ASCO/CAP Clinical Practice Guideline Focused Update on HER2 Testing in Breast Cancer
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Antonio C. Wolff, MD, of Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, and colleagues...
Once- vs Twice-Weekly Carfilzomib in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma
An interim analysis of the phase III ARROW trial reported in The Lancet Oncology by Moreau et al indicated that a higher-dose once-weekly schedule...
Final Overall Survival Analysis of First-Line Crizotinib vs Chemotherapy in Advanced ALK-Positive NSCLC
As reported by Solomon and colleagues in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the final overall survival results of the phase III PROFILE 1014 trial...
Informed Consent Issues for Patients With Advanced Cancer in Phase I Trials
As reported by Hlubocky et al in the Journal of Oncology Practice, oncologists may not provide patients with advanced cancer participating in phase I clinical trials...
Low-Fat Dietary Intervention and Overall Survival After Breast Cancer Diagnosis
In an analysis from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Chlebowski et al found that overall survival after the diagnosis of incident breast cancer...
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Suboptimal Use of Initial Chemotherapy in Newly Diagnosed AML
In a study of National Cancer Database data reported in Blood Advances, Bhatt et al found that 25% of patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) did not receive initial chemotherapy, despite evidence that chemotherapy is associated with a survival benefit and improvement in symptoms ...
ASCO Applauds NCI Announcement on Increased Funding for National Clinical Trials Network
ON JUNE 2, ASCO President Bruce E. Johnson, MD, FASCO, released the following statement: Today at the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting, National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director Norman Sharpless, MD, announced $10 million in new funding for the National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN). ASCO applauds Dr....
AACR and Cancer Research UK Form Alliance
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in collaboration with Cancer Research UK (CRUK) are launching a new international alliance to stimulate discoveries in cancer research. The two organizations share the vision that significant progress against cancer could be facilitated by...
DNA Test Identifies Men With Sixfold Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer
A major new study of more than 140,000 men has identified 63 new genetic variations in the DNA code that increase the risk of prostate cancer. These findings were published by Schumacher et al in Nature Genetics. Researchers devised a new test combining these single-letter genetic variants with...
The X-Ray Era: 1901–1915
The text and photographs on this page are excerpted from a four-volume series of books titled Oncology: Tumors & Treatment, A Photographic History, by Stanley B. Burns, MD, FACS, and Elizabeth A. Burns. The photos below are from the volume titled “The X-Ray Era: 1901–1915.” The photographs...
Parents See Cancer Prevention Potential as Best Reason for HPV Vaccination
Parents of adolescents believed that the potential to prevent certain types of cancer is the best reason for their children to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, whereas other reasons health-care providers often give were far less persuasive. Findings from this study were published by...
Sherry Shen, MD, on Breast Cancer and Obesity: Results of the SWOG S0927 Study
