US News and World Report's Bernadine Healy imagines how cancer will be treated in 2040 and discusses how close we are today to making cancer a chronic disease whose treatment is tailored to the patient. Healy seems hopeful that the Cancer Genome Atlas project will help elucidate the genetic causes of cancer. Also on the cancer front, David Dooling blogs about a talk given by Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Chris Sander. Sander studies cancer at different biological levels, from SNPs to signaling pathways, and how drugs affect those pathways. "The question still remains however: pathways-level analysis will cover 60-80% of people with a specific sub-type of cancer. What about the other 20-40% whose mutations don’t fall into those pathways?" Dooling asks.
Imagining the Future
Oct 27, 2008
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