Dr. Nicola Solomon Contributes to Award-

Winning Research Paper

Scientific and medical writer Dr. Nicola Solomon takes pride in her work translating clinical research into clear and compelling prose. In her capacity as a scientific writer at the City of Hope National Medical Center in California, Dr. Solomon is honored to have contributed to Dr. Marjun P. Duldulao’s award-winning paper, "KRAS Codon 13 Mutations Predict Response to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy in Patients with Rectal Adenocarcinoma," which won the 2012 Colorectal Cancer Research Scholar Award from the Society of Surgical Oncology.

Dr. Nicola Solomon Contributes to Award-Winning Research Paper

As a specialist in the written communication of scientific ideas and a former researcher with extensive first-hand experience, Dr. Solomon helps City of Hope investigators like Dr. Duldulao to make their findings as accessible as possible. In this case, the findings concern the prevalence of a specific genetic mutation in the KRAS gene, among patients with rectal cancer. Dr. Duldulao’s study also considers the impact of this mutation on patient responses to chemoradiation therapies.

Dr. Nicola Solomon Contributes to Award-Winning Research Paper

Dr. Duldulao’s research indicates that patients with one particular type of KRAS mutation are in fact less responsive to these therapies, but that other KRAS mutations do not have a similar effect. Aided by the work of master communicators like Dr. Solomon, Dr. Duldulao’s work will help doctors to focus their research and treatment energies more effectively as they continue to battle rectal cancer.

Dr. Nicola Solomon Contributes to Award-Winning Research Paper