Biomarker Studies Could Realize Goal of More Effective and Personalized Cancer Medicine

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 10:00 in Health & Medicine

When President Richard Nixon launched the war on cancer in his January 1971 State of the Union, he called for "the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon." Yet nearly 40 years and $100 billion in federally funded cancer research later, it seems the lunar landing was a much less daunting task. [More]

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