SUSAN PITT received a Young Investigator Award from UW Carbone Cancer Center. Pitt is an assistant professor of surgery who specializes in endocrine surgery and thyroid cancer. She joined the cancer center in August 2015. Pitt will use the award to study why providers often overtreat thyroid microcancers, those that measure one centimeter or less...
In a unanimous vote, the FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee advised the agency to accept the metric of “minimal residual disease,” or MRD, as a basis for accelerated approvals of therapies in all settings of multiple myeloma.
