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For our 7th video in the GRACE Spanish Lung Cancer Library, Antonio Calles, MD joined GRACE to discuss the best treatment for frail patients with advanced NSCLC.

For our 6th video in the GRACE Spanish Lung Cancer Library, Antonio Calles, MD joined GRACE to discuss what is maintenance therapy and why it would be recommended in advanced NSCLC.

For our 5th video in the GRACE Spanish Lung Cancer Library, Antonio Calles, MD joined GRACE to discuss the most appropriate treatment for elderly patients with advanced NSCLC, and whether age alters the recommendations.

For our 4th video in the GRACE Spanish Lung Cancer Library, Antonio Calles, MD joined GRACE to discuss what the role of Avastin (bevacizumab) is in treating advanced NSCLC today.

In this sixteenth and final video from the Targeted Therapies Patient Forum, the eighth from the afternoon breakout survivorship sessions, we present "Recharging the Caregivers Batteries", with Jeanice Hansen, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C.

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We're thrilled to be working again with LUNGevity Foundation to bring you another webinar just in time for November as lung cancer awareness month. On Tuesday, November 12th, at 2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific, Dr. David Spigel from Sarah Cannon Cancer Center in Nashville, TN will lead us in a very timely discussion of current and future management issues in squamous cell non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a subtype that comprises 20-25% of NSCLC but has historically been more known for treatments you don't offer than for specific treatment options that are especially appealing for it.

The course of Erbitux (cetuximab), the antibody to EGFR, in lung cancer over the last years has been controversial but overall underwhelming. Added to...

One ongoing controversy in the world of managing cancer, especially one in which cures are elusive, is how high the bar should be to guide treatment...

Almost exactly a year ago, I reported that the large MARQUEE trial of EGFR inhibitor Tarceva (erlotinib) plus either the MET inhibitor tivantinib (ARQ...

There are a few interesting new stories coming out of the 2013 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) conference in Amsterdam that's just...

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Each year, oncolgists, researchers and other cancer experts from across the globe meet in Chicago for the American Society of Clinical Oncology...

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