A British Medical Research Council trial has adjusted its design so that benefits for chemotherapy in colorectal cancer can be better evaluated in frail and elderly patients. Medscape Medical News
Levels of serum interleukin-7 can accurately predict the risk of graft-vs-host disease in patients undergoing an allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplant. Medscape Medical News
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has named Luca Gianni, MD, the recipient of the 2011 Gianni Bonadonna Breast Cancer Award and Lecture. br / iMedscape Medical News/i
Patients who become resistant to imatinib treatment often develop secondary mutations. Study authors sought to determine why threonine is always replaced by isoleucine. Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Consolidation treatment with radioactive yttrium-90 ibritumomab tiuxetan is feasible, well tolerated, and effective in untreated patients with follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Medscape Medical News