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DIY Cancer Test: Cancer Scare Pushed Young Physicist to Design Her Own Breast Exam

February 03, 2014

A few years ago, Ileana Hancu, a young physicist at GE Global Research, left her lab for a routine physical exam and came back with troubling news: the doctor apparently felt a lump in Hancu’s breast. What followed was an odyssey through the achievements of modern medicine, from mammography, to ultrasound and near biopsy.

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Is Cancer Research and Treatment Moving From Evolution To Revolution?

Dr Len Lichtenfeld American Cancer Society
January 30, 2014
Is our evolution becoming a revolution? Am I in danger of becoming a victim of the same “hope and hype” that I derided as a young oncologist in the 1970s and ‘80s and is now the focus of criticism around recent glowing media reports touting the successes of cancer research and treatment?
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Cracking Cancer's Secret Code: Oncologist Searches for Breast Cancer’s Achilles’ Heel

June 26, 2013
Over the last decade, oncologist Jennifer Pietenpol has been trying to decode and kill a difficult-to-treat type of breast cancer. Known as triple-negative breast cancer, this form of the disease can be highly aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy.
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Everything Is Illuminated: New Method Aims to Light Up Pieces of the Cancer Puzzle

March 01, 2013

We’ve learned a lot about cancer, but far from enough. Doctors have gotten better at diagnosing the disease, but they still struggle to pick the right weapon for a patient to fight cancer’s aggressive behavior. “Cancer is very complicated and very different from patient to patient,” says Michael Gerdes, cancer researcher at GE Global Research (GRC) in New York. “We really have not done an adequate job matching patients to therapies. We get some patients but we miss a lot.”

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