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Adjuvant capecitabine adds no advantage to bisphosphonate in elderly breast cancer patients

Posted on: 12/12/2014 - 14:03

SAN ANTONIO – The combination of capecitabine plus the bisphosphonate ibandronate didn’t improve disease-free survival in elderly women with moderate- or high-risk breast cancers. After 5 years,...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

North America has highest rate of obesity-related cancers

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 21:08

For those cancers in which risk is associated with high body mass index, North America has the highest percentage of cancer incidence attributable to obesity, according to a population-based study in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: High TILs associated with less efficacy from trastuzumab

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 21:01

SAN ANTONIO – Know your patient’s number: Dr. Edith A. Perez of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., explains in a video interview how the level of stromal tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Pembrolizumab shows efficacy in advanced triple-negative breast cancer patients

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 14:59

SAN ANTONIO – Roughly one in five women with heavily pretreated, advanced triple-negative breast cancer experienced a durable response to monotherapy using the novel immune checkpoint inhibitor...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Pembrolizumab shows efficacy in advanced triple-negative breast cancer patients

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 14:59

SAN ANTONIO – Roughly one in five women with heavily pretreated, advanced triple-negative breast cancer experienced a durable response to monotherapy using the novel immune checkpoint inhibitor...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Cancer patients with incidental VTE have high risk of recurrent thrombi

Posted on: 09/12/2014 - 17:15

SAN FRANCISCO – Unless there is a clear contraindication to anticoagulation therapy, cancer patients who have an incidental pulmonary embolism discovered during imaging studies should receive chronic...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Game-changing study could end exclusion for HIV-related lymphomas

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 20:17

SAN FRANCISCO – Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation should be offered to patients with HIV-related lymphomas and treatment-responsive HIV infection, results from a new study...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Brentuximab changes landscape for post-transplant Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients

Posted on: 07/12/2014 - 17:32

SAN FRANCISCO – Early post-transplant brentuximab vedotin dramatically slows Hodgkin’s lymphoma progression in patients at high risk for relapse or progression, the phase III AETHERA study...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Bariatric surgery an opportunity to screen for endometrial cancer

Posted on: 21/11/2014 - 19:34

MELBOURNE – Bariatric surgery may provide a useful opportunity to screen morbidly obese women for endometrial cancer, according to the presenter of a study showing a 15% prevalence of occult...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Bariatric surgery an opportunity to screen for endometrial cancer

Posted on: 21/11/2014 - 19:34

MELBOURNE – Bariatric surgery may provide a useful opportunity to screen morbidly obese women for endometrial cancer, according to the presenter of a study showing a 15% prevalence of occult...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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