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Growing up in Knoxville, Tennessee, Neel Madhukar always assumed he would become a physician. That’s what he told his high school teachers, and he pursued a premed track as an undergraduate at Emory University. But that plan... Read more

A study by Jeffrey Port, M.D., and colleagues suggests people suffering from lung cancer are at a higher risk of suicide than those who struggle with other forms of the disease. Read more

Scott Tagawa, M.D., M.S., discusses treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Read more

Profile of the work of Kristy Richards, M.D., Ph.D., who splits her time between NYC and Ithaca. Read more

Allyson Ocean, M.D., comments on the results of a large-scale trial for a rare disease with no standard of care: gallbladder cancer. Read more

Manish Shah, M.D., and Heather Yeo, M.D., comment on research that suggests that cashews and other tree nuts might be as effective as some of oncology’s most effective treatments at keeping colon cancer from recurring after surgery. Read more

Stem cells preserve their identities after cell division by using a series of protein “bookmarks” on their genes, according to new research by Effie Apostolou, Ph.D. Read more

Ethel Cesarman and colleagues have identified a compound that inhibits the growth of a rare blood cancer found in people with HIV-AIDS as well as multiple myeloma. Read more

Richard R. Furman, M.D., discusses the use of prognostic markers in the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Read more