Imagine a hospital ward 100 years from now. Will multi-drug resistant infections be as prominent as they are today? I suspect so, because as antibiotics evolve, so will the infectious diseases they target. It's an arms race in which both sides have a capacity to learn and adapt. Not so cancer. Cancers can't learn from each other. But cancer patients can. This profound imbalance in the capacity for learning is an advantage that all cancer patients share. It is our super power. And we barely use it.
Despite the many advances in oncology, important problems continue to beset the field, including rapidly rising costs, uneven patterns of care, and poor access to (and participation in) cancer trials. A model that has been recently developed and tested to address these issues is the so-called academic hybrid community cancer center.
As a cancer patient advocacy organization—especially one dedicated to a category of malignancies that have seen frustratingly slow progress and only negligible improvements in survival rates over the past four-plus decades—we've come to view our role and responsibility to the brain tumor community as something like that of a plumber.
Systemic therapies for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) have expanded dramatically over the past 3 years.
The National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month. For further information, contact the principal investigator listed.
Two Johns Hopkins prostate cancer researchers found significant disparities when they submitted identical patient samples to two different commercial liquid biopsy providers.
The Hokusai-VTE CANCER study evaluating oral edoxaban (known as Savaysa in the U.S. and Lixiana outside the U.S.) found edoxaban to be non-inferior to subcutaneous injectable LMWH dalteparin for the treatment of cancer-associated VTE or major bleeding.
Patients with early stage lung cancer live longer when they receive a lobectomy rather than a less extensive operation or radiation treatment, according to a study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
A phase IIb clinical trial for Galera Therapeutics' GC4419 met its primary endpoint, demonstrating a significant (p=0.024), clinically meaningful and dose-dependent reduction in the duration of severe oral mucositis in patients with head and neck cancer receiving chemoradiation.
