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PHILADELPHA— For patients with advanced lung cancer, a non-invasive liquid biopsy may be a more effective and suitable alternative to the gold standard tissue biopsy to detect clinically relevant mutations and help guide their course of treatment, suggests a new study published this week in the journal Clinical Cancer Research …
Tag Archives: Perelman School of Medicine
September, 2016
August, 2016
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12 August
Two New Drugs Show Promise for Patients with Aggressive Breast Cancer
PHILADELPHIA – Patients with aggressive subtypes of locally-advanced breast cancer may have new treatment options on the horizon, according to two reports published in July in the New England Journal of Medicine. Results of two different investigational arms of a multi-drug phase II trial conducted in part by researchers at …
July, 2016
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29 July
Penn Study Verifies Human Gene Therapy in Model of Rare Metabolic Disorder
PHILADELPHIA — Researchers are closer to finding a better way to treat children with a rare metabolic disorder called MPS I. It is caused by a deficiency of the key enzyme IDUA needed to break down complex sugars in cells. MPS I eventually leads to the abnormal accumulation of sugar …
May, 2016
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9 May
Changes Needed to Increase Access to Colorectal Cancer Screening
PHILADELPHIA –– Colorectal cancer is the second highest cause of cancer death in the United States, expected to claim the lives of an estimated 49,190 people in 2016. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aimed to increase access to CRC screening by not holding patients responsible for all costs of the …