After various delays, the new, more detailed ICD-10 coding takes effect in October. The ICD-10 coding is more detailed than is current coding in terms of ide...

“Patent think” continues to retrench and retrace after SCOTUS’ series of unanimous rulings that ended patents for discovery of laws of nature, and for most a...

The ongoing annual AACR meeting this week included some sort of encouraging (but far from final) news on using immunotherapy to counter mesothelioma and othe...

The ongoing annual AACR meeting this week included some fairly encouraging clinical trial news for treatment of pleural mesothelioma. One portion of the news...

Changes in the world of science mean that tort lawyers of today and tomorrow soon will see and learn far more about genomic mutations in tumors. Why? Because...

Nature Genetics includes a free, very useful article on copy number variations across cancers of all types. The review is based on a survey of genomes from t...

A June 13, 2014  paper by Dr. Joseph Testa and colleagues expands the ongoing investigation into the relationships among mesothelioma, asbestos fibers, pleur...

It’s a necessary but sobering annual rite of spring – ASCO members arrive in Chicago for the annual meeting of oncologists at McCormick Place. Numbers about ...

Evidence continues to accumulate regarding epigenetic changes and cancer. A May 30, 2014 article in ScienceDaily reports on a breast cancer study finding epi...

Yesterday’s post pointed out the new solid tumor mutation test offered by Foundation Medicine.  The molecular biology revolution also applies to blood cancer...

The diseases we collectively call cancer are both simple in concept (cell immortality leads to a tumor) and complex to treat (almost all tumors mutate throu...

A new paper by Bianco and Demers – available here at no charge – concludes that Canada is seeing notable increases in occupational cancer claiming. The clai...

A good weekend for news on progress against blood cancers. The news is coming out now because the weekend and first part of this week are the dates for the a...

Lives can hang in the balance when reports are written to summarize the results of medical studies. Sadly, some scientists do commit fraud, and others allow...

While mesothelioma continues to kill, researchers continue to look for ways to slow or manage the disease. This BBC article reports on one man’s ongoing effo...

The latest article in Amy Harmon’s continuing NYT series on cancer research is a wrenching article she titles: Enlisting the Dying for Clues to Save Others...