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...
Tag: science literacy
What magnitude of benefit is meaningful to cancer patients?
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...
Marquam Hill Lecture: Confronting the unexpected rise of pancreas cancer
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...
News hype clouds public understanding of cancer research
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...