This content is machine translated Palliation Giving more life to the days The essential foundations of palliative care can be well established in all specialties through continuing education, but knowledge of the four dimensions of palliative care detailed in this article is…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Gastric Cancer Targeted therapies in HER2-positive tumors. To what extent does the biological understanding of the disease help define the therapy? This question was discussed at the ASCO-GI in San Francisco with regard to potential treatment options…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Lymphomas What the family doctor needs to know At the SGIM Great Update in Interlaken, the most common problems and challenges that a family physician encounters when dealing with patients suffering from lymphoma were discussed. The only difficulty…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Lung, kidney cancer and chronic myeloid leukemia What does modern clinical practice look like? At the DGHO Congress in Vienna, various aspects in clinical practice in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), renal cell cancer (RCC) and chronic myeloid leukemia were addressed. In particular, the…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Stage 2 analysis of the CLL11 study Is the chlorambucil combination with GA101 superior to that with rituximab? At the ASH Congress in New Orleans, one of the topics was the CLL11 Phase 3 trial. After showing in the last issue of InFo ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY that the…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Pomalidomide in high-risk patients. Because data on the efficacy of pomalidomide in high-risk relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma populations are sparse, a phase II study set out to evaluate the agent in patients with GEP70 or…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Newly diagnosed multiple myeloma Does a proteasome inhibitor offer new therapeutic options? One study discussed at the ASH meeting involved a regimen consisting of oral MLN9708 administered twice weekly plus lenalidomide and dexamethasone in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. It concludes…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Interview at ASCO GI on new data from the OPUS study. “We are a good step closer to personalized therapy in mCRC” In the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer, there were new results on subgroup analyses of the OPUS trial at this year’s ASCO GI in San Francisco. As previously shown in…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Follicular lymphoma Rituximab in maintenance monotherapy. A study presented at ASH 2013 in New Orleans examined the role of rituximab in maintenance therapy in patients with follicular lymphoma. The study showed that the drug, when applied…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Multiple Myeloma Media Workshop Which form of therapy is suitable for whom? At a media workshop during the ASH Congress in New Orleans, some key points of myeloma research were presented. They also discussed what these innovations mean for patients and used…