CT colonography and stool DNA failed to get on the list of preferred tools for screening for colorectal cancer. A draft guideline from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released Oct. 6 calls for using one of three strategies: Fecal immunochemical test or high-sensitivity guaiac-based fecal occult blood test every year;Flexible sigmoidoscopy every ten years,...
In 1999, Richard Pazdur, a GI oncologist at MD Anderson, saw an FDA recruitment ad in The New England Journal of Medicine. The agency was looking for a director of the FDA Division of Oncology Drug Products.
