Oncology

Many hospitals sequence patients’ tumor genomes to personalize their treatment – but without sequencing normal tissue, this can harm rather than heal.

Scent-trained dogs sniff out cancer. Whatever next?

Overcoming limitations of an established standard by unlocking molecular biomarkers in body fluids

Targeted biopsies for prostate cancer could increase detection of high risk disease and help to prevent over-diagnosis

Smartphone accessory can test three disease markers in a drop of blood in just 15 minutes

Acoustic sound waves can be used as a gentle way to filter out tumor cells in blood

A new, noninvasive approach to cancer imaging uses gold nanorods and reflected light to detect even small tumors

Optical biopsy could provide a wide range of diagnoses in minutes and should be viewed as a support, not a threat, to pathologists

Revised guidelines call for increased accuracy and greater pathologist-oncologist collaboration, but will impact workload

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) assay: essential part of prostate cancer diagnosis or public menace? We fire up the discussion with five expert views.