NCI Trials Overhaul Eyes Community-Based Biomarker Studies
Nearly 3 years after tasking themselves with overhauling the nation's publicly funded cancer clinical trials system, which had been criticized as sluggish and unwieldy, researchers working for and with... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - March 1, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Colorectal Cancer Subtype Associated With Obesity, Inactivity
A specific molecular subtype of colorectal cancer is more likely in people with greater obesity and physical inactivity, analyses of prospective data on 861 cancer patients found.For every 5-kg/m² increase... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - March 1, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Third Drug Approved for Metastatic, Treatment-Resistant GIST
Regorafenib, a multikinase inhibitor, has been approved as a treatment for locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor in people who have been treated with imatinib and... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - March 1, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Trends in Post-Treatment Leukemia
The risks of chemotherapy-related acute myeloid leukemia have changed significantly over the last 30 years, increasing in people treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and decreasing in people treated for... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 28, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Metastatic Breast Cancer Incidence is Rising Among Young Women
The incidence of breast cancer presenting with distant involvement has risen significantly over the past 30 years among young women, and this trend shows no signs of abating, according to a report in the... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 28, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Selective Resection Feasible for Esophageal Cancer
SAN FRANCISCO (IMNG) - Five-year survival rates for 41 patients with locoregionally advanced esophageal cancer who underwent induction chemotherapy and definitive chemoradiotherapy were 53% for patients... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 27, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Abiraterone Reduced Morbidity in MCRPC Patients
Treatment with both drugs also delayed times to opiate use and chemotherapy, was associated with improved quality of life measures, and remained safe and well tolerated, said Dr. Dana E. Rathkopf, the... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 27, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
FOLFOXIRI Bests FOLFIRI When Bevacizumab is Added in Colorectal Cancer
SAN FRANCISCO (IMNG) - Adding bevacizumab to the FOLFOXIRI regimen significantly delayed the median time to progression of metastatic colorectal cancer to 12.2 months, compared with 9.7 months when bevacizumab... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 27, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Kadcyla Wins US FDA Approval for Late-Stage Breast Cancer
Ado-trastuzumab emtansine, a HER-2 targeted antibody-drug conjugate, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of women with HER2-positive, late-stage metastatic breast cancer,... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 26, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Treatment-Related AML Rises in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
The risks of chemotherapy-related acute myeloid leukemia have changed significantly over the last 30 years, increasing in people treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and decreasing in people treated for... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 26, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Lung Cancer CT Screens Could Save 12,000 Lives
Roughly 12,250 deaths could be delayed or prevented each year if a national lung cancer computed tomography screening program were implemented among heavy smokers in the United States.That represents about... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 26, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Clinical Staging of Early Esophageal Cancer Unreliable
LOS ANGELES (IMNG) - Clinical staging of T2N0 esophageal cancer remains unreliable, despite advances in staging techniques, a study has shown.The addition of endoscopic ultrasound and PET/CT has improved... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 23, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
New Lung Cancer Data May Offer Reprieve for Peregrine's Bavituximab
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Inc. is gearing up for a Phase III pivotal study of its bavituximab in second-line non-small cell lung cancer of at the end of 2013, after concluding the drug showed an overall... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 23, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Cancer Incidence and Mortality Hit Blacks Hardest
The incidence and mortality of invasive cancers were higher for blacks than for all other ethnicities in the United States in 2009, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 23, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Survival Higher With Surveillance of Small Kidney Tumors
Older patients with small kidney tumors are up to 70% less likely to die from any cause when managed by watchful waiting rather than by surgery, based on findings from a large retrospective study.Surveillance... (Source: OncologySTAT Latest News)
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - February 19, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
