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Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer: is cancer that forms in the cells of the breasts. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States.
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 17, 2013 | 6:00 AM
The widespread adoption of precision medicine in oncology requires: a compendium of therapies targeting the genetic vulnerabilities of cancer; the diagnostic tools capable of generating a pr...
OCT 16, 2013 | 12:00 PM
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The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E is a potent oncogene estimated to be elevated in about 30% of human cancers including cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, colon as well a...
OCT 16, 2013 | 12:00 PM
The effective implementation of personalised cancer therapeutic regimens depends on the successful identification and translation of informative biomarkers to aid clinical decision making. Th...
OCT 16, 2013 | 11:00 AM
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Cancer and diabetes are complex diseases that have proven difficult to treat in the clinics. Until recently, most efforts have focused on hitting individual therapeutic targets cleanly. Unfor...
OCT 16, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, a...
OCT 16, 2013 | 10:00 AM
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The current paradigm of detecting established cancer (often too late) and treating routinely with cytotoxic drugs is beginning to change. Advanced technologies such as whole genome sequencin...
OCT 16, 2013 | 9:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
It is now appreciated that breast cancer is not a single disease, but instead is a spectrum of tumor subtypes with distinct cellular origins, somatic changes and somewhat predictable clinical...
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...
AUG 21, 2013 | 8:00 AM
In this presentation I describe some of the approaches we are taking to identify the genetic architecture of common complex cancers with a particular focus on the etiology of lung cancer. Can...
MAY 30, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, as...
SEP 13, 2012 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
 The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E is a potent oncogene estimated to be elevated in about 30% of human cancers including cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, colon as well ...
OCT 26, 2011 | 2:00 PM
 Autophagy is a normal degradative pathway that involves the sequestration of entire organelles, protein complexes, and misfolded proteins in a membrane vacuole called the autophagosome. The ...
MAY 30, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, as...
SEP 13, 2012 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
 The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E is a potent oncogene estimated to be elevated in about 30% of human cancers including cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, colon as well ...
OCT 26, 2011 | 2:00 PM
 Autophagy is a normal degradative pathway that involves the sequestration of entire organelles, protein complexes, and misfolded proteins in a membrane vacuole called the autophagosome. The ...