But vaccines, like against HPV, if children can get an immunization. 'That's amazing - to wipe out cervical cancer' #CancerFilm
9:57pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Cancer clusters - numbers are small, some potential point source may have disappeared. But an old suspect again: viruses #CancerFilm
9:55pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Epidemiologists struggle to understand 'the behavior of cancers' - why sometimes like infectious disease; other times geography #CancerFilm
9:54pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Causative mutations likely due to copying errors; but what are the hidden triggers of those 40%? So much speculation. #CancerFilm
9:51pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
If trends continue w/obesity epidemic - 'soon we'll have to face square on'. But other causes - some 40% still unknown #CancerFilm
9:50pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Another preventable epidemic - obesity 'clearly higher risk of colon, breast and other cancers' #CancerFilm
9:49pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Jan 1971 - the last ad on TV; timeline of bans (airplanes, indoor, bars, workplaces). Decline by 1/2; lung ca trends down too #CancerFilm
9:48pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
A letter to FCC: equal time to anti-smoking along with cigarette ads in late 1960's 'Your total consumption: 1/2 Million' #CancerFilm
9:47pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
In 1964 to 67: smoking increased after the SG's warning. Idea - turning TV ads against cigarette mfr's #CancerFilm
9:45pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Stopping smoking - 'vastly more effect on cancer mortality than what I can do in my lifetime (as a cancer researcher)' #CancerFilm
9:44pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Harold Varmus (outgoing head of NCI) in 2010 - a call for a shift, to cancer prevention. 'We overlook it b/c it isn't exciting' #CancerFilm
9:43pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
"Everyone has a different idea of what a good death looks like." "Healing is sometimes helping people have a good death." (tears)#CancerFilm
9:42pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
"I want you to be stronger so you can go home. And then decide on more treatment." (then hugs the patient) #CancerFilm
'You have to make a choice to have more treatment, or do you want to stop?' Patient weeps. "I see the time coming..." #CancerFilm
9:40pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Palliative care is new. Started by Cicely Saunders ('67). Some treat it as a war; others use language of negotiation. #CancerFilm
9:39pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Patient says: "Oh this really sucks." The understatement of the entire film, being informed of a poor prognosis. :( #CancerFilm
9:36pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
"Why should we as physicians have all the information about the patient? Shouldn't they have it as well?" #CancerFilm
9:34pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
"I know many of my patients with Stage IV disease will die." #CancerFilm
9:32pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
RT @HopkinsMedicine: .@NIHDirector: We are 25% below where we were 10 years ago in #cancer funding. We've got to figure out how to turn it …
"The backbone of what we do is chemotherapy"; we're better in targeting. Over 2/3'rds with cancer will live >5y, many longer #CancerFilm
9:31pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
With so few targeted therapies, cancer care has remained 'much the same for the past 20y' #CancerFilm
9:30pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Collins: "We need to figure out how to turn that around." The difficult calculation: what to pay for how many months of life?!? #CancerFilm
9:29pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
"We need more efficient basic research" "And yet funding for the most basic has not been so tight since 1971" #CancerFilm
Most acute problem in the US, where they set the prices. Other countries - people forgo it. Developing world - not available #CancerFilm
9:28pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
"Getting cancer is one of the worst financial things that can happen to you in the United States" #CancerFilm
9:27pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
RT @DrMiguelPerales: Cancer costs rising faster than overall healthcare costs #CancerFilm http://t.co/wuiRDgfRgz
9:26pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
'$700/mo co-pay is rent', just to keep you alive. #CancerFilm
9:25pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Impact of high cost of cancer care: 'Normal jobs w/awesome insurance, but still major bills, month after month.' #CancerFilm
Due to huge costs, the therapies are hugely expensive. From $5K/y at start. In '12: $100K+/year #CancerFilm
9:24pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Last decade - only 4 targeted therapies per year. And each - only extending for a few months. :( #CancerFilm
9:23pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
"Each cancer is a moving target." Klausner NCI. Mr. Gomez - only 6mos LDK stopped working. Tried second med., passed away. #CancerFilm
The problem: resistance. "Cancer cells are constantly mutating, evolving over time." "It transforms the idea of treatment" #CancerFilm
9:21pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Seeing now one of the first lung ca patients who tried LDK. 'Miraculous for some of our patients' Blotches disappear #CancerFilm
9:20pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
RT @Aiims1742: #CancerFilm Timeline of the human #genome project #endcancer April 25th = DNA Day (Completion date for HGP) http://t.co/RKU…
9:19pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Medicinal chemists have to make sure it fits the pocket perfectly, but bind to nothing else. '99.9% what you do fails' #CancerFilm
9:18pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
The landscape seen more clearly; but 'intimidating chaos'. Focus on ALK: after 7y, ID'd one compound LDK blocking growth signals #CancerFilm
9:17pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
"The cancer genome is exceedingly complex" (DePinto, MDAnderson) "It's clear we're dealing with the tip of the iceberg" #CancerFilm
9:15pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Vogelstein: "In many cases the brakes are just gone from the cell" (tumor suppressor genes) along with oncogenes (drivers) #CancerFilm
RT @theNCI: More information about the Cancer Genome Atlas: http://t.co/G9FC2FVQkT #CancerFilm
9:14pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Mukherjee - "Much more complex than just a few genes... in one cancer over 100 genes". #CancerFilm
Collins: "The most exciting was the first meetings, now the fog was blown away, to see the whole landscape" #CancerFilm
9:13pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
TCGA - "an incredible team science effort" (Gordon Mills, MD Anderson) #CancerFilm
9:12pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Varmus: "He created what we called a Vogel-gram; you can think of cancer as having a history" #CancerFilm
9:10pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
'One has to look through literally billions of bases in the cancer genome'. He ID'd several colon mutations #CancerFilm
9:09pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
Tonight starts with Bert Vogelstein at Hopkins - a true hero and creative thinker. #Cancerfilm
9:08pm April 1st 2015 via Twitter Web Client
RT @StevenNHart: @nanopore MinION error rate now ~15%. Does this mean @PacBio is the next 454 - aka an oversized paperweight? http://t.co/…
8:12pm April 1st 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @claritas4kids: #ACMGMtg YS orthogonal sequencing using both ion torrent and illumina sequencing, 100% ppv for orthogonally confirmed va…
8:10pm April 1st 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @GenomeAnalysis: First remote laboratory allows researchers to conduct real-time #analysis http://t.co/uMrNY5XK5J http://t.co/Qn3EhnDUyQ
8:05pm April 1st 2015 via Hootsuite
Google Easter Eggs on April Fools Day (16 of them) | ZDnet http://t.co/B9leZPzCU8
7:50pm April 1st 2015 via Hootsuite
Great update via GenomeWeb about JGI's areas of focus - sample prep, single-cell and DNA synthesis http://t.co/1aEPhJndE9
6:20pm April 1st 2015 via Hootsuite
