Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Case of Medical Fraud?

A program, aired on the TV show '60 Minutes' February 12, 2012, reported on what could be one of the worst cases of medical research fraud in the United States. What will be the outcome? What needs to be learned from this? How can this be prevented from ever happening again? View the CBS News Interview by Scott Pelley, on the 60 minutes website, called "Deception at Duke" [14 min.].

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

NCCN Updates Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer

"NCCN announces new updates to the NCCN Guidelines for Colon and Rectal Cancers. The updates include recommendations to the pre-treatment work-up and use of anti-cancer agents in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer depending on the status of the tumor’s KRAS gene. The changes are based on recent studies demonstrating that the tumor KRAS gene status is highly predictive of outcome with certain therapies."

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