Noelle Frey, an assistant professor of Medicine and an oncologist at Penn's Abramson's Cancer Center, has recently demonstrated a new T-cell engineering technique on treating patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). This gene transfer technique is able to train patient’s own T cells to target and kill the cancerous B…...
“United Dream, Shared Success” 2013 Chinese Clinical Oncology Advances Awards Announced
From China Medical Tribune In January 2014, "2013 Chinese Clinical Oncology Advances Awards " organized by China Medical Tribune (CMT) and the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) has finalized the top researches from China (a number of studies have tied votes). The achievements of Chinese clinical and basic oncology…...
2012 AFCR-USCACA Scholar Excellence Award
On September 7, 2012, the Asian Fund for Cancer Research and the US Chinese Anti-Cancer Association(USCACA) jointly awarded five outstanding young Chinese cancer researchers the 2012 AFCR-USCACA Scholar Excellence Award. Chinese researchers and physicians are being increasingly recognized in making significant contributions to advance biomedical researches including cancer research in China and the…...
Gender and Ethnicity Influence the Risk of Dying from Lung Cancer in Non-Smokers
Men who have never smoked are more likely to die from lung cancer than women, as are Asians who live in Asia compared with individuals of European decent. An international team of investigators drew these conclusions from an analysis of 13 prospective studies that involved 63,000 individuals for tracking lung…...
