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FDA Grants Accelerated Approval To Melphalan Flufenamid...

(FDA.gov) Mar 1, 2021 - On February 26, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to melphalan flufenamide (Pepaxto,...

FDA Deals A Setback To Athenex By Requiring More Study ...

(Buffalo News) Mar 1, 2021 - Athenex Inc., the Buffalo-based drug development company that is building a state-backed pharmaceutical plant in ...

Cancer Patients Often Can’t Get Full Care With Co...

(Washington Post/Perspective) Feb 28, 2021 - New vaccines promise relief. But any further surges in America’s hospitals and clinics will ham...

Oncology Clinician Well-Being Roadmap Provides Five-Yea...

(ASCO in Action) Feb 26, 2021 - The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recently released the ASCO Oncology Clinician Well-Being Task...

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Robert Figlin, MD, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Mazyar Shadman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Clinical Research Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discuss clinical highlights in the treatment of CLL from ASH 2020

Robert Figlin, MD, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Division Chief for the Division of Hematology/Oncology, UPMC, discuss clinical highlights from SABCS 2020

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...

At 2021 ASCO GU, big trials like CLEAR, CHECKMATE 274 and EV-301 in renal cell carcinoma and bladder cancer moved the needle on the treatment of challenging urologic cancers. Dive into OBR's wrap-up of some of the most important clinical data from GU21.

Burnout among oncology clinicians has been exacerbated by increased stressors from the pandemic. We look at the causes and effects of this pervasive problem, and find out how ASCO is stepping up to alleviate practice burnout among cancer providers.

At WCLC 2020, the news from Amgen's CodebreaK 100 study was among the pivotal studies showing the great strides being made in lung cancer due to precision medicine. Not every study was a win though - read on to learn more about both the positive and the negative data.

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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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February 2021 Edition

At 2021 ASCO GU, big trials like CLEAR, CHECKMATE 274 and EV-301 in renal cell carcinoma and bladder cancer moved the needle on the treatment of challenging urologic cancers. Dive into O...

February 2021 Edition

Burnout among oncology clinicians has been exacerbated by increased stressors from the pandemic. We look at the causes and effects of this pervasive problem, and find out how ASCO is step...

February 2021 Edition

At WCLC 2020, the news from Amgen's CodebreaK 100 study was among the pivotal studies showing the great strides being made in lung cancer due to precision medicine. Not every study was a...

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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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