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Leading physician and researcher, Lisa Kachnic, MD, will lead Columbia's department of radiation oncology.
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Anil Rustgi, the new director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, talks about new ideas in cancer research, the best patient care, and the importance of physician-scientists.
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A clinical trial at Columbia and other centers found that patients responded to a new “smart drug” for women with an aggressive form of breast cancer.
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Fewer than 1 in 10 patients with glioblastoma—the most common type of brain cancer—respond to immunotherapy; a new study reveals how to detect patients who may respond.
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- October 5, 2015
KEYTRUDA is an immunotherapy that blocks the interaction between PD-1 and its ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2, helping the immune system to help detect and fight cancer cells.
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- September 23, 2015
The Columbia Combined Cancer Panel has been granted full approval by the New York State Department of Health.
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- September 18, 2015
Dr. Naiyer Rizvi, director of thoracic oncology at CUMC, offers updates on immune checkpoint inhibitors in certain forms of lung cancers.
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- May 26, 2015
Columbia scientists have created new decoy drugs that can intercept the deceptive growth signals that cancer cells send out.
- April 14, 2015
A study of the genomes of patients with a particularly aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma shows that many cases are driven by alterations in the JAK/STAT3 cell signaling pathway.
- March 26, 2015
Nearly 50 years after the “war on cancer” was declared in the United States, precision medicine is changing the face of cancer research.
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- March 19, 2015
At a special event at Columbia, oncologists and scientists will discuss how new research is changing the way cancer is being treated.
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- March 16, 2015
At Columbia, every pediatric cancer patient’s tumor is sequenced, so personalized treatment may be considered.
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- March 12, 2015
Advances in how the immune system can be harnessed to fight cancer offer new hope to patients with lung cancer.
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