Cancer Prevention, Screening, and the Reality of Cancer

Why did a paper highlighting the relevance of organ-specific rate of stem cell division to the risk for the ...

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Implementation Science in Oncology: We Have So Much to Learn!

A number of disturbing, yet provocative, reports strongly support the idea that the clinical research community ...

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The Clinical Utility of Pragmatic Randomized Trials

The introduction of the pragmatic randomized trial, which uses basic trial design to directly address ...

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Biosimilars in Oncology: Meaningful Bending of the Cost Curve or an Opportunity Lost?

Perhaps the single most relevant issue related to the pending introduction of biosimilars into clinical practice is ...

AUGUST 22, 2017

Considering Cost When ‘Cure’ Is an Objectively Realistic Possibility

Should cost be viewed differently if the goal of short-term therapy is to potentially produce a state of ...

JULY 11, 2017

A Disquieting Side of Biomedical Research: Potential Implications for Oncology

Watchful observers of laboratory and clinically oriented scientific investigation are taking notice of the ...

JUNE 13, 2017

In Ovarian Ca, Mixed Results for Taxane Maintenance

National Harbor, Md.—A long-term study designed to provide the definitive answer regarding taxane maintenance ...

MAY 18, 2017

Are We There Yet? Basing Payment on the Clinical Activity of a Novel Antineoplastic

Have we as a society have finally arrived closer to the point where we will no longer tolerate the irrational cost ...

MARCH 29, 2017

Are We Appropriately Monitoring Antineoplastic Drug Toxicity in the ‘Real World’?

The most striking difference between antineoplastic and other pharmaceutical agents is the toxicity profile that is ...

MARCH 8, 2017

‘Early’ Detection of Cancer: Justification and Cost

The words “your cancer has recurred/progressed” and “you have cancer” are among the most ...

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Flowers for Algernon and CRISPR Technology: Arguing an Unsettling Connection

In the 1960s, in the science fiction short story and subsequent novel Flowers for Algernon, later made into ...

JANUARY 19, 2017

E-Cigarettes: A Major Public Health Controversy Requiring Resolution

It is difficult to think of a health-related issue that has generated more intense debate within the medical and ...

JANUARY 6, 2017