COVER FE ATURE
INNOVATIVE CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS AT
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Ongoing research continues to improve the standard of
patient oncolog y care, prolonging surviva l and enhancing
qua lity of life after a cancer diagnosis.
FE ATURES
ADVANCES IN LUNG CANCER CARE AT
PENN STATE CANCER INSTITUTE 08
Patrick Ma, MD, MSc, and his colleagues are elevating the
lung cancer care offered at Penn State Cancer Institute,
especia lly as low-dose CT scans help detect cancer earlier.
RADIATION ONCOLOGY AT PENN STATE HEALTH
ST. JOSEPH CANCER CENTER: BREAKTHROUGHS
IN LIVER CANCER TREATMENT 10
Liver-directed radiation therapies deliver high doses of
radiation to tumors while sparing hea lthy tissue.
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SPECIAL CLINICAL SECTION: NEUROLOGY
RESEARCH OFFERS NEW HOPE FOR PREDICTING
ALZHEIMER'S PROGRESSION 13
Biomarker monitoring may a llow for the development of
therapies to be applied in the nonclinica l stage of the disease.
NEW RESEARCH REVEALS METHODS TO
DIAGNOSE PARKINSON'S DISEASE IN ITS
EARLIEST STAGES 14
New tests, including skin cell samples and optica l coherence
tomography, may be able to detect the disease before symptom
onset, a llowing researchers to develop disease-modifying
therapies while the disease is in its early stages.
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