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Annual Meeting Daily News Podcasts – June 2nd, 2007

  • in ASCO · Oncology
  • — 4 Jun, 2007
Ben Slotman
Ben Slotman
Roy Herbst
Roy Herbst

Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation: Fewer Brain Metastases, Longer Survival for Patients with Small Cell Lung Cancer

REFERENCE: ABSTRACT 4, ASCO Annual Meeting Chicago June 1-5, 2007
BEN SLOTMAN, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam
COMMENT: ROY HERBST, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

Any patient with small cell lung cancer responding to chemotherapy should now be offered prophylactic cranial irradiation, according to the findings of a study from the Netherlands reported to the Plenary Session of the ASCO meeting. Ben Slotman told Peter Goodwin about the results showing a two-thirds reduction of brain metastases and a near doubling of the number of patients surviving one year.

Bayard Powell
Bayard Powell
Dean Bajorin
Dean Bajorin

Arsenic Trioxide Improves Survival for Patients with Newly Diagnosed Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

REFERENCE: ABSTRACT 2, ASCO Annual Meeting Chicago June 1-5, 2007
BAYARD POWELL, Wake Forest University, NC
COMMENT: DEAN BAJORIN, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Newly diagnosed patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia benefit from having arsenic trioxide added to their standard all-trans retinoic acid and chemotherapy. This is according to a 500-patient study from North Carolina presented at the ASCO meeting. Bayard Powell told Sarah Maxwell his group’s latest findings from the study.

Ehab Atallah
Ehab Atallah

Dean Bajorin
Dean Bajorin

Dasatinib Activity in First Line Treatment For Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

REFERENCE: ABSTRACT 7005, ASCO Annual Meeting Chicago June 1-5, 2007
EHAB ATALLAH, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
COMMENT: DEAN BAJORIN, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia could soon have a new option for first line therapy. Dasatinib has outperformed imatinib in the laboratory, and is already approved for patients who fail imatinib. Now, it’s been tried in a phase II study involving 31 patients with chronic phase CML. Ehab Atallah of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston discussed the latest data with Derek Thorne.

Elias Jabbour
Elias Jabbour

Nilotinib for Patients with Imatinib-Intolerant Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia in Chronic Phase

REFERENCE: ABSTRACT 7039, ASCO Annual Meeting Chicago June 1-5, 2007
ELIAS JABBOUR, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia who are intolerant to imatinib because of adverse events were mostly found to tolerate an alternative tyrosine kinase inhibitor, nilotinib. This was in a study from Texas looking at the use of nilotinib in patients who had failed first-line imatinib therapy either because of resistance or intolerance. ASCO 2007 Merit Award-winner Elias Jabbour told Peter Goodwin about the latest findings.

Peter Wiernik
Peter Wiernik

Lenalidomide Benefits Patients with Relapsed Refractory Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

REFERENCE: ABSTRACT 8052, ASCO Annual Meeting Chicago June 1-5, 2007
PETER WIERNIK, New York Medical College
Patients with aggressive relapsed, refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have responded to monotherapy with lenalidomide. That’s the finding of a small study reported to the ASCO meeting in Chicago. Peter Wiernik gave the details to Peter Goodwin at a poster session of the conference.

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