In the mid-2000s, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US brought together a group of experts to try to overcome an issue that had arisen in the reporting of results from breast cancer clinical trials.
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Survival rates increased about 20% for children with high-risk neuroblastoma enrolled in a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital clinical trial that included a novel monoclonal antibody produced onsite. The findings appeared ...
Dec 6, 2021
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved an imaging drug known as Cytalux (pafolacianine), which is attracted to ovarian cancer tissue and illuminates it when exposed to fluorescent light, allowing surgeons ...
Nov 30, 2021
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A drug that strips cancer cells of their quest for immortality represents an effective new option for patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia, including those not helped by the only class of drugs currently approved ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Cancer physicians have long disagreed about whether stem cell transplants from donors with an asymptomatic blood condition called clonal hematopoiesis (CH) put recipients at risk for subsequent health problems. Such concerns ...
Nov 19, 2021
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A new paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shares findings from the largest registry of United States children with cancer who were diagnosed with COVID-19. Based on records from 917 children being treated at 94 United ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Individuals being treated for active cancer are at particularly high risk of severe disease and death from SARS-CoV-2 infection due to aberrant immune responses from the cancer itself and from some therapies.
Nov 10, 2021
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The PrE0505 phase 2 clinical trial results are published in the November 8 issue of Nature Medicine. The study evaluated the addition of durvalumab immunotherapy to standard chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated, ...
Nov 8, 2021
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In the United States, Black women are more likely to have breast cancer at earlier ages and with a worse prognosis than white women. Despite this, there is a critical gap in breast cancer risk prediction models for Black ...
Oct 29, 2021
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have surveyed cancer doctors to identify differences in physician attitudes and beliefs that may contribute to a gap in referrals to genetic counseling ...
Oct 18, 2021
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