September 12th 2024
The FDA granted orphan drug designation for elraglusib, a novel drug for treating advanced soft tissue sarcoma.
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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FDA Grants Olaratumab Priority Review for Soft Tissue Sarcoma
May 5th 2016The FDA has granted an biologics license application for olaratumab a priority review for use in combination with doxorubicin as a treatment of patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma who are not good candidates for radiotherapy or surgery.
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Novel Molecular Targets for Drug Development in Non-GIST Sarcomas
February 26th 2016In this review, Rodrigo R. Muhoz, MD, William D. Tap, MD, and Sandra P. D'Angelo, MD address the emerging therapeutic strategies aimed at specific molecular targets that could potentially change the approach to patients with soft-tissue sarcomas.
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T-Cell Therapy Granted FDA Breakthrough Designation in Sarcoma
February 11th 2016The FDA has granted an affinity enhanced T-cell therapy breakthrough therapy designation for patients with inoperable or metastatic pretreated synovial sarcoma who harbor HLA-A*201, HLA-A*205, or HLA-A*206 alleles and whose tumors express the NY-ESO-1 tumor antigen
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Eribulin Approved by FDA for Treatment of Advanced Liposarcoma
January 29th 2016The FDA has approved eribulin mesylate (Halaven) as a treatment for patients with advanced or unresectable liposarcoma following prior treatment with an anthracycline-based chemotherapy, based on an improvement in overall survival (OS) in a phase III study.
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MAESTRO Trial Shows Evofosfamide Provides Little Benefit in STS
January 28th 2016The results from MAESTRO, a phase III trial examining evofosfamide in advanced pancreas cancer patients, show the treatment offers little-to-no advantage to both patients with pancreatic cancer and soft tissue sarcoma (STS) were presented at an oral session at the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
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