TON May 2015 Vol 8 No 3

A new clinical practice guideline for smoking cessation in oncology patients encourages use of evidence-based pharmacotherapy, behavioral therapy, and close follow-up with re-treatment, if needed, said Peter Shields, MD, Deputy Director, the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) 20th Annual Conference, held in March in Hollywood, Florida. Read More ›

“I want the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome to lead a new era of medicine, one that delivers the right treatment at the right time.” So said the president of the United States in his State of the Union Address on January 20, 2015. Read More ›

Use of adjuvant sorafenib and sunitinib failed to extend disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with locally advanced kidney cancer at high risk of recurrence, according to initial results from the ASSURE study presented at the 2015 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. ASSURE is the first and largest study of adjuvant vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors in kidney cancer. Read More ›

Experts are hopeful that the field of prostate cancer will soon be catching up to breast cancer and some other tumor types with regard to genomic markers. A study featured at the 2015 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium suggests that the androgen receptor (AR) abnormality known as AR-V7 will turn out to be a predictive marker to help in treatment selection for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Read More ›