Cancer Treatment: are treatments that may include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. If your cancer is particularly sensitive to radiation therapy or chemotherapy, you may receive one of those therapies as your primary treatment. Adjuvant treatment.
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Recent clinical successes in cancer genome-inspired personalized medicine have been a major breakthrough in drug discovery. However, 98% of the patients have an incomplete therapeutic respons...
DATE: February 27, 2019TIME: 8:00am PST Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can form any tissue or cell in the body, and are the ideal starting material to manufacture...
Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a biophysical method that sensitively measures real-time conformational change of biomolecules attached to membranes. SHG has recently been applied to dete...
DATE: February 26, 2019TIME: 11:00am PST, 2:00pm EST Osteosarcoma is the most common type of primary bone cancer affecting adolescents and children attributed to...
Comparative oncology is the study of naturally-occurring cancers in pet animals (mainly dogs) to broaden and deepen our collective understanding of cancers in both companion species and human...
Prodrugs are harmless in their native state, as they are not targeted by human enzymes. But they can be converted into highly toxic compounds (the “drug”) by viral or bacterial en...
DATE: January 29. 2019TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm EST In healthy tissue, a reservoir of stem cells gives rise to non-stem cells while simul...
DATE: January 16th, 2019TIME: 9:00AM PDT, 12:00PM EDTDr. Kamat will present his clinical experience using molecular markers, in addition to the standard of care,to examine pat...
DATE: December 13 15,2018TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm EST Breast cancers are classified into three main subtypes according to their receptor status: estrogen receptor-positive...
DATE: December 012, 2018TIME: 08:00 PSTImmunotherapy is a powerful treatment that harnesses the body’s immune system in the fight against cancer. With optimized cell therapy,...
Second and third generations of PTH immunoassays currently available on the market demonstrate significant variability with up to 4.2 fold difference in measurements depending on the method u...