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Because most patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) present with extensive-stage disease—in which the cancer has spread to both lungs or throughout the body—survival rates are poor, and there is a need to develop alternative treatments to improve outcomes. In their study now published in The Lancet, Luis Paz-Ares, MD, and colleagues found that in patients with exten...
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
By delivering low-intensity alternating electric fields, Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields), a regional, antimitotic therapy, has been deemed effective in treating solid tumor...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Because most patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) present with extensive-stage disease—in which the cancer has spread to both lungs or throughout the body—survival ra...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
A recent phase 3 trial found that treosulfan/fludarabine used as conditioning treatment prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) led to greater eve...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Many patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) present with advanced disease, which is highly resistant to chemotherapy. Recently, the use of tumor histology and releva...
Friday, October 11, 2019
The phase 3 CASPIAN trial reports that adding durvalumab (Imfinzi®, AstraZeneca) to etoposide and a platinum therapy improves overall survival in patients with extensive-stage ...
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Because most patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) present with extensive-stage disease—in which the cancer has spread to both lungs or throughout the body—survival rates are poor, and there is a need to develop alter...
Many patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) present with advanced disease, which is highly resistant to chemotherapy. Recently, the use of tumor histology and relevant molecular biomarkers in determining optimal tre...
Results from a phase 3 trial show that nivolumab significantly improves overall survival compared with chemotherapy in patients who have been previously treated for advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In thi...
High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma is the most malignant form of ovarian cancer, with a high recurrence rate and a low survival rate. While patients are commonly treated with induction chemotherapy consisting of paclitaxel...
With a five-year survival rate of only 50.7%, multiple myeloma remains difficult to treat. In this interview with i3 Health, Carol Ann Huff, MD, Medical Director for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, explores the challe...
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Due to the increase in treatment options for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) in recent years, some confusion exists over the optimal therapeutic approach. A number of factors must be considered in CRPC treatment...
Optimal management of carcinoid syndrome in patients with neuroendocrine tumors poses a challenge, due to the fact that the primary symptoms of carcinoid syndrome are associated with more common diseases. Because timely rec...
As the number of treatments for recurrent ovarian cancer expands, confusion may develop over which therapeutic strategy is best to use. Numerous patient factors need to be taken into account when deciding on a treatment plan, such...
In the constantly evolving field of cancer immunotherapy, it is crucial that community practitioners keep abreast of the latest advances. In this interview with i3 Health, Latha Shivakumar, PhD, CHCP, discusses her poster pre...
Over the past few years, the treatment options for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) have increased to include novel hormone therapies, second-generation taxanes, immunotherapy, and bone-targeted and bone metastasis-t...
