SRI Magazine 2016 - Sunnybrook Research Institute

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Target: Cancer

Target: Cancer

Researchers are taking precise aim at a ruthless, invasive and pervasive killer

Knowledge is Strength

Studies help blood cancer patients make treatment decisions

Overcoming Treatment Resistance

Overcoming treatment resistance in cancer

The Doctor Can Aspirate You Now

How can we speed up biopsy for thyroid cancer?

Targeted therapy for lung cancer helps stem progression and is easier to tolerate

A new kind of radiotherapy kills brain tumours with pinpoint precision

Individualizing breast cancer therapy

"Bespoke" prostate cancer treatment

A Tapestry of Trials

A tapestry of clinical trials

Stomach, pancreatic and other upper GI cancers: new findings are providing much-needed treatment guidance

Advances in Colorectal

Colorectal cancer advances

Oncologically Adept

Specialist care critical in treating vulvar cancer

The Incredible Shrinking Lesions

Immunotherapy for melanoma works over the long term: study

Going Gently When Cure Is Elusive

Avoiding invasive end-of-life care in cancer

Departments

Digest
Short stories
Connected

Breaching the blood-brain barrier noninvasively: an historic first

Getting timely post-emerg care: what best predicts It?

Special delivery

Caring for caregivers critical

Aerobic exercise as a “biological probe” in bipolar disorder

Surveying new territory: physician-assisted death and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Have gestational diabetes? Timing of delivery matters

Maternal-fetal specialists pinpoint which week is safest for baby

Optimizing rehab for stroke patients

New therapeutic technique called CO-OP strives to have more meaningful impact on skills

Innovative technologies need early-stage investment

Proof of principle funding is important to get medical products to market

Trainees

How are labs like home away from homes?

Ask a scientist

How do you dial down the stress after a challenging day?

Insight into obstacles facing today’s researchers

Facts & stats

Quick statistics

Q&A

Dr. Meaghan O'Reilly

Other features

Is there still a place for opioids?

Doctors are grappling with how to relieve acute pain while minimizing opioid use and averting descent into chronic pain

Fatal Entanglement

Risk of deadly post-heart attack complication much higher if you have diabetes

MRI study finds previously unappreciated and potentially fatal link

Brain stimulation plus rehab equals better mobility after a stroke

Gentle electric current applied through the head helps patients regain some function

Gut bacteria and the brain

Ultra-high-resolution imaging suggests bacteria produce a calming effect

Are Immigrants Healthy?

Are recent immigrants to Ontario healthy?

Data dig unearths unexpected findings

Messages from senior leadership

Delivering impact
Messages from the President and CEO and Chair of the Board and from the Vice-President, Research

Through the wormhole

Through the Wormhole

Journey into a different time in medical science

SRI Magazine 2016
Inventing the Future of Health Care

Editor
Stephanie Roberts

Design
SRI Communications

Staff writers
Eleni Kanavas, Alisa Kim, Stephanie Roberts, Betty Zou

Contributors
Jasmine Budak

Lead photographer
Nation Wong

Contributing photographers
Curtis Lantinga, Doug Nicholson

Cover illustration
WIN-Initiative / Getty Images

SRI Magazine is published annually by the vice-president, research, Sunnybrook Research Institute and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Queries, address changes and requests for permission to copy or reprint material in this magazine should be directed to the editor at stephanie.roberts@sri.utoronto.ca or 416–480–4071.