Chemotherapy can improve long-term survival in women with estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer; results of a meta-analysis found that this was true even for chemotherapy regimens used 20 to 30 years ago. Medscape Medical News
Pivotal presentations from the AACR 100th Annual Meeting 2009 are reviewed, with discussion of scientific findings and their effect on clinical practices and ongoing clinical trials. Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics
Pancreatic cancer remains the deadliest of cancer, but new approaches that improve the delivery of drugs to the tumor appear to hold promise. Medscape Medical News
Is anti-TNF-alpha therapy in rheumatoid arthritis associated with increased risk for cancer? A large-scale longitudinal Swedish registry study says no. Medscape Rheumatology
In his video blog, Dr. Maurie Markman observes that use of chemoradiation in cervical cancer illustrates uptake of strongly evidence-based recommendations by community doctors. Medscape Hematology-Oncology