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Mary-Claire King was honored on Monday with the prestigious Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science “for bold, imaginative, and diverse contributions to medical science and human rights.”

Today we heard that the Supreme Court unanimously decided that genes can not be patented! This is an important decision for women and men throughout the United States.

If you thought the media has been covering a lot of cancer-related stories this past week, and wondered why, the answer is this: The annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting was held in Chicago the first week of June. Because its focus is on the latest developments in cancer care, this conference always generates a media buzz, and this year was no different.