Latest Conference Articles

November 15th 2016, 2:25am

AASLD Liver Meeting

Aldo J. Montano-Loza, MD, MSc, PhD, associate professor of medicine, program director of hepatology, gastroenterology rotation supervisor, University of Alberta, discusses the link between high visceral adipose tissue and hepatocellular carcinoma risk in patients with cirrhosis.

November 15th 2016, 2:10am

AASLD Liver Meeting

Treatment with direct-acting antiviral therapy did not increase the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

November 15th 2016, 1:59am

AASLD Liver Meeting

A new system for gauging the probability for hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence following liver transplant surgery has proved successful.

November 15th 2016, 1:28am

PER® New York Lung Cancer Symposium

Balazs Halmos, MD, director, Thoracic Oncology, director, Clinical Cancer Genomics, Montefiore Medical Center, discusses the prevalence of MET mutations in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

November 15th 2016, 1:05am

AASLD Liver Meeting

Naveed Zafar Janjua, MBBS, MSc, DrPH, senior scientist, clinical prevention services, BC Centre for Disease Control and clinical associate professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, discusses the findings from the British Columbia hepatitis testers cohort, which looked at the impact of hepatitis infection on long term risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

November 15th 2016, 12:56am

PER® New York Lung Cancer Symposium

H. Jack West, MD, a thoracic oncologist of Swedish Cancer Institute at Swedish Medical Center, discusses factors he takes into consideration for EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients who have EGFR-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

November 14th 2016, 5:17am

AASLD Liver Meeting

There has been renewed optimism in hepatocellular carcinoma with regorafenib, a novel second-line agent that is currently being considered for approval by the FDA.

November 14th 2016, 5:04am

AASLD Liver Meeting

Following on their impressive success in the treatment of several other tumor types, immune-based therapies are being studied in clinical trials for hepatocellular carcinoma and are showing promising signals of efficacy.

November 14th 2016, 4:07am

AASLD Liver Meeting

Similar recurrence-free survival was demonstrated with radiofrequency ablation using percutaneous and laparoscopic methods for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who were eligible for ablation.

November 14th 2016, 3:53am

AASLD Liver Meeting

Tim F. Greten, MD, senior investigator thoracic and gastrointestinal oncology branch, head, gastrointestinal malignancy section, National Cancer Institute (NCI), discusses the potential for immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

November 13th 2016, 10:19pm

AASLD Liver Meeting

Hashem El-Serag, MD, MPH, medicine-gastroenterology, Baylor College of Medicine, discusses the relationship between nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

November 13th 2016, 6:27am

AASLD Liver Meeting

The use of immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer is progressively increasing with a flood of recent approvals for immune checkpoint inhibitors directed against CTLA-4 and PD-1.

November 13th 2016, 5:21am

AASLD Liver Meeting

Hepatocellular carcinoma‎ incidence continues to rise among patients with hepatitis B despite improvements in antiviral therapies, stressing the importance of screening and surveillance in this population.

November 13th 2016, 4:55am

AASLD Liver Meeting

​George N. Ioannou, MD, associate professor, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses a study evaluating the effectiveness of direct antiviral agents for hepatitis C virus patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

November 13th 2016, 4:36am

SITC Meeting

Pembrolizumab monotherapy reduced the risk of death by 27% compared with chemotherapy for patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma whose disease progressed after prior treatment.

November 13th 2016, 4:22am

SITC Meeting

The combination of lirilumab and nivolumab resulted in an objective response rate of 24.1% in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

November 13th 2016, 3:41am

PER® New York Lung Cancer Symposium

Individualizing frontline therapy for patients with non–small cell lung cancer based on preferences and clinical experience, as well as efficacy and safety data from pivotal trials, is an appropriate method for selecting EGFR-targeted agents.

November 13th 2016, 3:28am

PER® New York Lung Cancer Symposium

The treatment landscape for patients with ALK-rearranged non–small cell lung cancer is changing rapidly, gearing up the potential for more therapeutic options to address the heterogeneity of the mechanism of resistance in this population.

November 13th 2016, 3:20am

PER® New York Lung Cancer Symposium

Roman Perez-Soler, MD, chairman of the Department of Oncology and chief of the Division of Medical Oncology at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, discusses the impact of osimertinib (Tagrisso) on patients with T790M-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

November 13th 2016, 3:03am

PER® New York Lung Cancer Symposium

Anne Chiang, MD, PhD, professor and thoracic oncologist at Yale Cancer Center, discusses molecular testing in lung cancer and how it affects treatment decisions.