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Online databases display cancer cells' sensitivities to drugs

Personalized cancer care received another shot in the arm this week when researchers published free online databases outlining potential cancer vulnerabilities to various drugs. The databases were

Costly cancer treatment comes under fire

Despite a lack of evidence that proton-beam therapy actually is more effective than traditional therapy at treating prostate cancer, both hospitals and patients continue to long for the expensive

Hospital tests genomic tech to speed cancer treatment

The Greenville (S.C.) Hospital System's University Medical Center will be among the first to test Life Technologies' Ion Torrent system, a next-generation gene sequencer, according to a GHS

Telehealth enables virtual cancer board meetings

In yet another example of telehealth taking on a new frontier, the University of North Carolina's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center is using telehealth to widen the reach of its