17 September 2013 A central tenant of the Hippocratic Oath is “Do No Harm” and a recent article brought to my attention how few clinical...

16 September 2013 I’m proud to announce that I’m taking part in the 2013-2014 Med Into Grad Initiative hosted by the UCSD School of...

10 September 2013 Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the 25th Usha Mahajani Symposium at the Salk Institute. This year’s theme was...

6 September 2013 Didactic cognitive bias education could be very useful for medical researchers (and would have saved me a lot of...

22 August 2013 As an oncologist, when I sit with patients to discuss starting a new chemotherapy regimen, their first questions are often...

(See ryongraf.com for more articles) 15 August 2013 Mini-Review Research Commentary The first drug that specifically targets the spread...

26 July 2013 Commentary The current culture surrounding clinical trials hinders our ability to learn from our failures. Currently...

15 July 2013 This October I will ride my bike from the ocean to the mountains and back to promote cancer research and healthier living. ...

12 July 2013 Today I’m writing in a slightly less formal style as I share a few thoughts floating through my head, dear reader. I have...

5 July 2013 More good news today. I just received notification that my second primary author paper (my first review article) has...

28 June 2013 Lately I’ve been reading up on circulating tumor cells: cells that are from the tumor(s) of a cancer patient that wind up in...

24 June 2013 I recently came across something I rarely see in the medical literature: a review systematically dismissing a popular...

5 June 2013 Within the span of one hour this morning I received news of not one, but two publications, including my first primary author...

15 May 2013 This past year I’ve intently followed developments in personalized medicine, especially cancer, as technological advances in...

22 April 2013 Today I came across a very interesting case-control study by Kumar et al. on the effects of metformin on the outcomes of...

7 April 2013 Good morning, dear readers. I was in lab sipping coffee and updating notebooks this calm Sunday morning when I stumbled...

2 April 2013 What happens when it’s impossible to tell where the cancer came from? This morning I attended a great discussion at a...

22 February 2013 A new generation of anti-caner therapies are truly marvels of science and engineering, with a hefty price tag. As...

21 February 2013 My Cancer for Dummies blog turned two years old. How time flies! Cancer for Dummies started as an experiment in science...

15 February 2013 Original Research Commentary It’s been anecdotally said that when it comes to fighting cancer, attitude affects outcome....