At ASCO 2017, two trials tackled important surgical questions in ovarian cancer management, with the potential to eventually change practice, according to Dr Maurie Markman.
Dr Peter Bach attributes the high cost of cancer drugs to the pharmaceutical industry's 'government-granted monopoly pricing power,' saying that benefit to patients is not commensurate with price.
Dr Laura Esserman discusses the ground-breaking I-SPY breast cancer research platform and its most 'exciting' results to date, indicating that pembrolizumab triples pCR in TNBC.
Study author Dr Susan Domchek discusses the positive results of the OlympiAD trial, presented at the ASCO plenary session, indicating olaparib as a strong option in metastatic breast cancer.
Dr John Marshall reports on the practice-changing results of the IDEA study in stage III colorectal cancer looking at duration of adjuvant chemotherapy, as presented at the ASCO plenary session.
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