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...
Oncologists often use the phrase "clinically meaningful benefit" to describe the effect of an experimental treatment. But is the benefit meaningful for patients? A new paper suggests that benefit...
Unlike the other major causes of cancer mortality, pancreatic cancer is increasing in both incidence and number of deaths each year. Despite improvements in early detection and therapy that have...
Breakthrough. Game changer. Revolutionary. Transformative. Life saver. A new analysis of media coverage found that half of new cancer drugs described with such superlatives had not received Food and...