It sometimes feels like we do all this research, identify syndromes and actionable mutations, create molecular diagnostics, targeted therapies and IO treatmentsand you still end up with cancer patients going undiagnosed and treated with antibiotics.

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A litany of questions ran through my head as I read this:

If you have a patient with a family history of cancer, why was she not initially screened for any familial syndromes?

Why was she not on a surveillance program?

Best Jazz album. Been listening to Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck and Mingus just to mix it up a bit.

Melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) are each serious clinical challenges due to how common or aggressive they are and how poorly they often respond to treatment. Which is why researchers are determined to develop an effective treatment for all of them.

a form developed from tumor lysate -inactive cancer cells from actual tumors- to mimic the complex mixture of proteins in human cancers. The vaccine was shown to protect against a number of different types: 88% of mice from pancreatic cancer, 75% from breast cancer, and 69% from melanoma. The

Something that was conserved between pig and human systems. This is particularly useful in the context of anti-pancreatic cancer effects of statins as shown in a recent article: www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... /3