Clinical Pathology

I don’t really know when or where it started. You can track where it has been propagated. A quick Google search lead me to an article published in 2008 entitled “The Future Laboratory Professional: Health Care’s Secret Weapon”. Since...

“This is good news in the fight against cancer. With the launch of this new national resource, anyone can freely access raw genomic and clinical data for 12,000 patients - with more records to follow. Increasing the pool of researchers who...

Better quantification of cancer-immune interactions can reveal which disease mechanisms are in play, and help you discover and validate biomarkers that can lead to more accurate subpopulation stratification methodologies of patients for...

Below blog reprinted with permission from DoveMed. As a personal aside, my generation danced at junior high and high school dances to songs like "Little Red Corvette" and "Purple Rain". While perhaps we thought performers like Prince and...

Exciting news today from FDA with news of approval of first liquid biopsy test for use in non-small cell lung cancer.  The cobas EGFR test is already approved for use in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue. This new use is intended...

Curious to see how 30,000 practicing oncologists react to this and what the level of interest will be in what the VP has to say.  My general sense over these past few months among oncologists is a fair amount of skepticism to the initiative...