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Cancer Treatment
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.
JAN 31, 2019 | 7:30 AM
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...
JAN 29, 2019 | 9:00 AM
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...
JAN 16, 2019 | 9:00 AM
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...
DEC 13, 2018 | 9:00 AM
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...
DEC 12, 2018 | 8:00 AM
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,...
NOV 14, 2018 | 1:30 PM
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...
NOV 13, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: November 13, 2018TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm ESTExtracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-secreted nanoparticles that play a pivotal role in intercellular communic...
OCT 25, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: October 25, 2018TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT While the significance of the microbiome is unprecedented, a thorough study to dissect the role of individual popul...
OCT 23, 2018 | 10:00 AM
DATE: October 23, 2018TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT Next-generation genomic sequencing is transforming what is known about pediatric cancer and how we treat patients. But eve...
OCT 11, 2018 | 1:30 PM
As the most common female malignancy, breast cancer is the most likely reason that a woman will die of cancer around the world. Breast cancer mortality has dropped in the U.S. by 35% since 19...
OCT 11, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Although targeted therapies often elicit profound initial patient responses, these effects are transient due to residual disease leading to acquired resistance. How tumors transition between...
OCT 11, 2018 | 10:30 AM
Two projects looking at novel approaches to targeting inflammatory breast cancer will be presented. Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a unique, understudied, and most lethal subtype account...
OCT 11, 2018 | 7:30 AM
In the past two decades a small number of infrequently dividing cells have been proposed as the source of multi-drug resistance during cancer treatment. These cells identified by their expres...
OCT 10, 2018 | 10:30 AM
The microbiome signatures in the context of gynecologic cancers (endometrial and ovarian) and the potential for their clinical use will be discussed. The use of microfluidic technologies to i...
