News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 8, 2015
Key clinical point: Nab-pacilitaxel had significantly longer PFS than dacarbazine in chemotherapy-naive patients with metastatic melanoma.
Major f...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 7, 2015
Key clinical point: Noninvasive ventilation, compared with oxygen therapy alone, did not reduce 28-day mortality among immunocompromised patients ...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 7, 2015
Key clinical point: Low levels of specific miRNAs in peripheral blood may reflect disease progression from MGUS and smoldering disease to multiple...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: October 5, 2015
“An imaging-based follow-up strategy does not improve postremission [overall survival] for DLBCL,” wrote Dr. Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly, of Aalbor...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 28, 2015
Key clinical point: Tumor cells within the same primary tumor were found to harbor both ALK fusions and EGFR driver mutations.
Major finding: In ...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 28, 2015
Patients with epithelial ovarian cancer who were randomly assigned to receive adjuvant hormone therapy (AHT) had significantly better overall survival...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 25, 2015
Key clinical point: The well-documented disparity in survival between black and white patients with HER2+ breast cancer was not observed during a ...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 25, 2015
Key clinical point: In patients with metastatic breast cancer, initial distant relapse site had little influence on overall survival rates.
Major ...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 24, 2015
Key clinical point: A combination of three histologic variables (tumor size, grade, and cellular proliferation marker Ki67) failed to accurately p...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 24, 2015
Key clinical point: Topical resiquimod was effective and well tolerated in patients with early-stage cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL).
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 21, 2015
Key clinical point: There is no evidence for higher risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) among recipients of blood products from donors who ...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 18, 2015
Key clinical point: Exosomes derived from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells induce stromal cell transition to cancer-associated fibroblasts...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 18, 2015
Key clinical point: In elderly patients with multiple myeloma, outcomes were similar with melphalan and prednisone combined with either thalidomid...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 17, 2015
Key clinical point: Noncanonical Wnt signaling was significantly enriched in single circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from patients resistant to the ...
News Author: Jennifer Shepphird Publish date: September 16, 2015
Key clinical point: Optimized radiotherapy that spares salivary gland stem cells during treatment for head and neck cancer may preserve patients&r...
