A recent report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Improving Diagnosis in Healthcare, outlines findings on the state of diagnostic error in our healthcare system. A follow-up to the 2000 landmark study, To Err [...]
Dr. Jason Sicklick In a recently published study, Jason Sicklick, MD, surgical oncologist at University of California, San Diego Health System, and his team of researchers published their findings on the epidemiology of GIST.His [...]
By Drs. Sebastian Bauer, West German Cancer Center, University of Essen, Germany and Jonathan Fletcher, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, LRG Research Team Researchers talk plainly about microGISTs, how this cancer develops and what all [...]
January 6th, 2011 - By Jerry Call, LRG Science CoordinatorThe first ever clinical trial specifically for the PDGFRA D842V mutation has been announced by Arog pharmaceuticals. The phase II trial is scheduled to open in [...]
UPDATE - January 6th, 2011 by Jerry Call, LRG Science Coordinator The first ever clinical trial specifically for the PDGFRA D842V mutation has been announced by Arog pharmaceuticals. The phase II trial is scheduled [...]
Dr. Chris CorlessKnight Cancer InstitutePortland, Oregon For a patient suddenly faced with a cancer diagnosis, the process by which the diagnosis was made may seem of little interest. It is only the result [...]
