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Ninety-five percent of patients with advanced cancer have an insufficient understanding of their prognosis and are ill-equipped to make informed end-of-life care decisions, according to a study by Holly Prigerson, Ph.D., and colleagues. Read more

Olivier Elemento, Ph.D., comments on a new set of guidelines released by the Association for Molecular Pathology. Read more

Harold Varmus, M.D., was named as co-chair of a new Life Sciences Advisory Council for the city of New York Read more

Two recent features highlighted the efforts of Allyson Ocean, M.D., to involve patients in their treatments for pancreatic cancer. Read more

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine have undertaken an ambitious $5 million project to create new model systems that accurately reflect the biology, genetics and tumor-host interactions of difficult-to-treat blood cancers. Read more

Infectious complication rates following prostate biopsies continue to increase, despite decreased use of the procedures, according to Jim Hu, M.D. Read more

A multidisciplinary team led by Ithaca member Mingming Wu has devised a method for measuring the force a breast cancer cell exerts on its fibrous surroundings. Read more

Marcin Imielinski, M.D., Ph.D., and Dan Avi Landau, M.D., Ph.D, are using genomics to better understand—and combat—tumors. Read more

Lipstick Angels, a non-profit that brings volunteer makeup artists into hospitals to treat them with facials, makeovers and massage treatments has started a program at NewYork-Presbyterian. Read more