Outdated assessment of treatment response makes good cancer drugs look bad

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 14:31 in Health & Medicine

Tumor shrinkage is not the only measure of a successful anti-cancer therapy. A University of Colorado Cancer Center article published in the journal Frontiers in Oncologydescribes a promising alternative: metabolic imaging. Tumors rush their metabolism to grow and proliferate. By recognizing a drug’s ability to stop this energy overuse, doctors may be able to determine […]

Read the whole article on Science Blog

More from Science Blog

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net