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The OncLive® Conference page includes a listing of all conferences covered by OncLive®, including the ASCO, ESMO, SITC, EHA, ASH, and SABCS annual meetings, as well as the Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium and Miami Breast Cancer Conference, among many others. Conference coverage incorporates articles and interviews in written and video format.

GM-CSF Boosts Ipilimumab Efficacy in Metastatic Melanoma

June 2nd 2013, 7:50am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Adding the white blood cell booster granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor to the immunotherapy ipilimumab extended survival in patients with metastatic melanoma when compared with ipilimumab alone and may be a safer alternative than monotherapy.

Dr. Heinemann Reviews the FIRE-3 Trial Results

June 2nd 2013, 7:38am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Volker Heinemann, MD, PhD, from the University of Munich, discusses results from the phase III FIRE-3 trial that looked at FOLFIRI plus bevacizumab or cetuximab as a first-line treatment for patients with wild-type KRAS metastatic colorectal cancer.

Partners of HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients Not at Increased Risk of HPV Infection or Oral Cancer

June 2nd 2013, 7:31am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Patients with human papilloma virus–positive oropharyngeal cancer and their spouses may find some reassurance in a study that found that partners are no more likely to be infected by HPV than the general population.

Maintenance Therapy With Pazopanib Delays Relapse of Advanced Ovarian Cancer

June 2nd 2013, 7:03am

ASCO Annual Meeting

An oral targeted drug already approved by the FDA for the treatment of kidney cancer and soft tissue sarcoma has been found to extend disease-free survival in women with advanced ovarian cancer.

Dr. Tewari on Bevacizumab in Advanced Cervical Cancer

June 2nd 2013, 6:15am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Krishnansu S. Tewari, MD, from the University of California Irvine in Orange, California, discusses the effectiveness of bevacizumab in relapsed and metastatic cervical cancer.

Cetuximab OS Results Top Bevacizumab in mCRC

June 2nd 2013, 5:35am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Frontline cetuximab plus FOLFIRI chemotherapy improved overall survival by 3.7 months versus bevacizumab plus FOLFIRI in patients with KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer.

Nivolumab Delivers Enduring Benefits in Advanced Melanoma

June 2nd 2013, 5:26am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Nivolumab has demonstrated an overall objective response rate of 31% with a median duration of two years in patients with advanced melanoma.

Dr. Sznol Describes Nivolumab in Advanced Melanoma

June 2nd 2013, 5:23am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Mario Sznol, MD, from the Yale Cancer Center, discusses the long-term follow-up results from an expanded phase I study investigating the anti-PD-1 drug nivolumab in patients with advanced melanoma.

Dr. D'Souza on Spouses of HPV-Positive Patients

June 1st 2013, 11:41am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Gypsyamber D‘Souza, PhD, MPH, MS, from Johns Hopkins University, discusses the prevalence of oral HPV infections in the spouses of patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer.

Dr. du Bois on Pazopanib in Advanced Ovarian Cancer

June 1st 2013, 10:03am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Andreas du Bois, MD, from Kliniken Essen Mitte in Essen, Germany, discusses a phase III trial exploring the effectiveness of treatment with maintenance pazopanib for patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

Dr. Carvajal Describes MEK Inhibition in Uveal Melanoma

June 1st 2013, 8:57am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Richard D. Carvajal, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, describes the success of MEK inhibition in patients with advanced uveal melanoma using the agent selumetinib.

ASCO Highlights Put Variety in Spotlight

June 1st 2013, 6:15am

ASCO Annual Meeting

New data on emerging immunotherapies and fresh findings about established agents are likely to dominate clinical and marketplace news from this year's Annual Meeting of the ASCO, according to industry analysts.

Dr. O'Shaughnessy on Everolimus in Breast Cancer

June 1st 2013, 5:22am

ASCO Annual Meeting

Joyce A. O'Shaughnessy, MD, the Co-Director of Breast Cancer Research at the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, describes potentially practice changing findings from the BOLERO-3 trial.

ASCO Opens 49th Annual Meeting Urging More Federal Funding for Research

June 1st 2013, 5:15am

ASCO Annual Meeting

The American Society of Clinical Oncology kicked off its 49th Annual Meeting with leaders urging all stakeholders in cancer care to vigorously oppose cuts to vital US biomedical research funding.

Dr. Pazdur on Breakthrough Designation Requirements

May 31st 2013, 1:03pm

ASCO Annual Meeting

Richard Pazdur, MD, from the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, emphasizes the importance of adequate data supporting proposals to the FDA for breakthrough therapy designations.

Combining Ipilimumab and Nivolumab Shows Promise in Advanced Melanoma

May 16th 2013, 4:55pm

ASCO Annual Meeting

Combining the checkpoint antibodies ipilimumab and nivolumab led to deep tumor regression in approximately one-third of patients with advanced melanoma.

High Levels of Cardiovascular Fitness Reduces the Risk of Developing and Dying From Cancer

May 15th 2013, 2:07pm

ASCO Annual Meeting

Men with a high level of cardiovascular fitness at middle age had a reduced risk of developing and dying from lung and colorectal cancer later in life.

New PI3K-delta Inhibitor Prolongs Survival in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

May 15th 2013, 2:02pm

ASCO Annual Meeting

The novel selective PI3K-delta inhibitor idelalisib produced rapid and prolonged tumor shrinkage in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia who received the drug as a monotherapy.

Adjuvant Surveillance Effective in Early-Stage Seminoma

May 15th 2013, 2:02pm

ASCO Annual Meeting

Active surveillance following radical orchiectomy is an effective treatment strategy for men with stage I seminoma.

Follow-Up Scans Do Little to Detect Relapse of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

May 15th 2013, 2:01pm

ASCO Annual Meeting

Routine follow-up imaging is of limited value in determining whether patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma have experienced a relapse of their disease.