River Town Research

05/29/2026

first day at ASCO #2026

03/04/2026

February wraps up with some exciting new oncologic therapies which received FDA Fast Track Designation. A couple of key products in two areas of very high unmet need, gliomas, essentially tumors of the nervous system and HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma, cancer of the liver.

02/27/2026

What did last years oncology approvals tell us? Lung cancer has finally been getting the attention it deserves!

Exciting year for Oncology! NSCLC definitely reigned in quite a few new products with 6 approvals alone! Interestingly, two of the approved products in the 2nd half are specifically for HER2 positive NSCLC. While a less common mutation of only 2-4% of adenocarcinomas, is one of particularly poor pro

09/03/2025

Glioblastomas are so devastating. Fast growing. Anything that can help in this area would be great. Here they are looking at the impact an amino acid plays on its growth.

Some glioblastomas steal serine from their environment — a weakness that opens the door to treatment.

07/14/2025

I love this. It's about time they represent not just healthy people but even people with chronic conditions. T1 diabetes is often diagnosed in childhood and has nothing to do with over-eating. It is an autoimmune reaction.

The latest Barbie slays in a chic blue polka-dot crop top, ruffled miniskirt, chunky high-top heels and an insulin pump. She is the brand’s first doll with type 1 diabetes.

07/01/2025

Interesting new option for Endoscopies

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06/01/2025

ASCO2025

03/07/2025

People ask what I like about research. Easy answer: Because I love learning something new.

What is the first step you should take when you want to do your own research for something, whether it just be on a health condition you developed, how to do something in your home or a new parenting tool.

Step 1: Write down all the questions you have about that "some thing" - just list them in a bulleted list, not paying attention to how they come out.

Step 2: Consolidate that list into the top 3 key questions. Save the others, but start yourself simple. You will find a lot of your questions may have a common theme.

Step 3: Think of all the appropriate places you would find good quality, vetted information. DO NOT JUST GOOGLE. Is it a health condition? There are easy ones and hards ones. Easy would be things like Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson, Healthline, and of course any "Associations" or "Socities" of the condition you are in need of "American Heart Association, "MS Society." Most that end in EDU or ORG are safe.

Step 4: Go to the individual site. Use the "search" if they have one.

[Research is not as easy as it looks, especially if you are actually looking for scientific or real answers. You can waste a LOT of time getting garbly goop that was set up to make money from ads, basically crap]

Step 5: use as many search terms as you can think of to be specific in the search tool of the website or go to the top main navigation to find what matches most to your key questions

Hopefully this will guide you to a decent article written by a pro or expert and will answer your three top questions.

Step 6: Use more than one resource. Fact check one with another well vetted site.

GOOD RESEARCH: Sites that are backed by people who check the who are experts or professionals

BAD RESEARCH: Random Googling, or Any Social Media sites (FB, TikTok, IG, Reddit etc.) Remember these are also a ton of sites developed only for "clickbait" -these sites are often to get you to ads, they may have a sentence or two of what you are interested but they are not trustworthy

What to do next... more to come with how to do quality at home research.

02/25/2025

I learned a new phrase today: eudaimonic well-being!

02/12/2025