Latest Conference Articles

October 24th 2015, 5:00am

ASTRO Annual Meeting

Proinflammatory cytokines were elevated in patients with melanoma undergoing the combination treatment of radiation therapy and the systemic anti–CTLA-4 immunotherapy, ipilimumab.

October 23rd 2015, 2:28pm

International Thyroid Congress

Abnormal thyroid function tests were reported in up to 15% of patients treated with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab.

October 23rd 2015, 1:21pm

International Thyroid Congress

Coexisting mutations in BRAF and TERT may be associated with an aggressive phenotype and higher recurrence rates for patients with locally advanced well-differentiated thyroid cancers.

October 23rd 2015, 12:56pm

International Thyroid Congress

The recent American Thyroid Association guidelines to abstain from cytological evaluation by biopsy for patients with thyroid cancer on the basis of having thyroid nodules ≤1 cm is not advisable.

October 23rd 2015, 8:22am

ASTRO Annual Meeting

Kimberly L. Johung, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Therapeutic Radiology, Gastrointestinal Cancer Program, Yale Cancer Center, discusses a study that examined the prognosis of patients with ALK-rearranged non–small cell lung cancer and brain metastases.

October 22nd 2015, 2:35pm

International Thyroid Congress

Pazopanib demonstrated significant clinical activity for patients with RAI-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer; however, a predictive biomarker for the therapy could not be uncovered.

October 22nd 2015, 2:10pm

International Thyroid Congress

Researchers have identified molecular markers in medullary thyroid cancer that were associated with response to vandetanib and the development of metastases.

October 22nd 2015, 1:12pm

International Thyroid Congress

Stephen Huang, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the challenges of pediatric thyroid cancer.

October 22nd 2015, 12:38pm

International Thyroid Congress

Dual targeting of BRAF V600E–positive papillary thyroid carcinoma with the anti-BRAF V600E agent vemurafenib and the angiogenesis inhibitor sorafenib showed promising clinical activity.

October 22nd 2015, 9:49am

International Thyroid Congress

Marcia Brose, MD, PhD, associate professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses survival benefit and possible combination strategies with the lenvatinib in patients with radioactive iodine refractory differentiated thyroid cancer.

October 22nd 2015, 6:05am

ASTRO Annual Meeting

The use of radiation therapy has declined despite evidence demonstrating it is often more beneficial than single-agent chemotherapy or observation-alone in patients with low-grade follicular lymphoma.

October 21st 2015, 3:12pm

International Thyroid Congress

Pablo Valderrabano, MD, Clinical Research Fellow at Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses molecular markers in thyroid nodules and their connection to cancer incidence.

October 21st 2015, 2:02pm

International Thyroid Congress

Aditi Kumar, MD, endocrinology fellow at the University of Mississippi, discusses aggressive multimodal therapy in anaplastic thyroid cancer. A study conducted at the Mayo Clinic, where Kumar was previously a fellow, looked at 29 patients with stage IV, A, B and C anaplastic thyroid cancer, a rare form of thyroid cancer with poor outcomes. Often, patients are not treated at this stage, as options are limited and toxicities from treatments can be high, says Kumar.

October 21st 2015, 12:37pm

International Thyroid Congress

The oral multikinase inhibitor cabozantinib showed promise as a second- or third-line therapy in patients with advanced radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer.

October 21st 2015, 11:19am

International Thyroid Congress

The progression-free survival benefit with lenvatinib in radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer was observed across common sites of metastasis.

October 21st 2015, 9:48am

International Thyroid Congress

A large survey of endocrinologists found wide variation in management strategies for thyroid nodules that were frequently misaligned with current guidelines, particularly for biopsies by fine-needle aspiration.

October 20th 2015, 3:08pm

International Thyroid Congress

Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology (ENT) at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, talks about potential genetic signatures for locally advanced, well differentiated thyroid cancers.

October 20th 2015, 2:20pm

International Thyroid Congress

Manisha Shah, MD, Professor of Oncology at Ohio State University Medical Center, College of Medicine discusses cabozantinib in patients with radioiodine- refractory differentiated thyroid cancer.

October 17th 2015, 9:46am

NANETS Symposium

Pamela L. Kunz, MD, assistant professor of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses the potential of immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).

October 17th 2015, 9:40am

NANETS Symposium

Everolimus improved progression-free survival by 7.1 months compared with placebo in patients with lung/gastrointestinal (GI) neuroendocrine tumors, representing a 52% reduction in the risk of progression or death.