Angus Chen

Articles by Angus Chen

The race to catch KRAS, pancreatic cancer’s ‘greasy ball,’ and create the most promising drug in decades - statnews.com

Business April 20, 2026

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 r�...

For Ben Sasse, Revolution Medicines’ pancreatic cancer trial felt like his best, only option - statnews.com

Business April 15, 2026

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 w�...

Many cancer patients don’t get genomic tests to guide treatment, study finds - statnews.com

Health April 9, 2026

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 nev�...

Study revives debate about unpopular diet for cancer patients - statnews.com

Health December 23, 2025

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  to red...

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent - statnews.com

Health December 6, 2025

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 so�...