A real-time, in vivo imaging platform guides surgeons during cancer surgery. This breakthrough technology illuminates cancer cells and other diseased tissues at the molecular level, allowing surgeons to take action and better […]
INTERVIEW: Travera CEO Clifford Reid PhD
Clifford Reid is the founding CEO of Travera. Previously, Dr. Reid was the founding Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Complete Genomics (NASDAQ:GNOM), a leading developer of whole human genome DNA […]
Cancer Diagnostic Breakthrough Invented at MIT
Travera’s new technology can predict how patients will respond to hundreds of different drugs or drug combinations before the patients even take the drugs. Their new measurement tool, the Suspended Microchannel Resonator […]
Drug Shows Promise in Slowing Progression of Smoldering Myeloma to Cancer
June 7, 2019, by NCI Staff Smoldering myeloma is a slow-growing type of multiple myeloma, a form of cancer in which abnormal plasma cells (purple) make too much of a single type […]
New Therapies Aim to Lessen Side Effects in Children
JUNE 4, 2019 NFCR WRITER DAVID PERRY BLOG Ask any parent about their child fighting cancer and words like “nightmare” and “helpless” will almost certainly be part of the conversation. Within pediatric cancer medicine, the […]
Annual Report to the Nation: Overall Cancer Mortality Continues to Decline; Special Section on Adults ages 20 to 49 shows higher cancer incidence and mortality for women than men
The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that, for all cancer sites combined, cancer death rates continued to decline in men, women, and children in the […]
Soligenix and the Creation of Rare Cancer Drugs
Soligenix is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is currently an unmet medical need. Soligenix is a biotherapeutic business segment dedicated to […]
Study shows incidence rates of aggressive subtypes of uterine cancer rising
New findings from a study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, show that U.S. incidence rates for aggressive subtypes of uterine cancer rose […]