Advanced stage disease
As survival with frontline chemotherapy has steadily improved for patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma several studies have looked at how far short- and long-term toxicity can be reduced… read more.
As survival with frontline chemotherapy has steadily improved for patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma several studies have looked at how far short- and long-term toxicity can be reduced… read more.
Among the late-breaking clinical trial abstracts at UEG Week were new data for ustekinumab in UC, a new formulation for subcutaneous administration of vedolizumab, and early clinical data… read more.
Professor Stefan Schreiber (Germany) discusses the future of therapies in IBD.
Dr Filip Baert (Belgium) discusses the debate at UEGW on treating to target and tight monitoring in IBD.
Dr Johan Burisch (Denmark) reviews data he presented on the cost saving effect of biological therapy in patients with IBD.
Creative approaches that can be used to keep control of oligometastic disease in patients with non-small cell lung cancer were discussed here at the IASLC 19th World Conference on… read more.
Dr Jesme Fox (Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, UK) discusses research she presented showing that lung cancer stigma is detrimental to patients’ care.
WCLC co-Presidents Professor Andrea Bezjak and Dr Natasha Leighl (both of Toronto, Canada) discuss research from their centre on the iimportance of QOL outcome measures in clinical trials.
Talk of progress in cancer treatment can ring hollow if the new, life-lengthening therapies are not widely available, the president-elect of the European Society of Medical Oncology said… read more.
Patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer taking durvalumab had significantly better overall survival than those on placebo after standard chemotherapy and radiation, according to the… read more.
The ALK- and ROS1-inhibitor brigatinib showed a better progression-free survival (PFS) compared to the ALK-inhibitor crizotinib in the first interim analysis of a head-to-head trial in patients with… read more.
Professor Gail Darling (WCLC co-President, Toronto, Canada) discusses the success of combined screening and smoking cessation pilot in Ontario.
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