> How Portland could be key to breakthroughs in cancer research | The Story | Sept. 12, 2024
How Portland could be key to breakthroughs in cancer research | The Story | Sept. 12, 2024
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Sept. 12 on The Story: In the early 1990s, Dr. Brian Druker was a medical researcher recruited by OHSU to head a lab focused on targeted therapies for cancers. His discovery of a treatment for a specific type of leukemia was developed into the drug Gleevec, an important development in targeted cancer treatment. Now he heads OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute, a top research center for multiple advancements in cancer treatments. We spoke to Druker to find out what's on the horizon in this vital field, and found out how an aspect of the product that Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos fraudulently marketed, blood tests for cancer, may soon be a reality that will revolutionize cancer detection.
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