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....

8 February 2013 Ok ok, So Jared Diamond did not produce a book about cancer (though I think it would most certainly be interesting). But...

5 February 2013 I’ve been writing often on the topic of tumor heterogeneity as of late, and today I became curious about the level of...

28 January 2013 It is widely accepted (appreciated?) that tumors are tantalizingly heterogeneous; they are not just a ball of cancer...