Slow but Deadly: Pancreatic Tumors’ Biology Offers Hope for Early Diagnosis
Researchers have made significant progress in understanding the biology of pancreatic tumors, suggesting that there may be ways of identifying the usually fatal cancer at a much earlier and more treatable stage. A principal finding is that pancreatic tumors are not aggressive cancers. To the contrary, they grow slowly, taking an average of 21 years […]
Unrealistic Optimism in Early-Phase Cancer Trials: Ethical Implications
When Optimism Is Unrealistic“But despite clearly understanding the purpose, and limits, of early-phase (Drug) trials, the patients were also blinded by what researchers called an unrealistic optimism, or an optimistic bias, when it came to applying that knowledge to their own particular situations. A majority of patients assumed that the experimental drugs would control their […]
Cancer Blood Test
New Push to Develop Cancer Blood Test – Researchers have announced plans to develop a blood test that can detect a cancer cell that has been shed from a tumor. A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving a step closer to being […]
