February 2007 Oncology News International

The FDA has approved alectinib for the adjuvant treatment of patients with ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer with tumors that are least 4 cm or node positive, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

Experts discuss findings related to gastrointestinal cancer outcomes as well as treatment inequalities presented at the 2024 SSO Annual Meeting.

In clinically node-positive breast cancer, clipping of lymph nodes may induce higher rates of sentinel lymph node surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Leaders in genitourinary oncology spoke about key research advances as well as personal experiences in navigating the field.

“If you were to ask me what the 1 magic thing would be, it would be that we would adopt a concept of 1 team, one fight nationally, and that we would be able to have our structures and our coordination of care.”

Results from the INSITE trial support the utility of pegulicianine fluorescence-guided surgery during breast cancer surgery.