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CBS' "Evening News " on Thursday examined technologies assisting cancer care providers in analyzing tumors, determining appropriate treatments and archiving information for future patients.
Supercomputers making approximately two trillion calculations per second analyze tumors, identify targeted therapies to address specific gene mutations and predict how certain prescription drugs will affect a specific form of cancer before the medication is given to the patient, according to CBS. In addition, blood samples processed by the computers can identify proteins involved in cancers. The information can be stored in data banks so that cancer patients with similar protein profiles can receive treatments that have proven successful in earlier patients, CBS reports. The National Cancer Institue is working to provide physicians nationwide with access to information gleaned from the technologies to inform their diagnosis and treatment decisions. The CBS segment includes comments from: * Dr. David Agus, research director of the Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; * Dr. Anna Barker, deputy director for advanced technologies and strategic partnerships at NCI; * Dr. Daniel Van Hoff, medical research leader at Scottsdale Healthcare's Translational Genomics Research Institute; and * Cancer patients who have received the treatments (Couric, "Evening News," CBS, 10/12). View the Video via iHealthbeat The complete transcript of the segment is available online. Expanded video of the interview with Barker about the use of bioinformatics is available. Expanded video of the interview with Agus is available. |
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