WCLC 2018: NELSON – CT screening saves lives
A randomised, controlled screening trial for lung cancer involving almost 16,000 people in the Netherlands and Belgium found that CT screening produced a 26% reduction in lung cancer… read more.
A randomised, controlled screening trial for lung cancer involving almost 16,000 people in the Netherlands and Belgium found that CT screening produced a 26% reduction in lung cancer… read more.
The IASLC 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) was full of highlights, including 3 plenary abstracts being presented in the New England Journal of Medicine and involvement from… read more.
Professor John Lafrate (Harvard Medical School, Boston) and Professor Frank Detterbeck (Yale School of Medicine, New Haven) spoke in a session looking at some of the difficulties with diagnosis and… read more.
First-line treatment with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab showed an overall survival benefit compared to platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and… read more.
With permutations of potential front-line treatments for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) seemingly endless, one thing seems certain…
Hot topics in lung cancer – interviews from ASCO 2018.
June 2018 saw the launch of our first edition of LungCancer.Med, a new congress news e-journal containing interviews with speakers and delegates as well as articles on the latest hot… read more.
Survival was more than 2 years shorter in breast, prostate cancers. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) had a 40% to 50% increased mortality risk if they developed breast… read more.
Pathophysiology and diagnosis of multiple myeloma bone disease Evangelos Terpos, University of Athens School of Medicine, Greece Osteolytic bone disease is the most common complication of MM and… read more.
Pathophysiology and diagnosis of multiple myeloma bone disease Evangelos Terpos, University of Athens School of Medicine, Greece Osteolytic bone disease is the most common complication of MM and… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Investigative rovalpituzumab tesirine (Rova-T) appears to be safe and shows efficacy in treating advanced small cell lung cancer (SCLC), researchers reported in June, 2016 at… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Six medicines, including two combination therapies for chronic hepatitis C, have been recommended for approval at the May meeting of the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for… read more.