Suboptimal Use of Initial Chemotherapy in Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia
In a study of National Cancer Database data reported in Blood Advances, Vijaya Raj Bhatt, MD, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and colleagues found that...
Expanding the Use of Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients With Advanced Cancer
Patients with advanced cancer often get more aggressive treatment than they want because too few oncologists elicit their end-of-life treatment preferences...
Male Breast Cancer: An Understudied Malignancy
Male breast cancer is a rare and understudied malignancy when compared with female breast cancer, with conflicting literature on survival outcomes in men and women...
Active Surveillance of Lung Subsolid Nodules May Reduce Unnecessary Surgery and Overtreatment
Subsolid nodules can be considered a biomarker of lung cancer risk and should be managed with long-term active surveillance. Conservative management of subsolid nodules...
Cancer on the Global Stage: Incidence and Cancer-Related Mortality in Barbados
Barbados is one of the Caribbean islands located in the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast of Venezuela. The island was uninhabited before the British established a settlement...
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Sequential vs Concurrent Neoadjuvant Therapy in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
As reported in JAMA Oncology by Buzdar et al, the phase III ACOSOG Z1041 (Alliance) trial showed no difference in disease-free or overall survival with sequential vs concurrent neoadjuvant anthracycline and trastuzumab in patients with operable HER2-positive breast cancer. An earlier report from...
ASCO Volunteer Advocates Bringing Cancer Priorities to Capitol Hill for 2018 Advocacy Summit
ON SEPTEMBER 25–26, oncology care providers from across the United States will head to Capitol Hill to participate in the 3rd annual ASCO Advocacy Summit. Over 2 days, ASCO volunteer advocates will meet with members of Congress and their staff to educate them on critical issues affecting patients...
Clarifying the Complexity of Genomic Testing in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
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Origins and Genetics Associated With Mixed-Phenotype Acute Leukemia
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E. John Wherry, PhD, Named Chair of Systems Pharmacology at Perelman School of Medicine
E. John Wherry, PhD, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wherry is the Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President’s Distinguished Professor in the Department of...
Avelumab Plus Axitinib in Previously Untreated Patients With Advanced Kidney Cancer
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