Monday, January 16, 2012

HEALTH - Cancer Rates in Children and Personalized Treatments

"Kids and Cancer: Why Pediatric Cancer Cure Rates Have Improved So Much" (Part-1) PBS Newshour 1/12/2012

Excerpt

JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Now to the first of a two-part report about how patients and their doctors are faring in their efforts to cure or manage different cancers.

It's been four decades since President Nixon signed a law that would change the way cancer research was funded, in an effort to develop better treatments.

Tonight, NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looks at what's happening in the battle against pediatric cancer.



"Cancer Treatment: Are Personalized Molecular Profiles in Our Future?" (Part-2) PBS Newshour 1/13/2012

Excerpt

JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Now: the second in our two-part series on changes in treating cancer.

Last night, NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looked at the effects on childhood cancers. Tonight, she examines how researchers are tailoring individual treatments to cure or manage the disease in adults by attacking the genetic underpinnings.

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