Progress in preventing kidney cancer recurrence
Cancer “adjuvant” therapies are treatments designed to reduce the chances of tumors coming back after surgery. But for decades, attempts to find adjuvant treatments for kidney cancer failed to...
Tag: personalized medicine
Detecting tumor responses before they become deadly
Targeted cancer therapies can be stunningly effective at blocking specific, cancer-driving signals. But all too often, tumors develop resistance by switching to alternative signaling pathways to...
Breaking through the limits of cancer medicine
Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., the new director of precision oncology at Oregon Health & Science University, outlines a vision for the field. Photo: Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D. (OHSU/Kristyna...