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A UK oncologist offers insights into cancer care and balancing treatments to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence against COVID-19. Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, a part of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, shares advice on how to provide optimal cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PBS adds nivolumab, an adjuvant immunotherapy treatment used for patients with melanoma after surgery.

WEHI and Stanford University use mass cytometry, a new technique, to understand how key proteins react to treatment combinations in cancer cells.

PeterMac prostate cancer trial used molecular imaging to determine better ways to tailor treatments.

 
Monday 16 March - Monday 23 March
Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Mar 23, 2020  6:0
Results from a randomised controlled trial – the ProPSMA Study - involving 300 prostate cancer patients find that a molecular imaging...
Molecular imaging could transform management of patients with aggressive prostate cancer
 
The Medical News • Mar 20, 2020  15:17
A study conducted by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated acceptable toxicity and anti-tumor...
A study conducted by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated acceptable toxicity...
 
The Medical News • Mar 20, 2020  6:27
A revolutionary new technology has been applied to reveal the inner workings of individual cancer cells - potentially identifying more...
treatment combinations for people with cancer. A joint Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Stanford University team used a...
 
The Guardian • Mar 19, 2020  23:43
How do we choose between under-treating vulnerable cancer patients and potentially exposing them to Covid-19?
Coronavirus means difficult, life-changing decisions for me and my cancer patients
 
The Medical News • Mar 19, 2020  7:45
Experts from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA)- a Member Institution of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)- are...
How to continue providing optimal cancer care during novel coronavirus pandemic
 
The Medical News • Mar 18, 2020  3:1
A key characteristic of cancer cells is their ability to uncontrollably grow and divide at excessive rates, proliferating and invading...
Changes in cellular degradation hubs can lead to cancer
 
The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Mar 17, 2020  12:25
After surgery to remove melanoma from her lymph nodes, Brisbane woman Helen Reber was ready to get on with her life...
Drug on PBS gives melanoma survivors hope to close door on cancer
 
The Medical News • Mar 17, 2020  11:31
Preclinical trials indicate that a drug candidate called OxaliTex can stop the growth of cancer cells completely. OxaliTex appears to be...
Trial of cancer drug OxaliTex promises lower toxicity and more robust action