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Blood Cancer
Blood cancer originates in the blood and has 3 different types. It occurs when the body creates too many abnormal white blood cells and interferes the production of the other blood cells.
MAY 14, 2015 | 7:30 AM
I will discuss the use of genomic technologies - mostly ultrahigh-throughput DNA sequencing - to study normal human biology and to determine what goes wrong when we have disease. First I wil...
MAY 14, 2015 | 6:00 AM
Cancer is complex, but recent findings are yielding a greater understanding of the disease. The tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are implicated in breast, ovarian, prostate, and other c...
MAY 13, 2015 | 6:00 AM
Cancers exhibit abnormal molecular signatures associated with disease initiation and progression. Molecular signatures could improve cancer screening, detection, drug development and selectio...
OCT 30, 2014 | 3:00 PM
Mass spectrometry (MS)-based profiling of clinical specimens has been increasingly used in cancer research to characterize changes in protein expression between tumor and healthy tissue or be...
OCT 30, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Female cancer patients in the reproductive years face a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which pose teratogenic hazards to an unexpected pregnancy. Ionizing radiation, diagnos...
OCT 30, 2014 | 9:00 AM
Both cell free DNA (cfDNA) and circulating tumor cells (CTC) represent important possible templates for mutation analysis of clinical samples. Each template has different theoretical advantag...
OCT 29, 2014 | 1:30 PM
Human malignant glioma is a uniformly fatal disease, causing over 14,000 deaths in the US this year. Adults diagnosed with malignant brain tumors have a median survival of approximately 15 mo...
OCT 29, 2014 | 9:00 AM
Post-translational methylations play central roles in epigenetic gene regulation pathways that are central to stem cell regulation. Lysine methylations are turn-on switches for hundreds of di...
FEB 05, 2014 | 2:00 PM
Nonhuman primates in captivity are typically provided with a multitude of behavioral management opportunities, including naturalistic social groupings, foraging devices, complex physical envi...
OCT 17, 2013 | 12:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Invading cancer cells leave the tumor to form distant metastases and are ultimately responsible for 90% of deaths in cancer. Reducing the ability of cancer cells to invade and metastasize cou...
OCT 17, 2013 | 11:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Curative therapy for metastatic disease in solid malignancies remains frustratingly elusive due to the long recognized problem of tumor cell heterogeneity and emergence of treatment resistant...
OCT 17, 2013 | 9:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Cancer metastases develop when tumor cells known as circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are shed from a tumor, circulate through the blood stream and colonize a distant tissue. The number of CTCs...
OCT 16, 2013 | 2:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
While the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test has been available since 1986 and FDA-approved for the early detection of prostate cancer since the early 1990s, 2012 marked a critical in...
OCT 16, 2013 | 1:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Cancer cells have historically been classified by microscopic analysis of blood smears and tissue sections. Current technologies use molecular techniques to categorize and classify tumor cell...
AUG 22, 2013 | 5:00 PM
As Chief of Scientific Intelligence at the John Wayne Cancer Institute, Dr. Hoon interacts with external academic, industry, and government agencies to develop innovative translational rese...