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December 14, 2015

Cancer drugs in the United States have increased 5- to 10-fold since 2000, but several analyses indicate that this increase in cost does not match improvements in health and overall survival.

December 09, 2015

Jimmie C. Holland, MD, whose emphasis on patients’ psychosocial needs helped humanize cancer care, was honored in the Supportive Care category with a 2014 Giants of Cancer Care® award, a program that the Intellisphere® Oncology Specialty Group launched to honor leaders in the field.

December 04, 2015

Combining olaratumab with doxorubicin reduced the risk of death by 54% versus doxorubicin alone in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

December 04, 2015

Clifford Hudis, MD, discusses the evolving adjuvant therapy options in HER2-positive breast cancer.

December 03, 2015

Gregory Riely, MD Medical Oncologist, Vice Chair, Clinical Trials Office, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering, discusses the benefits and challenges of using next-generation sequencing to identify mutations in lung cancer.

December 01, 2015

Naiyer A. Rizvi, MD, discusses results of a study looking at the combination of the anti-PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor durvalumab (MEDI4736) with the anti–CTLA-4 monoclonal antibody tremelimumab in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

November 23, 2015

Clifford A. Hudis, MD, FACP, chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, professor of medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, takes a deeper look at neoadjuvant treatment for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

November 13, 2015

Michael Morris, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses combining radium-223 with other types of treatment and how to best optimize the use of the drug alone.

November 12, 2015

Michael Morris, MD, discusses the potential of radium-223 and how the agent could be successful and impactful in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

November 02, 2015

Robert J. Motzer, MD, discusses nivolumab's impact for renal cell carcinoma treatment.

October 29, 2015

The prospect of combining PD-1 inhibitors with existing therapies, particularly brentuximab vedotin, is emerging as the most exciting new development in advancing the treatment of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, raising the possibility of improving the cure rates in a disease where standard strategies have already produced notable results.

October 21, 2015

The American Cancer Society now recommends that women at an average risk of breast cancer should wait to undergo annual screening mammography until they reach the age of 45.

October 21, 2015

Diane Reidy Lagunes, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the potential of immunotherapy agents in the treatment of patients with neuroendocrine carcinoma.

October 15, 2015

Dr. Noah Kauff discusses how hysterectomy, in addition to standard risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) measures, should be considered in BRCA+women to reduce the risk of serous uterine cancers.

October 14, 2015

Leonard Saltz, MD, discusses antiangiogenesis and the use of VEGF inhibitors in colorectal cancer.

October 01, 2015

The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab as a treatment for patients with BRAF V600 wild-type unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

August 22, 2015

The characterization of molecular abnormalities implicated in the tumorigenesis of sarcomas is being increasingly applied to the classification, prognostication and, in particular situations, management of these diseases.

August 19, 2015

Noah D. Kauff, MD, FACOG, gynecologist and geneticist, director, Ovarian Cancer Screening and Prevention, Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the main challenges in treating uterine cancer.

August 18, 2015

The FDA has approved the antibody-drug conjugate brentuximab vedotin as a consolidation therapy following autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma who are at risk of relapse or progression.

August 17, 2015

Lee M. Krug, MD, associate attending physician, Division of Thoracic Oncology, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a phase I study examining intra-pleural administration of GL-ONC1 in patients with malignant pleural effusion.