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Jennifer Brown, MD, PhD, discusses final stage 2 results of the CLL11 trial at the 2013 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting.

Results of a small clinical study showed that in patients with posttransplant relapsed B-cell malignancies, treatment with engineered donor T cells led to substantial tumor regression.

James R. Berenson, MD, discusses a study presented at the 2013 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting that looked at arming an anti-CD38, myeloma-targeting antibody with interferon.

Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD, Head, Division of Hematologic Oncology, Alan N. Houghton Chair, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, highlights two studies that will be presented at the 2013 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting.

Many important issues will be addressed in the presentations at the 36th San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), held annually in San Antonio, Texas, this year December 10-14.

Meredith C. Henderson, PhD, Head, R&D, Provista Diagnostics, describes the dtectDx Breast test.

Studies presented at the 2013 Breast Cancer Symposium investigated the efficacy and safety of various approaches to the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer.

A pair of studies from the 2013 Breast Cancer Symposium delivered promising and preliminary news about the microtubule inhibitor eribulin mesylate.

An analysis of the T-PAS expanded access study of T-DM1 in previously treated HER2+ metastatic breast cancer confirmed existing information on the safety of the combination, and observed significant clinical activity in a patient population that averaged seven prior therapies.

New analyses of the BOLERO-2 trial indicate that everolimus and exemestane produced significantly longer PFS than placebo and exemestane in several previously unstudied patient subgroups.

Denise A. Yardley, MD, Senior Investigator, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses an expanded access study of T-DM1 in previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, gives an overview of the Snapshot assay for breast cancer.

Women with DCIS treated with radiation therapy had no increased risk of cardiovascular disease compared with women in the general population or women with DCIS treated with surgery.

Patients with DCIS who received an MRI added to mammography before or immediately after receiving a lumpectomy did not experience an improvement in the rate of disease recurrence.

Naomi B. Boekel, MSc, discusses the results from a large study that showed that radiation therapy for DCIS does not seem to increase cardiovascular disease risk.

Deanna J. Attai, MD, surgeon, president, Center For Breast Care, Burbank, CA, discusses patients' perception of breast cancer risk.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2013 Annual Meeting was held in Chicago, Illinois, from May 31 to June 4, 2013. Here's our slideshow from the conference.

An updated blog from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting held in Chicago.

An updated blog from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting held in Chicago.

At the press briefing on Monday, ASCO featured advances in lung and breast cancer treatment and prevention and new insight on the nation’s cancer drug shortages.

An updated blog from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting held in Chicago.

On Sunday, ASCO released data from five pivotal studies on reducing cervical cancer deaths worldwide, first therapies for two rare cancers, and treatment advances for breast and brain cancers.

Carol Aghajanian, MD, from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a phase III trial of pazopanib versus placebo in women who have not progressed after first-line chemotherapy for advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer.

An updated blog from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting held in Chicago.

In a press briefing on Saturday, ASCO highlighted important advances in treatment for multiple aggressive cancers, and new insight on HPV related cancer risk.

José Baselga, MD, PhD, Physician-in-Chief, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses targeting the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) in breast cancer.

Lisa A. Carey, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discusses the challenges of triple-negative breast cancer.

Fabrice Andre, MD, PhD, Research Director, Head of INSERM Unit U981, Institut National des Sciences et de la Recherche Médicale, Villejuif, France, discusses the need for new testing methods.

Martine Piccart, MD, PhD, director of medicine at the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels, Belgium, discusses genomic testing in breast cancer.

The 30th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference (MBCC) at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel, in Miami Florida, from March 7-10, 2013.