September 2008 Oncology News International

Publication
Article

Cover Story

The surgeon who challenged the breast ca paradigm

Payer's budget to get right targeted drug to right patient

New paradigm in pancreatic cancer promotes coordinated patient care

DEPARTMENTS

Focus on Breast Cancer

In elderly with early breast ca, stick with standard chemo

Herceptin erases survival difference between HER2- patients

Focus on Colon Cancer

Adding oxaliplatin to FULV trends toward better survival in stage II/III colon cancer

News & Analysis

Reimbursement for new RT lags behind implementation

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cfDNA sequencing may allow for more accessible, frequent, and sensitive testing compared with standard surveillance in Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
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STX-478 showed efficacy in patients with advanced solid tumors regardless of whether they had kinase domain or helical PI3K mutations.
Lisa J. States, MD, discussed further steps for improving early detection and screening methods in patients with Li–Fraumeni syndrome.
STX-478 may avoid adverse effects associated with prior PI3K inhibitors that lack selectivity for the mutated protein vs the wild-type protein.
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