A phase II trial of Imbruvica showed that more than 30 percent of treated relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma patients remained progression-free after two years with no new or unexpected adverse events occurring during that time. Forty-seven percent of the 111 patients treated were still living at the 27-month median follow-up.
Premenopausal women who received ovarian suppression treatment along with tamoxifen had a lower risk of breast cancer recurrence, according to data from a clinical trial sponsored and supported by NCI.
Six-year results from the randomized phase III ENESTnd study continued to show higher rates of early, deep and sustained molecular responses when using Tasigna (nilotinib) compared to Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) in newly-diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia.
FDA approved Lynparza (olaparib) capsules as monotherapy for the treatment of patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline BRCA mutated advanced ovarian cancer who have been treated with three or more prior lines of chemotherapy. FDA also approved a molecular companion diagnostic.
2014 was a transformative year for The Cancer Letter.
FABIEN CALVO was named chief scientific officer of Cancer Core Europe.
FDA expanded the approved use of Cyramza (ramucirumab) to treat patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS OF AMERICA selected WIRB-Copernicus Group to help expand its clinical research program. WCG will assist CTCA in the centralization of its regulatory and ethical review process.
At a meeting Dec. 2, the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors approved three concepts during a joint meeting with the National Cancer Advisory Board.
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY and FEI expanded their Living Lab for Cell Biology agreement that includes the installation of a complete correlative microscopy workflow in the new Collaborative Life Sciences Building on the OHSU campus. This expansion adds a new instrument, the FEI CorrSight, to the OHSU-FEI correlative light and electron microscopy suite.
