UCI Health is the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, and the only academic health system based in Orange County. UCI Health is comprised of its main campus, UCI Medical Center, a 459-bed, acute care hospital in in Orange, Calif., four hospitals and affiliated physicians of the UCI Health Community Network in Orange and Los Angeles counties and ambulatory care centers across the region. Listed among America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years, UCI Medical Center provides tertiary and quaternary care and is home to Orange County’s only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, high-risk perinatal/neonatal program and American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, gold level 1 geriatric emergency department and regional burn center. UCI Health serves a region of nearly 4 million people in Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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June 06, 2022
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Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab prolonged progression-free survival and overall survival in key subgroups of patients with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer, displaying benefits similar to those seen in the broader patient population.
August 13, 2021
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The majority of patients with newly diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukemia have better outcomes with BTK inhibitors compared with standard chemoimmunotherapy, making them the logical choice for frontline therapy.
June 18, 2019
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Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou, MD, PhD, Health Science Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, Irvine, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, discusses the FDA approval of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in small cell lung cancer (SCLC).
June 07, 2019
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Sai-Hong I. Ou, MD, PhD, professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, discusses investigational KRAS inhibitors in lung cancer.
May 23, 2019
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Sai-Hong I. Ou, MD, PhD, discusses the status of different mutations in lung cancer and the work being done to bring clinically meaningful treatments to the space.
May 22, 2019
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Sai-Hong I. Ou, MD, highlights the conveniences of liquid biopsies relative to tissue biopsies, as well as current drawbacks to their use in detecting targetable alterations in lung cancer.
March 29, 2019
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The frontline combination of fulvestrant and anastrozole resulted in a sustained benefit in progression-free survival and a significant improvement in overall survival compared with anastrozole alone in patients with postmenopausal, HR–positive metastatic breast cancer, according to long-term results of the SWOG S0226 trial.
August 10, 2018
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Susan M. O'Brien, MD, discusses some of the latest intriguing data in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and what this means for physicians and patients.
May 05, 2018
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Sai-Hong I. Ou, MD, professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, discusses the use of crizotinib (Xalkori) in the treatment of patients with ROS1-rearranged non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
January 20, 2017
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It was little more than 3 years ago that ibrutinib became the first Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor to gain the FDA’s approval with a second-line indication for patients with mantle cell lymphoma.
August 11, 2016
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Susan M. O'Brien, MD, associate director for Clinical Science for the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, medical director of the Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials and Research, UC Irvine Health, discusses how ibrutinib (Imbruvica) compares with chemoimmunotherapy as a frontline treatment for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
June 01, 2016
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Susan M. O'Brien, MD, discusses upcoming novel treatments in relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia, such as the next generation of inhibition with BTK, SYK, and PI3K, as well as the outcomes of the recent RESONATE-2 trial.
August 26, 2015
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Susan M. O'Brien, MD, discusses the impact and the future outlook for idelalisib and ibrutinib in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
September 16, 2014
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Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou, MD, PhD, Health Science Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, Irvine, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, discusses data on alectinib as treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with brain metastases.