CHANDINI PORTTEUS was named president and CEO of LIVESTRONG Foundation.
The European Commission approved a new use of Vectibix (panitumumab) as first-line treatment in combination with FOLFIRI chemotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with wild-type RAS metastatic colorectal cancer.
KAREN JENSEN joined Scripps Health as director of the oncology clinical care line for the health system's integrated cancer program.
The American Society for Clinical Pathology, the College of American Pathologists, the Association for Molecular Pathology, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology released a draft of a clinical practice guideline on the use of molecular marker testing for patients with primary or metastatic colorectal carcinoma.
Kenneth Mandl's slide, presented at a Health Affairs press briefingThe costs of false-positive mammograms and breast cancer overdiagnoses add up to $4 billion a year, according to a paper in the April edition of the journal Health Affairs.
An interview with patient activists Amy Reed and Hooman Noorchashm, first published July 4, 2014.Nearly a year and a half after a surgical tool routinely used by gynecologists disseminated her undiagnosed sarcoma, Amy Reed found herself back in the operating room—this time for removal of a second metastasis.
MD Anderson Cancer Center President Ronald DePinho's administration acted in disregard of academic standards and the institution's internal faculty appointment policy, according to a 23-page final report published April 8 by the American Association of University Professors.
Merck and Pfizer will begin co-promoting Xalkori in the U.S., Canada, Japan and five European Union countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K.In the U.S. and Canada, Xalkori will be co-promoted by EMD Serono, the US and Canadian biopharmaceutical businesses of Merck.
CHRISTINA COUGHLIN was named chief medical officer of Immunocore Ltd.
Rubicon Genomics Inc. extended its clinical supply agreement with Agendia for use of its TransPLEX whole genome RNA amplification technology.
