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At Columbia, patients with brain cancer will be able to participate in a new type of clinical trial that promises to speed up the development of better drugs for glioblastoma.
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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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- 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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- February 26, 2015
Director of the National Cancer Institute, Harold Varmus, MD'66, talked about the challenges and goals of precision medicine's efforts to tackle cancer.
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- February 23, 2015
Household net worth is a major and overlooked factor in adherence to hormonal therapy among breast cancer patients and partially explains racial disparities in quality of care.
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- February 19, 2015
An article in Cancer Today describes how the film based on Siddhartha Mukherjee's book came about.
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- February 9, 2015
The drug Gleevec is well known not only for its effectiveness against leukemia. A similar drug might be able to tame some brain cancers, new research from Columbia University Medical Center has shown.
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- February 5, 2015
Three-part, six-hour documentary is based on Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer."
- January 30, 2015
Two Columbia University Medical Center faculty members were present today when President Obama provided details of the precision medicine initiative he announced during this year’s State of the Union address.
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- January 20, 2015
Azra Raza, an internationally known specialist in the blood disorder myelodysplastic syndrome, sees patients who travel from all over the country to receive the latest therapies and to participate in research studies for this relatively rare condition.
- January 8, 2015
By tracing cancers back to their cells of origin, Columbia researchers are learning why some cancers become aggressive.
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- December 17, 2014
The new treatment for basal cell nevus syndrome, also called Gorlin syndrome, springs from an unlikely location: Idaho’s mountain pastures.
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