Bringing together the leaders in cancer early detection

The Early Detection of Cancer Conference is part of a long-term commitment to invest in early detection, to understand the biology behind early stage cancers, find new detection and screening...

Clearing the quandary of cancer early detection

For many cancers, five-year survival rates approach 99 percent if the disease is detected early, when tumors are small and not yet spreading. But efforts to detect cancers early have led to a...

New funding for a dire need: Pancreas cancer early detection

With a $250,000 award from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, researchers will seek to validate biomarkers able to detect pancreas cancer months or years before patients experience overt symptoms...

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...

Advancing a potential blood test for pancreatic cancer

Immunovia’s "IMMray" technology uses an antibody microarray to detect the protein signature of pancreatic cancer in blood samples. The Swedish biotech firm Immunovia reached another milestone...

Engineering precision in cancer early detection

Sadik Esener, Ph.D., is the engineer tapped to lead a major new cancer early detection program at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. Medical science has come up with only a few ways to detect...

How cancer screening may fail to save lives

With the advent of mass screening by Pap smear, cervical cancer incidence and death rates declined by more than 60 percent in the U.S. between 1955 and 1992. It was a triumphant demonstration of the...