Slide Show: 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Conference|American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (ASCO)

This slide show highlights some of the top studies and news on cancer to come out of the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held in Chicago.

References:

1. Garcia-Albeniz X, Chan JM, Paciorek AT, et al. Immediate versus deferred initiation of androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer patients with PSA-only relapse. 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; Abstract 5003.

2. Pagani O, Regan MM, Walley B, et al. Randomized comparison of adjuvant aromatase inhibitor (AI) exemestane (E) plus ovarian function suppression (OFS) vs tamoxifen (T) plus OFS in premenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive (HR+) early breast cancer (BC): Joint analysis of IBCSG TEXT and SOFT trials. 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; Abstract LBA1.

3. Piccart-Gebhart MJ, Holmes AP, Baselga J, et al. First results from the phase III ALTTO trial (BIG 2-06; NCCTG [Alliance] N063D) comparing one year of anti-HER2 therapy with lapatinib alone (L), trastuzumab alone (T), their sequence (T→L), or their combination (T+L) in the adjuvant treatment of HER2-positive early breast cancer (EBC). 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; Abstract LBA4.

4. Moore HCF, Unger JM, Phillips K-A, et al. Phase III trial (Prevention of Early Menopause Study [POEMS]-SWOG S0230) of LHRH analog during chemotherapy (CT) to reduce ovarian failure in early-stage, hormone receptor-negative breast cancer: An international Intergroup trial of SWOG, IBCSG, ECOG, and CALGB (Alliance). 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; Abstract LBA505.

5. Hortobagyi GN, Lipton A, Chew HK, et al. Efficacy and safety of continued zoledronic acid every 4 weeks versus every 12 weeks in women with bone metastases from breast cancer: Results of the OPTIMIZE-2 trial. 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; Abstract LBA9500.

6. Hinrichs CS, Stevanovic S, Draper L, et al. HPV-targeted tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes for cervical cancer. 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; Abstract LBA3008.

7. Eggermont AM, Chiarion-Sileni V, Grob JJ, et al. Ipilimumab versus placebo after complete resection of stage III melanoma: Initial efficacy and safety results from the EORTC 18071 phase III trial. 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; Abstract LBA9008.

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