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Discussing Palliative Care Plans Earlier Improves Quality of Life

July 21, 2016

A team of researchers take a retrospective look at the patterns of how, when, and to whom palliative options are presented to patients with metastatic breast cancer, as an approach for gaining insight on how to improve care for patients with late-stage, terminal cancers.

Dr. Iyer on Treatment of Patients With Lung NETs

December 15, 2015

Renuka Iyer, MD, associate professor of Oncology, co-director, Liver and Pancreas Tumor Center, section chief for Gastrointestinal Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, assistant professor of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, discusses treatment of patients with lung neuroendocrine tumors.

Proposed Trial Would Be First Ever for Novel Two-Pronged Immunotherapy Strategy

November 13, 2015

Roswell Park Cancer Institute is taking the final steps toward what we believe would be the first-ever clinical trial combining two novel and highly promising techniques: adoptive cellular therapy utilizing re-engineered mature T cells and re-engineered adult hematopoietic stem cells.

Narrow Networks: Great Cancer Centers Need Not Apply

June 19, 2015

Insurance plans that limit which doctors have in-network status have become a mainstay of healthcare, helping keep costs down but stoking concerns and complaints from hospital administrators and regulators about patients' access to care.

Sequencing Puzzles in CRPC Therapies Remain Unsolved

January 23, 2014

So many new agents for the treatment of men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) have been introduced in the past several years that optimal sequencing of therapies remains an unsettled question.

Dr. Adjei on Adverse Events From MEK Inhibitors

September 11, 2013

Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, Katherine Anne Gioia Chair in Cancer Medicine, Senior Vice President, Clinical Research, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses eye toxicity from MEK inhibitors.

Dr. Wetzler Discusses the Use of Arsenic Trioxide in APL

March 26, 2013

Meir Wetzler, MD, Chief, Leukemia Section, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses a study presented at the 2012 American Society of Hematology Meeting analyzing arsenic trioxide in acute promyelocytic leukemia.

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