immunotherapy

  • January 31, 2022  

    NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Small Cell Lung Cancer Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    The nonprofit National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) publishes guidelines for patients to learn more about their diagnosis and their treatment options. Here is their 2022 update for small cell lung cancer.

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  • January 31, 2022  

    NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Cervical Cancer Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    The nonprofit National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) publishes guidelines for patients to learn more about their diagnosis and their treatment options. Here is their 2022 update for cervical cancer.

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  • January 31, 2022  

    NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Kidney Cancer Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    The nonprofit National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) publishes guidelines for patients to learn more about their diagnosis and their treatment options. Here is their 2022 update for kidney cancer.

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  • September 10, 2021  

    How an Expert Would Treat Her Own Metastatic Melanoma

    With: Pauline Funchain, MD

    Cancer patients often ask their doctors, “What would you do if you were me?” Here, our Curious Dr. George asks Cleveland Clinic oncologist Pauline Funchain, MD, how she would handle her own diagnosis of advanced melanoma. Curious Dr. George: What would you do if you personally were discovered on a routine exam to have abnormal liver function tests that led to scans and the… Read more »

  • July 28, 2021  

    New Approvals for Liver Cancer Mark ‘Golden Age’ of Treatment Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    Reported in Healio: After decades of little or no progress, many new clinical trials testing targeted and immunotherapy drugs—especially in combinations—are showing that they have real value in treating primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma).

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  • July 28, 2021  

    2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    Researchers at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) reported substantial advances in treatment for advanced esophageal, castration-resistant prostate, and metastatic nasopharyngeal cancers.

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  • November 24, 2020  

    For Esophageal Cancer, Immunotherapy Likely to Play Larger Role Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    A blog post from the National Cancer Institute reports that two clinical trials are showing encouraging results for progression-free survival—and one for overall survival—from treatment with immunotherapy drugs in people with advanced esophageal cancer. 

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  • October 22, 2020  

    ESMO 2019: Immunotherapy in Cervical and Endometrial Cancers Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    Article from The ASCO Post curated by Contributing Editor George Lundberg, MD, who notes: 

    Recent clinical trial results show that immunotherapy—a type of treatment that boosts the immune system to fight cancer—provided long-lasting, improved outcomes for patients with advanced cervical or endometrial cancer. These are important findings for difficult-to-treat cancers.

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  • October 8, 2020  

    Preliminary Results of Two Large Immune Therapy Studies Show Promise in Advanced Cervical Cancer Bookmark

    George Lundberg, MD

    Press release from Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center curated by Contributing Editor George Lundberg, MD.

    This press release outlines promising preliminary results from two phase 2 clinical trials testing the drug balstilimab alone or in combination with zalifrelimab.

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  • September 9, 2020  

    Is Cancer the Best Way to Die?

    With: Richard Smith, CBE, FMedSci

    In 2014, the prestigious medical research journal The BMJ published a controversial piece called “Dying of cancer is the best death.” Here, our Curious Dr. George asks the author of that piece, Richard Smith, CBE, FMedSci, if and how his thoughts on death have since evolved. Dr. Smith was Editor of The BMJ from 1991 to 2004 and is currently Chair of the Lancet Commission… Read more »