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New Trial Starting, Studying Avastin with Adjuvant Chemo

July 5, 2007 - 9:34 pm

   At long last, and after years of planning, a new large phase III randomized clinical trial is getting underway to determine whether adding avastin to chemotherapy as post-operative (adjuvant) treatment for early stage NSCLC provides added benefit compared to chemotherapy alone.  This trial, led by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) and with the […]

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Trial Testing PCI for NSCLC Closing Early

July 3, 2007 - 12:35 pm

  In a previous post I described the open question about whether patients with locally advanced NSCLC should receive prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) after completing chemo and chest irradiation.  The benefit of PCI for LD-SCLC is established, and it is a standard of care in that setting, and a new report from ASCO 2007 that […]

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