Posted: December 2018 Fred R. Hirsch, MD, resigned from his position of IASLC CEO at the end of October and has joined Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City as […] Read more
By John Armstrong, MD, FRCPI, DABR, FFRRCSI Posted: December 2018 RTOG 0214, a phase III randomized trial, is the biggest trial to date testing prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) in locally […] Read more
FDA Approval Processes in the Era of Targeted Therapies: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Pazdur
Posted: December 2018 Richard Pazdur, MD, is director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Oncology Center of Excellence. Below, he discusses the current status of and future directions […] Read more
Posted: December 2018 In the following interview, Vassiliki A. Papadimitrakopoulou, MD, Jay and Lori Eisenberg Distinguished Professor of Medicine and section chief of Thoracic Medical Oncology at the University of […] Read more
By Sanja Dacic, MD, PhD, and Douglas J. Hartman, MD Posted: December 2018 The pathology community initially showed resistance to digital pathology implementation in routine practice mostly because of pathologists’ […] Read more
By Ross Soo, MB BS, PhD, FRACP Posted: December 2018 The treatment of patients with advanced NSCLC harbouring an actionable oncogene with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) directed at its oncogenic […] Read more
By C.A.I.R.O Journal Club Executive Board Posted: December 2018 Egypt faced major turmoil in 2011, with subsequent dramatic political changes and a rapidly developing economic crises that, within a few […] Read more
By Mariano Provencio-Pulla, MD, PhD Posted: December 2018 Patients with stage IIIA NSCLC with clinically evident N2 nodal spread have an overall 5-year survival rate of only 10% to 15%. […] Read more
NCI Corner: Racial Differences in the Transcriptomes of Lung Tumors
Posted: December 2018 Investigators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) compared the transcriptional profiles of lung cancers from African American patients to those from white patients and identified molecular differences […] Read more
By Edgardo S. Santos Castillero, MD, FACP Posted: December 2018 Five abstracts were presented at the Presidential Symposium of the 2018 IASLC Latin America Conference on Lung Cancer, held in […] Read more