Metformin May Not Improve Pancreatic Cancer Survival
Metformin, a common drug for type II diabetes, did not improve the survival of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
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Metformin, a common drug for type II diabetes, did not improve the survival of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
This slide show features some of the top highlights from the 2015 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting.
MM-302 showed encouraging efficacy results and a manageable safety profile in heavily pretreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients.
In this interview with ONCOLOGY Editor-in-Chief Nancy Davidson, MD, we dive into the “gray area” of breast biopsies and how the oncology community can meet this challenge. Dr. Davidson, AACR’s president-elect, also discusses the changes she has seen during her career with regard to how cancer patients are treated and looks forward during this optimistic time in treatment and research.
Inhibition of PD-1 with pembrolizumab was well tolerated and showed promising survival results in a large phase I trial of patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
The HPV 16/18 vaccine protects women from cervical, anal, and oral HPV infections that can lead to cancer, including some women previously exposed to HPV.
Combination treatment with the PARP inhibitor olaparib plus the PI3K inhibitor BKM120 showed a benefit in subsets of breast cancer and ovarian cancer patients.
Men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer that had mutations in DNA repair genes were more likely to respond to the PARP inhibitor olaparib.
Women who spend less time eating each day and an increased amount of hours fasting overnight had a decreased risk of breast cancer.
In an ongoing study, the immunotherapy MPDL3280A continues to be well-tolerated and to show signs of activity in triple-negative breast cancer patients.
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