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Cancer And Clinical Trials: The Role Of Big Data In Personalizing The Health Experience

Despite considerable progress in prevention and treatment, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States. Even with the $50 billion pharmaceutical companies spend on research and development every year, any given cancer drug is ineffective in 75% of the patients receiving it. [...] Read More »

Cancer research gets a boost from EHR systems

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | April 1, 2013

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is harnessing the power of EHRs and data analytics by creating a “learning health system” called CancerLinQ, designed to aggregate information on treatments from disparate clinics and provide tailored treatments based on the outcomes of thousands of other patients.  Read More »

CDISC and TransCelerate Announce New Standard for Breast Cancer to Support Data Sharing for Oncology Research

Press Release | CDISC, TransCelerate BioPharma, Inc. | May 18, 2016

The need to rapidly and efficiently share new data in cancer research was recently, and powerfully, highlighted by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as part of the Cancer Moonshot initiative. The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and TransCelerate BioPharma, Inc. (“TransCelerate”) announce today the open availability of a new CDISC Therapeutic Area (TA) Standard for Breast Cancer. The CDISC global TA standards can streamline the way clinical research is conducted so that data can be readily shared among clinicians, researchers and regulators around the world, thus leading to more rapid and “smarter” research...

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CEO Roundtable On Cancer Launches The Project Data Sphere Initiative, A New Data Sharing And Analytic Platform For Cancer Patient Benefit

Press Release | CEO Roundtable on Cancer , SAS, Sage Bionetworks | April 8, 2014

Project Data Sphere, LLC (PDS), an independent not-for-profit initiative of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer’s Life Sciences Consortium (LSC), announced today the launch of a new data sharing platform (www.ProjectDataSphere.org), with the goal of advancing research to improve the lives of cancer patients and their families around the world...

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Charity Alliance Launches Fund To Make Charitably Funded Research Open Access

Press Release | Charity Open Access Fund | September 3, 2014

An alliance of leading UK medical research charities is today launching a new fund to help make charitably funded research freely available as soon as it is published.  Arthritis Research UK, Breast Cancer Campaign, the British Heart Foundation (BHF), Cancer Research UK, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, and the Wellcome Trust have joined together to create the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)...

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Chemist's Crusade For Open-Source Cancer Research

Robert McMillan | WIred UK | September 26, 2014

Isaac Yonemoto is a chemist, but he's been writing software code since he was a kid...[He's] using open source software techniques to kickstart the world of cancer research...

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Four Things We Can Do Now to Unlock the Cure for Cancer

As a community we are capable of working together to achieve greater things. If we marshal our resources to work together, I believe we can unlock the cure for cancer. This is a rare opportunity. We need to change the models and shift our culture towards collaboration. We can’t just tweak around the edges — patients and their families can’t afford to wait. An alternative system, where all publicly-funded research and data are required to be shared would allow authors to unlock their content and data for re-use with a global audience, and co-operate towards new discoveries and analysis.

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Genetic Link to Skin Cancer Found in Medical Records

Susan Young | MIT Technology Review | November 24, 2013

Researchers uncover new ties between genetics and skin cancer by mining patients’ medical records. Read More »

Genomes Released of NCI-60 Cancer Cell Lines

Allison Proffitt | Bio IT World | July 17, 2013

July 17, 2013 | On Monday, researchers released the largest database of cancer-related genetic variations—the genomes of the 60 cancer cell lines represented by the NCI-60 list. The project was published online in Cancer Research. Read More »

How Crowdfunding And Open Source Research Will Fight Cancer

Jess Bolluyt | Tech Cheat Sheet | October 4, 2014

...A researcher named Isaac Yonemoto is applying some of the concepts of open source software initiatives to cancer research. Yonemoto is undertaking Project Marilyn, a campaign to develop a patent-free anticancer drug...

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Is Big Data Already Outpacing Health IT?

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | February 11, 2014

Call it super-mega big data. Taking just one example, cancer research, highlights how far the healthcare industry has yet to go to actually make sense from the mountains of information that already exist. Read More »

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Deploys an Open Source Innovative and Personalized Digital Landscape

Press Release | Memorial Sloan Kettering | May 5, 2015

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) introduced a new, consumer-friendly web presence for www.mskcc.org (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and www.sloankettering.edu (Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), featuring an innovative platform and on-demand navigation for patients, caregivers, researchers, healthcare professionals, and graduate students, among other core audiences. Memorial Sloan Kettering is the first organization in the United States to build an enterprise-grade platform with Drupal 8, a leading open-source web-content-management system, and MSK is also one of the first tristate-area healthcare providers to create and host a fully responsive mobile-enabled site.

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Memorial Sloan Kettering-Early Adopter of Drupal 8 Open Source CMS

At Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK), the world's oldest and largest private cancer center, our researchers and clinicians have pushed boundaries to generate new knowledge in patient care and cancer research for more than 130 years. This culture of innovation allows our scientists to continually develop new methods for treatment and work tirelessly to discover more effective strategies to prevent, control, and ultimately cure cancer...We chose to build with Drupal 8 for many reasons—which we explained at DrupalCon LA and I elaborated on the Phase2 blog—but when we set out, there was no guarantee that the platform would deliver on our goals. Drupal 8 was far from an official launch. But as with all bold pursuits at MSK, a little bit of uncertainty is a given. This mix of careful consideration, persistence, and unanswered questions is what drives progress, whether in the lab or on the web...

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More Money Won’t Win The War On Cancer

Jacoba Urist | The Atlantic | August 28, 2013

A broken grant structure, turf wars, and an exodus of scientists for other professions are bigger barriers to progress than a lack of funding. Read More »

NHS Cancer Diagnostic Pathology Thriving In Open Source

Adrian Bridgwater | Open Source Insider | June 4, 2013

Many cancer laboratories in the UK are using antiquated reporting software. Read More »