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Clinical Oncology Week

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . September 20th, 2004

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Clinical Oncology Week | Other Publications

Brain Cancer Vaccine - Dendritic cell vaccine safe for children with brain cancer

Breast Cancer - Five or more circulating tumor cells may indicate more aggressive breast cancer

Cancer Vaccine - Multimodal cell therapy reasonable to treat advanced gastric cancer

Cervical Cancer - Complete removal of CIN lesions reduces recurrent HPV post-surgical treatments

Leukemia Therapy - Gemtuzumab ozogamicin with cytarabine effective in elderly AML patients

Advanced Solid Malignancy - Phase I trial to study HGS-TR2J in advanced solid malignancies

Bladder Cancer - Diagnostic methods reviewed

Breast Cancer - Anticancer compound in vegetables blocks late-stage cancer cell growth

Breast Cancer - Breast-conserving surgery plus radiation benefits older women

Breast Cancer - Canadian researchers identify new player in breast cancer

Breast Cancer - Counseling boosts immunity, improves health habits

Breast Cancer - Electrochemotherapy and cisplatin effective for cutaneous lesions of breast cancer

Breast Cancer - Large Phase III clinical trial will evaluate new radiotherapy treatment

Breast Cancer - Not all women with breast cancer require psychosocial help

Breast Cancer - Outcome better for women whose disease was detected by mammography

Breast Cancer - Probability of death from breast cancer or other causes estimated in patients

Breast Cancer - Radiation after lumpectomy may be unnecessary for many older women

Breast Cancer - Study identifies women most likely to benefit from tamoxifen to prevent disease

Business Update - Predictive medicine company retains financial relations company

Cancer Diagnostics - Apolipoprotein D is a marker for dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans

Cancer Therapeutics - Novel anti-cancer therapeutic licensed from Summa Health System

Cancer Therapy - Cardiotoxicity of cytotoxic drugs reviewed

Cancer Therapy - Consortium reports successful new cancer surgery procedures in clinical trials

Cancer Therapy - Data: Enhanced tumor cell killing when INGN 241 is used with Herceptin

Cancer Therapy - European Patent Office grants patent for paclitaxel formulation

Cancer Therapy - Rational Therapeutics to identify targets for SBP002

Colon Cancer - Enzyme signpost points to better bowel cancer test

Colon Cancer Screening - Virtual colonoscopy shows significant promise, though some issues unresolved

Drug Development - Protein kinase C eta inhibition potentiates TRAIL treatment of prostate cancer

Epidemiology - Cluster of male breast cancer linked to electromagnetic field exposure

Fungal Therapy - Fluconazole prophylaxis does not affect cortisol levels in critical illness

Fungal Therapy - Posaconazole is a new and potent antifungal medication

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C virus infection associated with increased risk of malignant lymphoma

Laryngeal Carcinoma - Blood serum useful in detection of biomarkers for laryngeal carcinoma

Leukemia - New patient data generated in support of the clofarabine new drug application

Leukemia - New patient data to support clofarabine NDA for pediatric leukemia

Liver Cancer - Identifying gene expression patterns may provide markers for diagnostic purposes

Lung Cancer - Syndicated study highlights non-small cell lung cancer drug development

Melanoma - Special Protocol Assessment agreement reached for MDX-010 in metastatic melanoma

Multiple Myeloma - Myeloma Institute at UAMS receives nearly $18 million grant from NCI

Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer - Paclitaxel, cisplatin, vinorelbine combination chemotherapy active in NSCLC

Nutrition - Impact of nutritional issues on head and neck cancer needs more study

Oncogenesis - RBMY gene expression associates with male liver cancer formation

Oral Cancer - Chewing betel quid without tobacco linked to increased risk of oral precancers

Ovarian Cancer - Heat therapy increases melphalan efficacy

Pain Medicine - Cannabinoids do not induce serious/relevant immunosuppression in humans

Personnel - Genetic and diagnostic company name chairman and founder as managing director

Prostate Cancer - Sunlight exposure associated with reduced prostate cancer risk

Renal Cancer - Ron protein is not a marker for oncocytoma

Staffing - Grants, Internet helping to improve radiation oncology workforce shortage

Stem Cell Transplantation - Allogeneic stem cell transplantation is safe in elderly patients

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