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World Health Matters: The Netherlands: Nuts may protect against major causes of death

Written by | 2 Jul 2015

by Gary Finnegan: Peanut and nut intake appear to lower mortality rates from major diseases, according to a new study, but peanut butter has no shown any protective… read more.

World Health Matters: Ireland: Early palliative care delivers cost savings

Written by | 1 Jul 2015

by Gary Finnegan: People with terminal cancer often require palliative care in the late stages of their lives. This branch of medicine has long been lauded for the… read more.

EMA Highlights: New options for melanoma patients with poor prognosis

Written by | 29 Jun 2015

by Gary Finnegan: Keytruda (pembrolizumab) has been recommended by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with advanced melanoma that cannot be… read more.

EMA Highlights: Green light for rare cancer treatments

Written by | 25 Jun 2015

by Gary Finnegan: Survival rates in young patients with high-risk neuroblastoma can be improved by Unituxin (dinutuximab), a new treatment approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

ASCO 2015 Report: New, less toxic, treatment emerges for difficult-to-treat breast cancer

Written by | 11 Jun 2015

by Bruce Sylvester: Investigators from the phase III PALOMA-3 trial report that treatment with the recently FDA-approved drug palbociclib more than doubled the time to cancer recurrence among… read more.

ASCO 2015 Report: Dual immunotherapy improves progression-free survival in advanced melanoma

Written by | 10 Jun 2015

by Bruce Sylvester: Treatment of advanced melanoma with a combination of  nivolumab (Opdivo™) and ipilimumab (Yervoy™) or with nivolumab alone increases progression-free survival over ipilimumab monotherapy, researchers reported… read more.

ASCO 2015 Report: In noninvasive breast cancer, anastrozole tops tamoxifen for recurrence prevention in postmenopausal women under 60

Written by | 9 Jun 2015

by Bruce Sylvester: Anastrozole is significantly more effective than tamoxifen in preventing cancer recurrence after lumpectomy and radiation therapy in postmenopausal women, age 60 or younger with DCIS… read more.

ASCO 2015 Report: Pembrolizumab shows “remarkable” efficacy in head and neck cancer

Written by | 8 Jun 2015

by Bruce Sylvester: Pembrolizumab (Keytruda®), an anti-PD-1 antibody immunotherapy has shown efficacy in one fourth of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer, researchers reported on… read more.

ASCO Report 2015: Immunotherapy nivolumab improves survival in squamous-non-small cell lung cancer

Written by | 4 Jun 2015

by Bruce Sylvester: In a Phase III trial comparing standard docetaxel chemotherapy with immunotherapy nivolumab, researchers reported that subjects with squamous-non-small cell lung cancer treated with nivolumab lived… read more.

BSH 2015: COSD and SACT Cancer Data: How do you perform/conform nationally? Robin Ireland, Kings College Hospital, London.

Written by | 3 Jun 2015

by Christine Clark: The National Cancer Information Network (NCIN) was established to drive change and improve cancer outcomes. Analyses show large variations in practices and outcomes some of… read more.

Video Interview from the BSH 2015: Dr Graham Collins: Autologous vs Allogenic transplantation in Hodgkin lymphoma – where do they fit in?

Written by | 2 Jun 2015

Dr Graham Collins from the Oxford Cancer and Haematology Centre, Oxford, UK.

Video Interview and editorial from the BSH 2015: Professor Graham Jackson discusses the journey from despair to hope in multiple myeloma. Click on the image for interview and editorial.

Written by | 1 Jun 2015

Graham Jackson, Professor of Clinical haematology, Newcastle upon Tyne and former president of the British Society for Haematology (BSH). Article by Christine Clark: In the 1970s the prospect… read more.

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