Experimental Drug Plus Chemo Boosts Survival in HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer
December 10th 2021The use of pyrotinib — an experimental drug — plus the chemotherapy capecitabine extended survival compared with Tykerb and capecitabine among patients with pretreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
After No-PSA-Screening Recommendation, Prostate Cancer is Diagnosed Less Frequently
August 8th 2015New diagnoses of prostate cancer have declined nearly 30 percent, a study has found, since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force discouraged the routine use of prostate-specific antigen testing in 2011.
Updated Analysis of Prostate Cancer Trials Continue to Demonstrate Benefit with Xtandi
March 24th 2015Two studies investigating Xtandi in men with early-stage metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) further confirmed the overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) benefit of the agent over placebo, according to two recent studies.
Oncology Society Endorses Guidelines for Prostate Cancer Survivor Care
February 16th 2015ASCO has endorsed new prostate cancer survivorship care guidelines from the American Cancer Society that provide a structure to help prostate cancer patients with localized disease to receive high quality care from specialists and primary care physicians.