Hot topics in cancer research from the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research

Cancer treatment becomes more and more personal.

Considering “targeted therapeutics” in the face of intra-patient heterogeneity. 

Advances in genomics and cancer biology will alter the design of human cancer studies.

By scrutinizing gene expression profiles instead of individual oncogenes, Todd Golub launched a powerful platform for diagnosing, classifying, and treating cancer.

Tumor cells can exhibit different behaviors despite being genetically indistinguishable.

While exploring the genetics of a rare type of tumor, Stephen Baylin discovered an epigenetic modification that occurs in most every cancer—a finding he’s helping bring to the clinic.