Oncology News

Maia Matteson and Kelly Geerdes, vacationing from Colorado, slap on the Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion Tuesday overlooking Cowell Beach.

EMD Serono, Inc., a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the initiation of an international Phase II study designed to assess the efficacy and safety of MSB0010718C, an investigational fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody that binds to programmed death-ligand 1 .

Research Triangle Park's CivaTech Oncology raised $1.5 million in a new round and doubled the target for this latest round to $2 million.

Years ago, journalists who had breast cancer fought with words to inform other women with breast cancer that, in many cases, they didn't need a mastectomy.

Becker's Hospital Review has named Loyola University Medical Center to its 2014 edition of "100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs," a compilation of organizations that are leading the way in quality patient care, cancer outcomes and research.

Pfizer Inc , which in May officially abandoned its bid to buy British rival AstraZeneca Plc, reported higher-than-expected second-quarter revenue, helped by growing demand for its cancer medicines.

Pfizer Inc, which in May officially abandoned its bid to buy British rival AstraZeneca Plc, reported higher-than-expected second-quarter earnings, helped by growing sales of its cancer medicines.

A Sheffield cancer expert has given a cautious welcome to a new breast cancer treatment which promises to replace long radiotherapy sessions with a single, targeted shot.

WCA Hospital officials announ-ced the hospital has been awarded a three-year term of reaccreditation in Posi-tron Emission Tomography as the result of an extensive review by the American College of Radiology.

A photograph that looks totally fine could reveal a potentially deadly cancer. It's a tiny white spot in the eye, that most people wouldn't even notice.

Today, 12 years ago, my life's priorities changed dramatically when my wife's doctor uttered three words, "you have cancer."

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After removing a tumor, surgeons are confronted with an unfortunate reality: they can't be sure they got it all.

Well ahead of schedule, the US Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved use of Imbruvica to treat patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who carry a deletion in chromosome 17 , associated with poor responses to standard treatment for CLL.

One of the main measures of the French national cancer plan is to encourage physicians to work collectively, and to minimize territorial inequities in access to care by rethinking the geographical distribution of oncologists.

A new study, published in the July, 2014, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute by Northwestern Medicine- researchers, sheds new light on the risks associated with the growing popularity of endoscopic resection in the treatment of localized, early-stage esophageal cancer .

FullScale deployments take advantage of virtualization and cloud technologies to deploy Varian software -- both the ARIA oncology information system and Eclipse treatment planning -- centrally, in a way that is flexible, scalable, and widely accessible.

A large donation of warm hats is heading to cancer patients, thanks to knitters and crocheters based at the United Church of Clinton.

Often they left their Dunmore home at about 4:30 a.m., with Kelcey in the back seat and enough clothes for the weeklong hotel stay.

Hematolgist/oncologist Manish Dhawan's Medicare payments totaled slightly more than $5 million that year, according to data the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid released earlier this year.