Onclive Team

Rogerio Vivaldi, MD, has vivid memories of the first patient with Gaucher disease ever treated in Brazil with enzyme replacement therapy.

The mood of the ICHG/ASHG 2011 congress often seemed buoyant as researchers discussed the doors that technology is helping to open.

Every clinician should have this resource at their fingertips.

Dr. Gregory Grabowski, from the University Cincinnati, Explains the Effects of Enzyme Therapy

Pramod K. Mistry, MD, PhD, from Yale University, discusses Gaucher disease

The public may believe it's superior to surgery performed solely by humans, but are they correct?

Delivering higher doses of external beam radiation in a shorter period of time was as effective as conventional radiation in preventing treatment failure in men with intermediate- to high-risk prostate cancer.

The National Coalition of Oncology Nurse Navigators (NCONN) held its 3rd Annual Conference, Changing the Face of Cancer Care, from September 8-10 in San Diego, California.

Parents prefer palliative chemotherapy for their child with cancer who is not expected to survive, while healthcare workers favor supportive care.

Patients undergoing lung resection for NSCLC are frequently exposed to a higher dose of radiation than that which has been deemed safe for healthcare workers.

Chemotherapy given at the same time as radiotherapy may be a feasible treatment for high-risk nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) of the head and neck.

Lynch Syndrome International (LSI) fills a tremendous void in the arena of hereditary cancers by providing networking, organization, and a voice.

The Internet has made it easy for students to obtain test questions.

As cancer treatments become more personalized, patients will be faced with learning complex biological concepts if they want to understand their tumors -- and their choices.

This chart lists the new FDA-approved oncology drugs of 2011 and indications.

p53 coordinates a number of antiproliferative programs in response to multiple forms of stress, including low oxygen, depletion of ribonucleotides, hyperactivation of growth signaling, and many forms of DNA damage.

Some cosmetologists and barbers inspect their customers' scalps, necks, and faces for the presence of skin lesions that they think may be cancerous.

Researchers are urging oncologists to improve the communication of complex medical information to their patients.

The rate of hospitalization in older men within 30 days of a prostate biopsy is more than double that occurring in a control population not undergoing a biopsy.

New data show that patients treated for lung cancer at high safety-net burden hospitals undergo curative-intent surgery significantly less often than individuals treated at low safety-net burden facilities.

The John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC), at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, is one of the largest cancer facilities in the US.

Because of bendamustine's potential to cause pain and erythema to the extent that hospitalization has been required for some patients, it would be prudent to administer bendamustine using vesicant precautions.

You might be struck by the seemingly odd distribution of oncology salaries in the United States. Why would oncologists in the Mid-Atlantic region, where the cost of living is relatively high, have lower median salaries than the North Central region, where the cost of living is lower?

A collection of photos from the ASH 53rd annual meeting at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA, from December 10-13, 2011.

Promising study results were released at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

New data support a potential link between early-onset androgenic alopecia and the development of prostate cancer.

A collection of photos from the 34th annual SABCS at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX, from December 6-10, 2011.

This month's collection of trials in progress highlights trials presented at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting.

A federal appeals court decides that stem cells are a renewable tissue.

Nurses provide their unique perspectives on many of the recent clinical trials and developments in cancer research.