Research Update Corner
Contributed by Mila McCurrach
Research Update Corner is a feature of The Lustgarten Foundation's semi-annual print newsletter, Progress & Promise.
Mila McCurrach is the Foundation's Research Program Manager. Mila began her career at the prestigious laboratories at MIT and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and has conducted post-graduate and graduate studies at Harvard and MIT.
Fall 2010
Historically, cancers have been understood and treated based on their physical attributes: what we can “see” about them, including where they started, and what they look like under a microscope and through imaging (CT, MRI, etc.). The TNM staging system, introduced more than fifty years ago, remains the gold standard for classifying tumors...Today, individuals diagnosed with cancer are evaluated for TNM, and these descriptions are combined to determine a disease stage...Although TNM staging and histology remain important to determining therapeutic intervention, new factors such as biomarkers, are playing an increasing role in cancer care.
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Spring 2010
From global view to bird’s eye view, this installment of Research Update Corner reports on developments in pancreatic cancer research. As you will read, the momentum of pancreatic cancer genomics has caught an international wave on the heels of the landmark Pancreatic Cancer Genome Project, supported in part by The Lustgarten Foundation. I am also pleased to report on the near completion of the Foundation’s $1.25 million Early Detection Biomarker Initiative and tell you about additional activities that are forging progress in the fight.
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Fall 2009
Much has been going on in the pancreatic cancer scientific community, and as The Foundation’s Research Program Manager, I am delighted to bring you this inaugural installment of Research Update Corner. I hope you will find the column to be a source of information and inspiration in the fight against pancreatic cancer.
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