Cancer Survivors Who Inspire Us
June 4 is National Cancer Survivors Day. To honor this occasion, we’re sharing the stories of six survivors who inspire us. Some are public figures who are famous the world over. Others are people...
Category: diagnosis
MRI innovation reveals cells’ energy activity in organs and tissues
To survive, every cell in the body puts enormous energy into sustaining the right balance of water and essential electrolytes. Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed a...
Surprising variability in melanoma diagnostic findings
Although pathologists are likely to agree when evaluating skin biopsies that are benign or highly malignant, they often disagree when lesions fall into intermediate categories, new research finds....
Mole Mapper brings open data for cancer research
A new report in Nature Scientific Data explains how researchers can access and use the growing trove of data coming from users of Mole Mapper, a mobile app for tracking suspicious...
What to make of smart machines that may soon outperform doctors
Artificial neural networks are getting really good at identifying skin cancer The first artificial intelligence to solve scientific problems debuted in 1967, when it proved capable of deducing...
The ‘Cancer translated’ blog top ten posts of 2016
The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s "Cancer translated" blog explores new findings, ideas and debates in cancer medicine, from basic biology, to clinical trials, to prevention, survivorship and...
Ambiguous breast biopsies often “overinterpreted”
Pathologists’ tendency to overinterpret breast biopsies may be contributing to the problem of breast cancer overdiagnosis. That’s according to a report this week in Annals of Internal Medicine...
Immune signature in blood could enable earlier detection of pancreatic cancer
Less than one in ten cases of pancreatic cancer in the U.S. are diagnosed at the local stage. And the relative survival rate — around 6 percent at five years — is by far the worst among major...
Tracking metastasis with cell-free DNA
Sequencing the fragments of tumor DNA that circulate in blood may give a more accurate picture of a patient’s metastatic cancer than can be obtained from biopsies. Researchers at the OHSU Knight...