Investigators sought to determine the prevalence of weight gain and becoming overweight or obese and its association with hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction in survivors of childhood brain cancer.
The American Cancer Society’s annual report approximates the new cancer diagnoses and deaths expected in 2021 and identifies impactful patterns in oncology care.
Sean McGowan, senior director of Biosimilars at AmerisourceBergen, and Brian Ansay, senior vice president of Sales and Corporate Services at ION Solutions, review 2020 biosimilar trends in oncology and forecast what is ahead in 2021.
Investigators performed immunohistochemistry on glioblastoma tumor samples in an effort to identify molecular subtypes associated with treatment sensitivities.
Researchers have identified actionable alterations in nearly 38% of patients with cancer, and almost 18% of patients were assigned to treatments based on their molecular profiling results.
A vaccine consisting of autologous dendritic cells exposed to tumor antigens was well tolerated and showed clinical benefit among patients with glioblastoma.
Risks of moving clinical trials online include missing key information about the patient experience — and higher dropout rates could also impair the overall quality of trials.
The social media platform can be useful as an education tool for oncologists to stay up to date on new research in oncology — but physicians still need to be mindful of the information sources.
New research presented at ASCO 2020 sheds light on conflicts of interest among NCCN panelists and links industry dollars to measures of academic success among junior faculty.
he designation is supported by data from a phase 1 trial conducted by Reata Pharmaceuticals in 2016. Findings from the study showed 44% of patients treated with berubicin (n=11 out of 25) experienced a statistically significant improvement in progression free survival.
