A Wave of New Cancer Treatments Challenges Community Oncologists to Keep Up

Image credit: Fatinha Ramos. Article by Claudia Wallis. Scientific American April 2022 Issue

New treatments for cancer are being developed at a breathtaking pace. Novel drugs, immunotherapies that enhance the body’s ability to attack tumors, and other innovations have been approved at a rate of three or four a month. “Ten years ago it was 10 a year; today the pace is one a week,” marvels oncologist Tufia Haddad, a breast cancer specialist at the Mayo Clinic. These therapies […]

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