October 21st 2024
The FDA has approved the Ion Torrent Oncomine Dx Target Test as a companion diagnostic to identify patients eligible for treatment with vorasidenib.
Advances in TNBC: Communicating with Your Patients About Clinical Trial Awareness and Treatment Concerns to Improve Clinical Outcomes
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42nd Annual CFS: Innovative Cancer Therapy for Tomorrow®
November 13-15, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 5th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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42nd Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference®
March 6 - 9, 2025
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The Evolving Tool Box in Advanced HR+/HER2– Breast Cancer: What You Need to Know About Next-Generation SERDs, PI3K/AKT, ADCs, CDK4/6 and Beyond…
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Coffee Talk™: Navigating the Impact of HER2/3, TROP2, and PARP from Early Stage to Advanced Breast Cancer Care
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Fighting Disparities and Saving Lives: An Exploration of Challenges and Solutions in Cancer Care
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Historic OS Benefit Seen in Phase II Glioblastoma Study
June 25th 2015David Reardon, MD, clinical director, Center for Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and president, Society for Neuro-Oncology, discusses rindopepimut (CDX-110), a synthetic peptide vaccine, and its potential in brain cancer based on the results of the ReACT Trial.
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Low-Dose Bevacizumab With Chemo Not Helpful in Recurrent Glioblastoma
June 8th 2015Low-dose bevacizumab combined with lomustine has no significant effect on progression-free survival (PFS) or overall survival (OS) compared with standard-dose bevacizumab alone in patients with recurrent glioblastoma, according to results from a randomized phase II study.
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Glioma Therapy Trial Reveals Key Role of Molecular Signature for Outcome
June 7th 2015A reanalysis of a phase III clinical trial in glioma patients confirms that there is no difference for a radiotherapy-first versus a chemotherapy-first strategy, but there is a major difference in long-term outcomes for molecular stratification independent of treatment.
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Reardon on ReACT: First Immunotherapy to Show Benefit in Glioblastoma
June 5th 2015Targeted Oncology spoke with David Reardon, MD, clinical director, Center for Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, president of the Society for Neuro-Oncology, and lead author on the ReACT trial to better understand the significance of the study results for patients with glioblastoma.
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Genomic Profiling Provides Much-Needed Prognostic Data in Glioma
June 4th 2015Results from a genomic and molecular analysis presented at the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting and published in Acta Neuropathology indicate that low-grade gliomas may be classified into three distinct prognostic categories based on genomic data.
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A Little STING May Enhance the Immune System Against Cancer
April 25th 2015Despite their promise, checkpoint inhibitors are not effective in every patient, and research suggests the STING (stimulator of interferon genes) pathway may hold important clues as to why some tumors fail to respond.
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Rindopepimut Gains Breakthrough Designation for EGFRvIII-Positive Glioblastoma
February 23rd 2015The FDA has granted rindopepimut (Rintega) a Breakthrough Therapy Designation for the treatment of adult patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) that test positive for the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) variant (EGFRvIII).
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BioT3 Integrates Diagnosis With Actionable Biomarkers in Metastatic Cancer
January 28th 2015Metastatic disease accounts for the vast majority of cancer-related deaths. Ensuring a definitive diagnosis and the most effective treatment in a timely fashion is essential for extending life expectancy.
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Ancestral Progenitors in Glioblastoma Tumor Recurrence
November 19th 2014Roeland GW Verhaak, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Quantitative Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a study that examined the alteration of the p53 pathway and ancestral progenitors to determine if they were associated with tumor recurrence in glioblastoma.
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Rindopepimut Benefits Patients With EGFRvIII Mutation in Glioblastoma
November 16th 2014The vaccine rindopepimut appears to benefit patients with epidermal growth factor receptor variant III mutation (EGFRvIII) in glioblastoma with regard to progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).
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Lomustine/ Bevacizumab Combo Improves Outcomes in Recurrent Glioblastoma
November 16th 2014The addition of lomustine to bevacizumab showed superior efficacy compared with either agent alone in patients with recurrent glioblastom, according to the phase II BELOB study presented by Martin van den Bent, MD.
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PCV Chemotherapy Plus RT Improves OS, PFS in Low-Grade Glioma
November 15th 2014The combination of radiation therapy and procarbazine, CCNU, and vincristine (PCV) prolonged both overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) compared with radiation therapy (RT) alone in a phase III study of patients with grade 2 glioma.
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