A substantial revision of the staging system was presented at the World Conference on Lung Cancer in Korea this week. This project involved multiple lung cancer experts from all over the world and from a variety of specialties over the last several years, who reviewed the data on approximately 100,000 lung cancer cases, both […]
11 Comments I’m about to get on my flight back home, but I wanted to just give people a glimpse of the four presentations that were included in the Presidential Session of the meeting this morning.
The first was by Dr. Gary Strauss from Tufts Univ. in Boston. He presented evidence on the changing demographics of […]
Let’s move to combinations of velcade with other anti-cancer agents. My friend, Dr.Angela Davies from the University of California at Davis, led a single-arm phase II trial conducted by the Southwest Oncology Group, SWOG 0339, that evaluated the combination of velcade with gemcitabine and carboplatin (abstract here). A total of 114 patients previously untreated for advanced […]
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