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September 14, 2026

[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1783612939292{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;border-top-width: 4px !important;border-right-width: 4px !important;border-bottom-width: 4px !important;border-left-width: 4px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #FFFFFF !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;border-radius: 20px !important;border-color: #002C76 !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1789403004217{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}"] What You'll Hear in This Episode: The personal story...

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August 30, 2022

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="52821" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text css=""]Immunotherapy has changed the landscape of cancer medicine. The good news of its recent success in treating rectal cancer marked a new milestone in cancer treatment. Rectal Cancers Are Gone After the Treatment A research paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine on...

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June 21, 2022

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="50831" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]There's a paradigm shift taking place in the world of cancer treatment. Experts are moving away from an organ-focused approach to treatment, like using radiation to treat the specific area affected by cancer. Instead, they're looking at genomic sequencing.  Genomics is the branch...

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October 2, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="28941" img_size="medium" add_caption="yes" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" link="/scientists/wei-zhang/"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text] “The essence of precision medicine, in particular precision oncology, is to make cancer management more precise based on genomic mapping and molecular characterization of the unique tumors for each patient,” says Dr. Wei Zhang. “The cancer management...

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September 26, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="28496" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Genomics, the branch of molecular biology concerned with the structure, function, evolution, and mapping of an individual’s genes, is already revolutionizing the way medicine treats cancer. Like many sciences, genomics has “niches;” single-cell genomics is a rapidly developing field, and current...

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July 25, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="27609" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]When Dr. Webster “Web” Cavenee first introduced the idea of genetic tumor suppressors in 1982, it took to the air like a lead balloon. “I got a lot of blank looks,” he recalls. “A lot of angry ones, too.” How times change....

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February 7, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="24084" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]  In 2017, genetic researchers in the United Kingdom introduced a powerful new mechanical tool in the growing field of genomics, which may guide the way to new cancer treatments. The high-tech genome sequencer, the Illumina NovaSeqTM 6000, was unveiled at...

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