OHSU leadership on stage at AACR
Dozens of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute researchers commanded the spotlight at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Lisa Coussens, Ph.D., who concluded...
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Accelerating discovery collaboratively with patients as partners: Q&A with Shannon McWeeney
Shannon McWeeney, Ph.D., works at the intersection of computer science, biostatistics, genetics and medicine, finding ways to speed cancer research past the bottlenecks stalling progress. She’s...
An elaborate clinical trial aims a multitude of targeted therapies at one formidable cancer
A $10 million gift from The Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation will help The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society expand the Beat AML Master Trial underway at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and other...
Expert cancer care, closer to home
Collaboration gives distant patients access to specialized cancer treatment. After Claudia Burton's mother died of ovarian cancer, always on the back of her mind was the possibility she too might...
The promise of early detection
Nearly a century ago, a Greek immigrant physician in New York City began refining microscopy techniques for examining cells gently scraped from the female reproductive tract. The results were...
Overcoming the impasse in acute myeloid leukemia research
Nine drug companies and six universities have now joined an unusual collaboration to break the logjam in research on acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a blood cancer lacking effective treatments....
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...