASCO's past presidents were faced with the multitude of challenges that arose during the presidency of Sandra M. Swain, MD, who is medical director of the Washington Cancer Institute at Medstar Washington Hospital Center and a professor of Medicine at Georgetown University, and is currently ASCO's immediate past president.

Cancer stem cells are an underlying cause of a tumor's ability to recur and metastasize even after initial treatment. Therefore, targeting those cancer stem cells could prove to be a valuable tool in the treatment of several different tumor types.

Over the past year, there has been a multitude of exciting developments in the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Today, more than half of new cancer cases and over two-thirds of cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.

I remember trying to explain to my son when he was in the fifth grade how the genetic code contained in all of our cells is translated, resulting in the various tissues we all possess for daily life

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals is combining biology, computing, and engineering in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of different types of cancer and then use that information to develop new therapeutics.

The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, conducted from January 1997 to February 2003, demonstrated that the 5α-reductase inhibitor (5-ARI) finasteride reduced the risk of developing prostate cancer in men being regularly screened for the disease