SHOHREH SHAHABI was named chief of the division of gynecologic oncology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
The Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology announced the recipients of the 2015 Young Investigator Awards, Career Development Awards, Advanced Clinical Research Award in Breast Cancer, and the Comparative Effectiveness Research Professorship in Breast Cancer.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court upheld on May 22 a lower court's order requiring nine tobacco companies to publish “corrective statements” about the dangers of tobacco and its practices of marketing to children.
ABBVIE completed its acquisition of Pharmacyclics Inc., includiing Imbruvica (ibrutinib).
VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS and Flatiron Health will collaborate to develop electronic health record analytics and decision support software for cancer care providers. The goal is to offer a suite of cloud-based software solutions that support oncologists from screening to survivorship.
By 1986, there were substantial data in animals that molecularly-clone human haematopoietic growth factors, such as granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), could accelerate bone marrow recovery and increase survival after exposure to high-dose ionizing radiations given under controlled experimental conditions.
Neupogen, a drug widely used in oncology, recently received an FDA approval for boosting survival in people acutely exposed to myelosuppressive doses of radiation, also known as hematopoietic syndrome or acute radiation syndrome.
CATHERINE BROWN was named president of the John Wayne Cancer Foundation.
FDA granted Fast Track designation to AG-120 for the treatment of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia who harbor an isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) mutation.
THE PATIENT-CENTERED OUTCOMES RESEARCH INSTITUTE approved more than $120 million to fund 34 patient-centered clinical comparative clinical effectiveness research studies on a range of conditions and patient populations.
