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Who Owns Your Cancer Risk Genes, You or the Company that Tests for them?

May 13, 2009 - 11:05 am

Today CNN.com published an article detailing a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, in partnership with Yeshiva University law school, arguing that patents for the human genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are unconstitutional.
Just to give some background, BRCA (BReast CAncer) 1 and 2 are genes that are associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, and [...]

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Stable Disease: Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full?

January 13, 2007 - 11:49 am

Over the past several years, oncologists have experienced an evolution in the way we think about stable disease, at least in the context of lung cancer. Historically, oncologists have graded our work by looking at response rates, or the percentage of patients with tumor shrinkage of 50% or more of their [...]

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