by Elsevier Validation of virus detection by the tumor profiling assay and novel virus associations. A: Receiver operator characteristics (ROC) curve showing performance of virus detection compared to isothermal amplification method. B: Forest plot showing enrichment of HHV6 in neuroblastoma, HHV7 in esophagogastric cancer, and HPV42 in non-melanoma skin cancer. Results are shown as an...
by University of California, San Francisco A microscope image of brain cancer cells, a glioma tumor type known as anaplastic astrocytoma. Credit: Wikimedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Patients diagnosed with a type of brain tumor survived for longer when they were treated aggressively with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. But far from suggesting that more treatment always...
by St. Michael’s Hospital A decision aid developed to support patients undergoing genomic sequencing can reduce the amount of time patients spend speaking with overburdened genetic counselors while helping them were more knowledgeable about the benefits of sequencing, suggests a study from St. Michael’s Hospital. Published in Genetics in Medicine, the official journal of the American...
