These cancer patients write their own story
They hurt. They weep. They fly. They soar above the thunderheads. They plunge back to earth. They hold fast to their lovers and their children. They bruise. They burn. They heal. Cancer is not a...
Tag: early detection
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...
Oregon’s precision medicine pioneer targets earlier cancer detection
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director Brian Druker talked with Medscape Editor-in-chief Eric Topol about breaking out of one-size-fits-all thinking in cancer screening and prevention. "We are now in...
Oncologist Brian Druker on Live Wire Radio: “We’re seeing results we never thought imaginable”
"Oncologists actually are now optimists. When I started out in this business we were a bunch of pessimists," Druker told a crowd at Portland's Alberta Rose Theatre. "We're seeing results we never...
Jay Leno talks with Brian Druker and other cancer experts about the promise of early detection
The inaugural Sondland-Durant Early Detection of Cancer Conference featured an appearance by comedian and television host Jay Leno. He led a discussion with Brian Druker, M.D., director of the OHSU...
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...