Quantifying the Harms of Overdiagnosis?
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...
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- Sep 14, 2013
Med Into Grad begins!
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...
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- Sep 10, 2013
The Future was Yesterday at the 25th Usha Mahajani Symposium on Cancer Genomics at the Salk Institut
10 September 2013 Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the 25th Usha Mahajani Symposium at the Salk Institute. This year’s theme was...
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- Sep 6, 2013
All the kids are above average…
6 September 2013 Didactic cognitive bias education could be very useful for medical researchers (and would have saved me a lot of...
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- Aug 21, 2013
How Big Data Could Mitigate Cancer Drug Side-Effects
22 August 2013 As an oncologist, when I sit with patients to discuss starting a new chemotherapy regimen, their first questions are often...
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- Aug 15, 2013
The first anti-metastatic drug for young women?
(See ryongraf.com for more articles) 15 August 2013 Mini-Review Research Commentary The first drug that specifically targets the spread...
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- Jul 26, 2013
Taking a Big Data approach to clinical trials in cancer
26 July 2013 Commentary The current culture surrounding clinical trials hinders our ability to learn from our failures. Currently...
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- Jul 15, 2013
Pedal the Cause
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. ...
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- Jul 12, 2013
Survivorship Bias
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...
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- Jul 5, 2013
Another manuscript accepted!
5 July 2013 More good news today. I just received notification that my second primary author paper (my first review article) has...
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- Jun 28, 2013
Circulating Tumor Cells
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...
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- Jun 24, 2013
Acupuncture: Theatrical Placebo?
24 June 2013 I recently came across something I rarely see in the medical literature: a review systematically dismissing a popular...
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- Jun 5, 2013
Two publications in one week!
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...
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- May 15, 2013
Why Gene Patents Matter for Personalized Medicine
15 May 2013 This past year I’ve intently followed developments in personalized medicine, especially cancer, as technological advances in...
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- Apr 22, 2013
An anti-diabetic drug to fight cancer? Metformin use associated with greater survival in Ovarian Ca
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...
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- Apr 7, 2013
Enlightenment From Suffering? Walking In The Shadow of Cancer
7 April 2013 Good morning, dear readers. I was in lab sipping coffee and updating notebooks this calm Sunday morning when I stumbled...
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- Apr 2, 2013
The future: will tumor genomic profiling make current diagnosis obsolete?
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...
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- Feb 22, 2013
Crippling disease or crippling debt?
22 February 2013 A new generation of anti-caner therapies are truly marvels of science and engineering, with a hefty price tag. As...
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- Feb 21, 2013
Cancer for Dummies is two years old!
21 February 2013 My Cancer for Dummies blog turned two years old. How time flies! Cancer for Dummies started as an experiment in science...
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- Feb 15, 2013
The mind DOES matter: psychology affects cancer patient outcomes
15 February 2013 Original Research Commentary It’s been anecdotally said that when it comes to fighting cancer, attitude affects outcome....
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