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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.

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.

Why almost half of patients opt out of comprehensive cancer testing

Written by | 7 May 2015

Results highlight importance of pre-test counselling for at-risk patient populations.  Some at-risk patients opted out of comprehensive cancer gene screening when presented with the opportunity to be tested… read more.

Dual therapy for metastatic melanoma results in longer overall survival

Written by | 23 Jan 2015

by Bruce Sylvester: Patients with metastatic melanoma treated with dual sargramostim/ipilimumab rather than ipilimumab alone have achieved longer overall survival and lower toxicity, but no difference in progression-free… read more.

ASH 2014: T-cell lymphomas: a challenge for clinicians

Written by | 19 Dec 2014

by Thomas R. Collins: Treating patients with T-cell lymphomas is fraught with challenges, requiring new approaches and sharper diagnosis, said Timothy Illidge, MD, PhD, Professor of Targeted Therapy… read more.

ESMO 2014 Report: FOLFIRI plus cetuximab in patients with liver-limited or non-liverlimited RAS wild-type metastatic disease

Written by | 24 Nov 2014

by Esther Drain:  A sub-group analysis of the CRYSTAL study.  In the CRYSTAL study, adding cetuximab (cet) to first-line chemotherapy (CT) improved clinical outcome in patients (pts) with RAS… read more.

ESMO 2014 Report: Adolescent and young adult cancer patients

Written by | 20 Nov 2014

Engagement of patients and understanding of early death in this group by Denys Wheatley. (1) When and why do teenage and young adult oncology patients die early in… read more.

ESMO 2014 Report: How to integrate genome sequencing data in oncology

Written by | 13 Nov 2014

by Denys Wheatley: Chaired by Atsushi Ohtsu and Jean-Yves Douillard, the first speaker Dr Kato (Japan) addressed the issue of the quest for different mutations in the hope… read more.

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