Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: SABR showing promise for spinal metastases; Chromosome amplification drives cancer progression via effects on secretion; IMRT shows well in study of upper-tract urothelial carcinoma
Remember how Ras is a frequently mutated oncogene in solid tumors? Well, it turns out Ras plays a role in those memories, too. In the Jan. 13, 2020, online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Juniper, Fla., reported on the discovery that Ras signals through Raf and then Rho kinase to control whether memory is short- or long-term.