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Janssen Provides Update on Phase 3 ACIS Study in Patien...

(Janssen) Apr 19, 2021 - The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today that regulatory submissions based on th...

Syndax Announces Positive Interim Data Demonstrating Ro...

(Syndax) Apr 20, 2021 - 48% overall response rate in patients with MLLr or NPM1c; 67% of responders achieved minimal residual disease-negative...

Amgen's Investigational Targeted Treatment Bemarituzuma...

(Amgen) Apr 19, 2021 - Potential first-in-class therapy for a subset of gastric and gastroesophageal cancers that overexpress fibroblast growt...

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Early Impressions of IMpower010: What Might This Mean for Immunotherapy in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer?

Robert Figlin, MD, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Toni Choueiri, MD, Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary (GU) Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discuss clinical progress in renal cell carcinoma (RCC)

Robert Figlin, MD, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Neeraj Agarwal, MD, Professor of Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Presidential Endowed Chair of Cancer Research , Co-Leader, HCI Experimental Therapeutics Program, Director, Center of Investigational Therapeutics, Director, Genitourinary Oncology...

Robert Figlin, MD, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Arjun Balar, MD, Director, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Program, NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, discuss clinical progress in bladder cancer

Maintaining oncology practice efficiency is critical in providing optimal care for patients, and leads to a better quality of life for them. At the recent COA conference, oncology stakeholders offered real-life examples and discussed ways to improve patients' overall experience at all stages of cancer, while increasing efficiency and avoiding staff burnou...

Oncology stakeholders discussed their experiences with prescribing biosimilars at the COA annual meeting, noting cost savings but also noting challenges. Shifting payer preferences for preferred therapies resulting in overcrowded pharmacies, and a lack of data and real-world evidence on long-term outcomes and safety were only some of them.

COVID-19 has highlighted health care disparities in the US, leading to poorer survival and outcomes, and gaps in cancer care for racial and ethnic minorities, and the socioeconomically-disadvantaged. COA panelists pinpointed other contributing factors to the inequities, including lack of diversity in both the oncology workforce and clinical trials populat...

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Bladder Cancer – Robert Figlin, MD, and Arjun Balar, MD, discuss clinical progress in bladder cancer

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Prostate Cancer - Robert Figlin, MD, and Neeraj Agarwal, MD, discuss clinical progress in prostate cancer

02/22/21

Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) - Robert Figlin, MD and Toni Choueiri, MD, discuss clinical progress in renal cell carcino...

02/22/21

Breast Cancer – Robert Figlin, MD, and Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD, discuss clinical highlights from SABCS 2020

01/12/21

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) – Robert Figlin, MD, and Mazyar Shadman, MD, MPH, discuss clinical highlight...

01/11/21

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Maintaining oncology practice efficiency is critical in providing optimal care for patients, and leads to a better quality of life for them. At the recent COA conference, oncology stakeho...

April 2021 Edition

Oncology stakeholders discussed their experiences with prescribing biosimilars at the COA annual meeting, noting cost savings but also noting challenges. Shifting payer preferences for p...

April 2021 Edition

COVID-19 has highlighted health care disparities in the US, leading to poorer survival and outcomes, and gaps in cancer care for racial and ethnic minorities, and the socioeconomically-di...

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New Treatment Directions Unveiled at WCLC 2020

Feb 01, 2021

By Ted Bosworth In early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), one source of good news at the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC 2020) was the effi...

ASH 2020 Advances Immunotherapies, Puts Spotlight on He...

Dec 14, 2020

By Mary Ellen Schneider This year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) featured new research on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cel...

DAY 4: Circulating Tumor Cells, HDAC Inhibition, and Ne...

Dec 11, 2020

by Chase Doyle Day 4 of the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) virtual meeting featured advances in early treatment monitoring, a surprising setb...

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