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Showing 16201 - 16250Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Announces 2011 Brinker Award Winners for Scientific Distinction
Armando Giuliano, MD, and Carlos Arteaga, MD, are being honored as this year’s winners of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Brinker Awards for Scientific Distinction in basic science and clinical research. The awards will be presented on December 7 at the 34th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Unrealistic Optimism’ or Losing Sight of the Forest for the Trees?
The article: “Unrealistic Optimism Poses Ethical Challenges, May Affect Informed Consent Process” (The ASCO Post, September 1, 2011, page 35) seems to be delving into a subject with an intent that is unclear. I agree fully with Dr. Jimmie Holland that discrimination between “optimism” and...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Treating Cancer or Fear?
I read the article by Deb Stewart, “Acting on Fear” (The ASCO Post, August 15, 2011, page 1) with interest, disappointment, and empathy. “Acting on fear” in cancer treatment generally, and particularly in breast cancer, is not uncommon. Hence, I was most interested in the article’s major thrust, as ...
Cancer Information on Wikipedia as Accurate as on PDQ but Harder to Understand
A comparison of cancer information on Wikipedia and the patient version of information on the NCI’s Physician Data Query (PDQ) “found that although Wikipedia had similar accuracy and depth to the PDQ, the written style was more complex and thus might be less understandable to patients.” According...
Hepatic Resection Remains Preferred Strategy for Colorectal Liver Metastases
Hepatic resection was shown to be superior to radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for the treatment of colorectal liver metastases, according to a model used to stimulate a randomized controlled trial. Researchers from the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Program at the Providence Portland Medical...
Replacing Epirubicin with Docetaxel for Three Cycles Improved Outcomes for Node-positive Breast Cancer
Substituting docetaxel for epirubicin in the final three cycles of chemotherapy resulted in improvement in disease-free and overall survival in a trial among postmenopausal women with node-positive early breast cancer. Following complete excision, women enrolled in the Docetaxel Epirubicin Adjuvant ...
Comparing Therapies for Managing Hot Flashes in Women with Breast Cancer
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, two often-prescribed treatments recommended in clinical guidelines for the management of hot flashes were found to be effective in managing hot flashes in patients with breast cancer. Patient-reported hot flash scores showed that venlafaxine, a selective ...
Doxorubicin/Cyclophosphamide with Docetaxel Equally Effective in Combination or Sequentially
Five-year disease-free survival and overall survival rates were “indistinguishable” in patients with operable, node-positive, HER2-nonamplified breast cancer treated with the sequential or combination regimens of doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide (AC) and docetaxel (T). The Breast Cancer International...
Elderly Patients with Ovarian Cancer Least Likely to Receive Chemotherapy
An analysis of data for 4,617 women aged 65 years or older diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer found that those in the oldest age group, 80 and up, were least likely to receive any chemotherapy. While 53% of patients 80 and older received no chemotherapy, the rate was less than half (22%) for...
SIDEBAR: ASCO’s Role Recognized
One point that Paul H. Sugarbaker, MD, and David P. Ryan, MD, agreed on was that ASCO has done a service to the oncology community by presenting their debate about cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. That debate, conducted at the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting, sparked...
‘Hot Chemotherapy’ Generates Heated Debate about Its Use with Cytoreductive Surgery to Manage Peritoneal Metastases
"Hot chemotherapy” has become the common term for hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), which together with cytoreductive surgery is being used by some surgeons to treat patients with carcinomatosis from colorectal cancer. While HIPEC is not considered the most important component of...
SIDEBAR: Letter to President Obama
Excerpt from a letter signed by ASCO and other leading cancer organizations to President Barack Obama (July 13, 2011) urging him to resist proposed cuts to Medicare reimbursement for oncology drugs: “Due to financial and administrative burdens that currently exist, community oncology practices...
Oncology Community Faces Complex Challenges in Evolving Policy Arena
As the political environment heats up in advance of the upcoming presidential campaign season, many issues crucial to the oncology community are being placed on the political chopping block as policymakers seek ways to reduce the mounting debt and soaring health-care spending. To help clarify some...
FDA Announces Changes in Drug Center’s Oncology Office
The FDA recently announced organizational changes within the office responsible for reviewing all drug and biologic applications for cancer therapies. The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s (CDER) Office of Oncology Drug Products has been reorganized and renamed the Office of Hematology and...
ASCO Issues Policy Statement to Reduce Cancer Care Disparities
Last August, ASCO issued the policy statement, “Opportunities in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to Reduce Cancer Care Disparities” in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.1 The statement builds on ASCO’s policy on disparities in cancer care released in 2009. It calls on both the...
SIDEBAR: Who Should Manage Survivorship Care?
It has been suggested that after completing their treatment, cancer patients can be transitioned to primary care providers for continued “survivorship” care. But at the Best of ASCO meeting, speakers and audience members alike felt survivorship care is the domain of the treating oncologist. Few...
Yoga, Geriatric Assessment, and Nausea/Vomiting Addressed in Session on Supportive Care and Survivorship Issues
Marie E. Wood, MD, of the Familial Cancer Program at the University of Vermont, Burlington, addressed clinically relevant issues in supportive care and survivorship at the Best of ASCO® Annual Meeting ‘11 in Miami. Delayed Nausea and Vomiting Two studies addressed the problem of...
SIDEBAR: Novel Agents Are Still Needed to Address Cytopenias in Myelofibrosis
Despite improving splenomegaly and symptoms in patients with myelofibrosis, ruxolitinib has not been helpful for managing cytopenias in this population, according to Wendy Stock, MD, of the University of Chicago. “Additional trials are underway with novel [JAK] inhibitors, with some hints about...
Improvements Highlighted in Treatment of Leukemias and Preleukemias
Certain preleukemic conditions and leukemia in high-risk patients have remained challenging to treat despite advances in hematology, according to Wendy Stock, MD, of the University of Chicago. But studies reported at the Best of ASCO® Annual Meeting ‘11 in Seattle show progress even in these ...
Newly Elected ASTRO Officers Installed at Annual Meeting
Recently elected officers for the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) began their terms at ASTRO’s 53rd Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, which was held October 2-6, 2011. The new Board of Directors members are: President-elect: Colleen A. Lawton, MD, FASTRO, Medical College of Wisconsin, ...
Novel Drugs Ipilimumab and Vemurafenib for Advanced Melanoma
In this introductory installment of In the Clinic, The ASCO Post provides an overview of two new melanoma agents recently approved by FDA, with discussion on pivotal data leading to approval, dosage and administration, and managing drug-related toxicities. Watch for more on clinical use of novel...
JCO Implements Rapid Review Program
In an effort to support the practice-changing or time-dependent results of select articles submitted to the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the publication has introduced a new Rapid Review program. This fast-paced track gives authors an opportunity to have their important findings accelerated...
New Features Added to Cancer.Net’s Popular ‘Find an Oncologist’ Database
When patients need to find an oncologist, Cancer.Net is there to help with the Find an Oncologist database, at www.cancer.net/findanoncologist. This database is made up of ASCO members who have made their contact information public. In addition to location and specialty, patients can now search by...
Help Inform ASCO Policy with New Oncology Practice Survey
As part of ongoing efforts to respond to a rapidly evolving oncology practice environment, ASCO is conducting a groundbreaking national survey to better understand the challenges facing oncology practices brought on by the current economic, legislative, and regulatory changes. Under the guidance of ...
ASCO Study Shows Integrating Nonphysician Providers into Oncology Practices Is a Win for Patients and Providers
Is the expanded use of nonphysician providers (NPPs) a viable way to help ease the challenges oncology practices could feel if the number of oncologists entering the field does not keep pace with potential growth in the demand for their services? The ASCO Workforce Advisory Group thought the...
New Biomarker Test Cleared to Evaluate Ovarian Cancer Likelihood
Fujirebio Diagnostics announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market the company’s HE4 Test in an algorithm called ROMA to aid in assessing whether a premenopausal or postmenopausal woman who presents with an ovarian adnexal mass is at high or low likelihood of finding...
FDA Approves Denosumab to Increase Bone Mass in Patients with Cancer
Denosumab (Prolia) recently received FDA approval as a treatment to increase bone mass in patients at high risk for fracture receiving androgen deprivation therapy for nonmetastatic prostate cancer or adjuvant aromatase inhibitor therapy for breast cancer. Pivotal Trials The approvals were based...
New ASCO Focused Update Recommendation on Maintenance Treatment of Stage IV Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer
A focused update to the 2009 ASCO Clinical Practice Guideline Update on Chemotherapy for Stage IV Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer reflects new evidence on maintenance therapy in patients with response or stable disease after four cycles of first-line cytotoxic chemotherapy.1 The 2009 update...
No Value for Axillary Dissection in Patients with Breast Cancer and Occult Nodal Metastases
In a subanalysis of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) B-32 study, nearly 16% of clinically node-negative patients were found to have occult metastases upon more detailed assessment of the sentinel lymph nodes. While a slight difference in outcomes was found among this...
Can Bayesian Design Streamline Our Sluggish Clinical Trial System?
The randomized controlled clinical trial has long been the gold standard for new cancer drugs to demonstrate worthiness of FDA approval; however, many experts contend that that our method of bringing drugs to the market is plagued by undue costs, long delays, and overregulation. According to Donald ...
SIDEBAR: Expert Q and A
D. Neil Hayes, MD, MPH, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, discusses the role of HPV status in head and neck cancer. Are you convinced human papillomavirus (HPV) positivity is associated with better prognosis? Dr. D. Neil Hayes: The HPV story influences almost everything we do in...
New Therapies and Prognostic Techniques Highlighted in Head and Neck Cancer
D. Neil Hayes, MD, MPH, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, described efforts to position the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor cetuximab (Erbitux) in head and neck cancer treatment. Surprisingly negative results came from the phase III Radiation Therapy Oncology...
Novel Approaches and Agents Making Headway against Sarcoma
Novel approaches and agents reported at the ASCO 2011 Annual Meeting are improving outcomes in sarcoma, a heterogeneous disease with historically poor outcomes, according to William D. Tap, MD, Section Chief of Sarcoma Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Tap...
Adjuvant Treatment Still Standard in Melanoma, but New Drugs Prolong Life in Metastatic Setting
At the Best of ASCO® Miami meeting, Omid Hamid, MD, The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute (www.theangelesclinic.org), Los Angeles, California, reviewed abstracts that received a great deal of attention at this year’s Annual Meeting—the new treatments for metastatic melanoma. He also described...
Screening for Ovarian Cancer May Do More Harm Than Good, but New Therapies for the Disease Are Improving Outcomes
At the Best of ASCO Miami meeting, Daniela Matei, MD, Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis, described how new approaches are significantly prolonging remission in ovarian cancer. Ovarian Screening Provides No Benefit The Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) ...
Novel Management Strategies Assessed in Renal Cell and Prostate Cancers
At the Best of ASCO Miami meeting, William Oh, MD, of the Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, described new trends and remaining questions in the management of renal cell and prostate cancers. Axitinib vs Sorafenib in Second-line RCC Axitinib, a potent and selective...
Multiple Myeloma Research Spotlights Treatment Concerns and Advances
Myeloma data reported at this year’s ASCO meeting raise concern about the safety of a mainstay class of drugs in this disease, while also hinting at good efficacy of some novel drugs and approaches, according to William I. Bensinger, MD, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle....
Similar Outcomes Confirmed in Variety of Lymphoma Treatment Comparisons
Three abstracts reported at the Best of ASCO® meeting in Seattle provide guidance to hematologists when it comes to long-standing gray areas in lymphoma management, according to Oliver Press, MD, PhD, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, Seattle....
Practice-changing Evidence in Treatment of Noncolorectal GI Cancers
Studies presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting in the field of noncolorectal gastrointestinal cancer both reaffirmed certain standards of care and introduced some practice-changing data, according to A. Craig Lockhart, MD, of Washington University in St. Louis. Perioperative Therapy for Gastric...
SIDEBAR: Is G13D KRAS Mutational Status Ready for Prime Time?
Individual oncologists will have to decide for themselves whether the results from the pooled analysis of cetuximab trials regarding G13D KRAS mutational status are ready for clinical application, according to Axel Grothey, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “We still need...
Standards of Care Confirmed in Latest Group of Colorectal Cancer Trials
Colorectal cancer studies reported at this year’s ASCO meeting offered little in the way of practice-changing information, according to Axel Grothey, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. But they did confirm existing standards of care, he noted at the Best of ASCO® meeting in Seattle....
SIDEBAR: Stay Tuned for More Information on Neuropathy-related Genes
According to Daniel F. Hayes, MD, of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who moderated the Best of ASCO® Miami conference, taxane-induced neuropathy is a more complicated story than the study by Schneider and colleagues may suggest. “There are now three observations regarding inherited germline ...
Other Breast Cancer Studies of Note
At this year’s Best of ASCO® Miami meeting, Harold Burstein, MD, PhD, discussed several studies he found interesting and relevant to clinical practice. Genomic Assays One study examined two genomic assays for ER-positive breast cancer, Oncotype DX and PAM50, and found considerable overlap among the ...
SIDEBAR: Studies Sparked Questions to Breast Cancer Specialists
Based on the MAP.3 findings, should we be using exemestane to prevent breast cancer in high-risk patients? Dr. Harold Burstein: The risk of developing breast cancer was 2.5% in the placebo arm, vs 1% to 1.5% risk with exemestane. Also, the cancers that were avoided were probably ones with good...
Breast Cancer Studies Explore Wide Variety of Prevention and Treatment Strategies, Offering New Insights
At the Best of ASCO® meeting in Miami, Harold Burstein, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, and Carey K. Anders, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented high-impact breast cancer abstracts that will enable clinicians to optimize their use of radiotherapy and biologics. ...
SIDEBAR: Searching for More Efficacious, Less Toxic Adjuvant Chemotherapy for NSCLC
Accumulating data are helping to better define the risk-benefit profile of various adjuvant chemotherapy regimens for non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the impact of adding biologic agents to the mix, according to H. Jack West, MD, of the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle. In the randomized ...
Incremental Advances Demonstrated in Management of Locoregional Lung Cancer
Data presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting this year on the management of locoregional lung cancer present a mixed picture, with some advances and some disappointments, according to H. Jack West, MD, of the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, who reviewed studies in this area at the Best of ASCO...
SIDEBAR: Molecular Heterogeneity Complicates Management of Resistance
The molecular heterogeneity of lung cancers will make it a challenge to manage resistance in this era of targeted therapy, according to D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, of the University of Colorado, Denver. A case in point: the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) story. Recently updated data for crizotinib ...
Research Increasingly Points to the Role of Molecular Diversity in Metastatic Lung Cancer
Molecular diversity—its existence, extent, and implications for therapy—was a central theme of key metastatic lung cancer studies presented at this year’s ASCO meeting, according to D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, of the University of Colorado, Denver, who addressed major findings in advanced lung cancer ...
Special Supplement: Reports from Best of ASCO® Annual Meeting '11
The ASCO Post is pleased to present this special supplement with a focused review of more than 50 key abstracts from the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), as presented and discussed at the Best of ASCO ’11 meetings (July 29-30, 2011, Miami, Florida, and August 5-6, ...
