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The variety of treatment options available to patients of all ages who have multiple myeloma has improved considerably in the past decade. However, elderly patients have benefited more than patients of other ages. Because elderly patients, as a group, are usually not offered autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) as a treatment option, they have been unable to benefit from the wide application of this technique, first introduced in the late 1980s. In the past 8 years, however, thalidomide, bortezomib, and very recently lenalidomide, when combined with conventional doses of alkylators and corticosteroids, have produced marked improvements in progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in elderly patients. Harousseau has thoroughly reviewed the important studies documenting these benefits for this population.

David S. Alberts, MD, director of Tucson’s Arizona Cancer Center, is honored by the Association of Community Cancer Centers. Learn more about the latest accolades and appointments in cancer care.

The United States is unique in the developed world in that the majority of Americans have private health insurance that they receive through the workplace.

Researchers find that patients lacking private health insurance or are poor or black fare worse than other cancer patients.

Second-Guessing FDA: CMS’ Expanding Regulatory Role

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule that clarifies what safety information must be reported during clinical trials of investigational drugs and biologics.

Medicare only covers 57% of the actual costs of delivering chemotherapy and provided related infusion room services to seniors with cancer: Watch this important video: Cancer Care is in Crisis: Stop The Cancer Care Cuts

The Oregon Health Plan was considered by many to be a masterpiece of health care delivery for the poor. It attracted international attention when its plan of explicit rationing of care promised to provide basic health care to virtually every Oregonian living in poverty. Did the plan live up to its promise?

The regulatory agency isn’t represented on the board of governors of the new Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

The skin eruptions that plague most patients on EGFR inhibitor therapy and disrupt treatment in some may occur in two recognizable stages, which could have implications for both research and treatment.

It establishes a menu of preventive procedures, like colonoscopies, mammograms and immunizations that must be covered without co-payments.

E board review in Breast Cancer February 2008 Word from Editor

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