Kirk T. Hartley
Somatic Signature Mutations - Another Major Leap in Genomics, and Mass Tort Disease Litigation
This week brought 4 major new Nature papers on genomics. Over the next 20 years, the findings they report, will: 1) materially impact...
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Kirk Hartley
- Mar 19, 2019
- 4 min
Cancer Research, a Holy Grail, and The Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World Is Coming to the Chi
Hopefully this incredible machine will help researchers against cancer fulfill Jeff Huber’s call to “find a better way” to take on...
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Kirk Hartley
- Feb 4, 2016
- 5 min
World Cancer Day – What Are Hopes and Expectations?
“Cancer” is a beast that kills 560,000 Americans per year, and millions more around the globe. “Cancer” akes many forms, most of which...
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 17, 2015
- 1 min
ICD-10 Coding for Cancers; Changes Ahead, New Knowledge Will Follow
After various delays, the new, more detailed ICD-10 coding takes effect in October. The ICD-10 coding is more detailed than is current...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jul 23, 2015
- 1 min
“Patent Think” Retreats on Discovery of Nature, and Use of Math
“Patent think” continues to retrench and retrace after SCOTUS’ series of unanimous rulings that ended patents for discovery of laws of...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 22, 2015
- 3 min
Some Sort of Encouraging News Regarding Immunotherapy to Treat Mesothelioma and Other Awful Tumors
The ongoing annual AACR meeting this week included some sort of encouraging (but far from final) news on using immunotherapy to counter...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 20, 2015
- 4 min
Anti-PD-1 Therapy Shows Some Promise for Treating Pleural Mesothelioma
The ongoing annual AACR meeting this week included some fairly encouraging clinical trial news for treatment of pleural mesothelioma. One...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 19, 2015
- 2 min
Cancer Research and Clinical Trials Can Produce Great Results – the Wendy Harpham Example
Wendy Harpham, MD, leads Wendy’s Eagles in a 2015 fundraising walk for lymphoma research. Wendy is alive and thriving 23+ years after...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 9, 2014
- 4 min
Lawyers on All Sides Soon Will See More and More Reports on Tumor Mutations
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...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jul 30, 2014
- 1 min
Patterns of Copy Number Variations Across All Types of Cancer
Nature Genetics includes a free, very useful article on copy number variations across cancers of all types. The review is based on a...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 24, 2014
- 2 min
An Important New Paper on Mesotheliomas: “Germline Mutation of Bap1 Accelerates Development of
A June 13, 2014 paper by Dr. Joseph Testa and colleagues expands the ongoing investigation into the relationships among mesothelioma,...
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Kirk Hartley
- May 30, 2014
- 2 min
ASCO Arrives in Chicago – The Scale of Cancer
It’s a necessary but sobering annual rite of spring – ASCO members arrive in Chicago for the annual meeting of oncologists at McCormick...
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Kirk Hartley
- May 30, 2014
- 1 min
More Evidence Regarding Epigenetics and Cancer
Evidence continues to accumulate regarding epigenetic changes and cancer. A May 30, 2014 article in ScienceDaily reports on a breast...
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Kirk Hartley
- May 13, 2014
- 2 min
Mutation Analysis for Blood and Lymph Cancers – The Foundation Medicine Heme Test
Yesterday’s post pointed out the new solid tumor mutation test offered by Foundation Medicine. The molecular biology revolution also...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 4, 2013
- 1 min
“A Retrospective on the War on Cancer”
The diseases we collectively call cancer are both simple in concept (cell immortality leads to a tumor) and complex to treat (almost all...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 1, 2013
- 4 min
Big 10 Schools Create a Cancer Research Consortium
Football season brings us all back in touch with alma maters. For Big 10 alums, it’s good to see most of the Big 10 school also trying to...
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 19, 2013
- 2 min
Canada Seeing Increases in Occupational Cancer Claiming
A new paper by Bianco and Demers – available here at no charge – concludes that Canada is seeing notable increases in occupational...
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Kirk Hartley
- Dec 10, 2012
- 4 min
More Positive News on Treating Blood Cancers Through the Immune System Instead of Chemotherapies
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...
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Kirk Hartley
- Mar 14, 2011
- 3 min
Sponsored Research and Disclosure of Funding Sources – The Conversation Moves to the Higher L
Lives can hang in the balance when reports are written to summarize the results of medical studies. Sadly, some scientists do commit...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jan 8, 2011
- 1 min
Mesothelioma – Will the JBIR Molecule Help Slow Tumours ?
While mesothelioma continues to kill, researchers continue to look for ways to slow or manage the disease. This BBC article reports on...
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