Canadian Government Begins Expanding Cancer Drug Access

The Ontario government said Monday it plans to expand access to certain cancer medications for patients who may benefit from the drugs but who do not meet strict clinical guidelines for their use.

This ruling is part of a broader movement to begin letting patients have access to medications that were not tested for their specific pathology. In this example, no trials were conducted on patients with tumors smaller than 1cm.

Stacey Kramer on Overcoming Trauma (TED)

The future of Cancer Research?

Well, it looks like it's TED talk season again so we might as well start posting interesting speakers. Here we have a scientist discussing a systems biology approach to the future of cancer research.