TON - March/April 2014 Vol 7 No 2

Angela Long is the founder and creator of Breast Investigators. Breast Investigators serves as a comprehensive resource guide to help those affected by breast cancer readily gain access to quality information, care, assistance, and support. Read More ›

Conferences: What can be said about them? They are absolutely necessary for challenges, progress, and outcomes that will contribute to better evidence-based treatment for patients. Read More ›

Several new drugs for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are considered major advances: 2 have been approved and 2 are under review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Read More ›

Deforia Lane, PhD, MT-BC, delivered the final address of the Fourth Annual Conference of the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators. Lane is the Associate Director of the Seidman Cancer Center, and Director of Music Therapy at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Seidman Cancer Center, and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. Read More ›

Many molecularly targeted agents that inhibit different pathways of hepatocarcinogenesis are under clinical development, and novel targets are being assessed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Read More ›

Patients with terminal hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may be a poorly understood group, according to the findings of quality-of-life research conducted by Lissi Hansen, PhD, RN, of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, whose special interests are end-of-life issues and ethics. Read More ›

Subsets of patients with colon cancer may benefit from increased surveillance for toxicities associated with adjuvant FOLFOX (leucovorin, fluorouracil, oxaliplatin) treatment, Canadian researchers suggest, based on their detailed analysis of the toxicity profile of this common regimen and their identification of factors that predict toxicity. They presented their findings at the 2014 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, held January 16-18, in San Francisco, California. Read More ›

In 2010, Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), chose the 6 original health priorities that he would call “winnable battles.” Read More ›

The optimal dosing of pomalidomide in the treatment of multiple myeloma has not been established. Yale University investigators compared continuous and intermittent dosing regimens, and while the intermittent schedule was associated with more toxicity, they concluded that it is preferable... Read More ›

Honesty is not always a bad thing: I am also the person who tells you that you have something in your teeth, yanks toilet paper off your foot, or pulls out that skirt, which you somehow tucked into your panty hose, before you leave the restroom. Read More ›