Articles by Angus Chen
When the Food and Drug Administration approved a new pancreatic cancer drug called Rasonque last month, researchers and patient advocates celebrated. Kelsey Solano felt a pit in her stomach.Β
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Leanna Stokes had gotten into the habit of asking her oncologist what might be next for her treatment, and for good reason. Stokes, a 36-year-old gymnastics manager from New Rochelle, New York, had rοΏ½...
When Ben Sasse, a former U.S. senator (R-Neb.), learned he had metastatic pancreatic cancer, he quickly chose action over comfort. Whatever he could do to save his life, for as long as he could, he wοΏ½...
For some advanced cancers, sequencing the tumor genome should be one of the first steps patients and physicians take. But a new study finds that many patients never receive genomic testing and so nevοΏ½...
Oncologists have been moving away from the notoriously unpopular neutropenic diet. It requires nearly all food to be cooked to high temperatures or, as some have described it, boiled to death Β to red...
BOSTON The offices at John Quackenbushs lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health were once full of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and interns. Young scientists here worked on soοΏ½...
