ESMO Congress | Conference

Pembrolizumab Yields Durable Responses in Advanced NSCLC

September 28th 2014

Almost 60% of patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer experienced tumor shrinkage when treated with the PD-L1 inhibitor pembrolizumab.

Vintafolide Added to Docetaxel Improves Survival in Folate Receptor-Positive NSCLC

September 28th 2014

Vintafolide in combination with docetaxel showed improvements in PFS and OS compared with single-agent docetaxel as second-line treatment of patients with folate receptor–positive NSCLC.

Dr. Kluger on a Phase I Trial of Concurrent Nivolumab and Ipilimumab

September 28th 2014

Harriet Kluger, MD, associate professor of medicine, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the results from a phase I trial of nivolumab and ipilimumab for the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma.

Anamorelin Improves Appetite, Slows Weight Loss in Lung Cancer

September 27th 2014

Patients with advanced lung cancer had improved appetite, less weight loss, and a significant increase in lean body mass when treated with the ghrelin agonist anamorelin.

Afatinib Improves PFS and Quality of Life in Advanced HNSCC

September 27th 2014

Afatinib delayed disease progression for approximately one month longer than chemotherapy and helped prevent painful symptoms from worsening for patients with relapsed or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Dovitinib Meets Primary Endpoint in Phase II Trial of Advanced GIST

September 27th 2014

Dovitinib, an investigational oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), demonstrated a "manageable" safety profile while controlling disease in about half of patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) who had discontinued treatment with imatinib due to disease progression or intolerance

Peter Emtage on the Combination of MEDI4736 and Tremelimumab for NSCLC

September 27th 2014

Peter Emtage, discusses a phase I open-label study evaluating the safety and tolerability of MEDI4736 in combination with tremelimumab for the treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Dr. Petrylak on the Results of the Phase II STRIDE Study

September 27th 2014

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and of Urology, Professor and Co-Director, Signal Transduction Research Program, Yale Cancer Center, discusses results from the phase II STRIDE study.

Bevacizumab Improves Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer

September 25th 2014

Treatment with the combination of bevacizumab and chemotherapy improved PFS and OS in women with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Dr. Kris Discusses Crizotinib in ALK-Positive Lung Cancer

November 2nd 2012

Mark G. Kris, MD, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the results of a phase III trial that studied the use of crizotinib in patients with advanced ALK-positive lung cancer.

Dr. Markman Discusses the Phase III AURELIA Trial

October 29th 2012

Maurie Markman, MD, from Cancer Treatment Centers of America, discusses the AURELIA trial that examined the addition of bevacizumab to chemotherapy for women with platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer.

Dr. Rotkowitz on Ipilimumab Plus Dacarbazine for Melanoma

October 26th 2012

Michael Rotkowitz, MD, from Cancer Treatment Centers of America, discusses a phase III trial that examined ipilimumab plus dacarbazine for patients with metastatic melanoma.

Tracking the Oncology Pipeline: Developments From ESMO

October 25th 2012

The latest research on several investigational cancer therapies was presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology 2012 Congress.

Dr. Aithal on the HERceptin Adjuvant (HERA) Trial

October 25th 2012

Sramila Aithal, MD, from Cancer Treatment Centers of America, discusses the HERceptin Adjuvant (HERA) trial that examined adjuvant therapy with trastuzumab for women with HER2-positive early breast cancer.

Dr. Nancy Lewis Discusses the Regorafenib CORRECT Trial

October 18th 2012

Nancy L. Lewis, MD, from the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, discusses the phase III CORRECT trial that examined the multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor regorafenib.

Dr. Tripathy on the Updated EMILIA T-DM1 Trial Results

October 15th 2012

Debu Tripathy, MD, from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses results from the phase III EMILIA trial that examined the T-DM1 for women with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Dr. Cohen on the Cabozantinib Dosage and Tolerability

October 4th 2012

Ezra Cohen, MD, from the University of Chicago Medical Center, discusses the impact of cabozantinib's dose size on tolerability.

Photos From the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress

October 3rd 2012

Photos from the 2012 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) congress, held at the Austria Center Vienna from September 28 to October 2, in Vienna, Austria.

In Refractory GIST, Regorafenib Delays Disease Progression Across All Subgroups

October 3rd 2012

Regorafenib significantly delays disease progression in virtually all subgroups of patients with GIST in the second-line setting, and may even confer benefits when continued after progression.

Long-Term Data Show Significant Improvement in Survival With Ipilimumab in Melanoma

October 3rd 2012

Nearly twice as many patients with metastatic melanoma who received a combination of ipilimumab and dacarbazine were alive after four years, suggesting that ipilimumab has long-term survival benefits.