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In a phase III trial reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Martin Schlumberger, MD, of Institut Gustave Roussy, and colleagues found that the multikinase inhibitor lenvatinib (Lenvima) produced a large improvement in progression-free survival vs placebo in patients with advanced...
My first experience with cancer was when I was just 9 years old, and a lump the size of an egg popped out on the right side of my neck. A biopsy of the tumor found that it was Hodgkin lymphoma, and I was given huge doses of external-beam radiotherapy applied to my neck, chest, and underarm lymph...
A prospective, multicenter, observational study involving 992 consecutive patients with one to four asymptomatic, sonographically or cytologically benign thyroid nodules found that “the majority of nodules exhibited no significant size change during 5 years of follow-up or actually decreased in...
The information contained in this Clinical Trials Resource Guide includes actively recruiting clinical studies for patients with thyroid cancer. The trials are investigating novel drug combinations; the effects of radioiodine; blood cell modification; biomarker-targeted therapies; and the effects...
In the original phase III SELECT trial, no overall survival benefit was observed for lenvatinib (Lenvima) vs placebo in progressive radioactive iodine–refractory differentiated thyroid cancer. Overall survival was a secondary endpoint in that trial. However, in an updated analysis of SELECT, which...