Precision Medicine in Oncology®

Karen Hagemaster from Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital on Chemotherapy Documentation Study

Dr. Mark G. Kris thoracic chair at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Discusses Driver Mutations Test False Negatives

Dr. Jack West Swedish Cancer Institute on the Gefitinib Advanced non-small cell lung cancer Trial

Dr. Axel Hoos from Bristol-Myers Squibb Explains the Future of Immunotherapy and Ipilimumab's role

Researchers are continuing to explore whether ixabepilone (Ixempra) is a better choice as adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with early-stage, triple-negative breast cancer than the standard paclitaxel (Taxol).

Dr. Tim J. Whelan from Juravinski Cancer Centre Provides a MA.20 Trial Result Summary

Even before the FDA approved ipilimumab in March, the field of cancer immunotherapy was a lively area of scientific inquiry.

Dr. Axel Hoos medical lead from Bristol-Myers Squibb Describes Ipilimumab and Future Immunotherapies

Dr. Tim Turnham the executive director of the melanoma research foundation Describes the organization

Dr. Axel Hoos from Bristol Myers-Squibb on Tools Available to Measure Ipilimumab's Success

Dr. Lynn M. Schuchter from Penn Med on the Next Steps in Melanoma Research

Dr. Mark G. Kris from memorial sloan-kettering Talks About the importance of Defining the broad term Biomarkers

Dr. Axel Hoos the medical lead in Immunology/Oncology at Bristol-Myers Squibb Discusses the Clinical Kinetics of Immunotherapy

Researchers have reported that acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients who are exposed to low-dose ionizing radiation from imaging and therapeutic procedures may be at increased risk of cancer.

Nurse scientist Donna Berry, PhD, RN, received the 2011 ONS Distinguished Researcher Award, which recognizes a nurse researcher whose work has enhanced the science and practice of oncology nursing.

Population stratification refers to differences in allele frequencies between cases and controls, resulting from systematic differences in ancestry, as opposed to associations between genes and disease.

Martine Piccart-Gebhart, MD, PhD is a professor of oncology at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and director of the Medicine department at the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels, Belgium.

Dr. Brian Rini from the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute on the Results From His Axitinib and Sorafenib Trial

The first drug that successfully targeted the HER2 pathway in cancer treatment generated much excitement.

Dr. Jeffrey Infante from Sarah Cannon Research Institute on the Next Step in Melanoma Research

Dr. Mark Kris from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Discusses the Pemetrexed Clincal Trial Results

Vismodegib has demonstrated positive overall response rates in patients with advanced basal cell carcinoma.

Patients with basal cell carcinoma had an eightfold decrease in lesion area when treated with GDC-0449

During the past 20 years, disease management systems have mushroomed in medicine

Both industry and clinical sources agree that cancer vaccine research is finally on the right track to achieve major advances in treatment.