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ASCO Spotlights Ovarian, Breast Cancer Studies Ahead of June Meeting
ASCO Spotlights Ovarian, Breast Cancer Studies Ahead of June Meeting
B McManus
20100424
2010 May 24
The Gray Sheet
ASCO Spotlights Ovarian, Breast Cancer Studies Ahead of June Meeting
The Gray Sheet. 2010 May 24, B McManus
A study assessing a new ovarian cancer screening strategy and another suggesting certain early stage breast cancer patients can forego radiation therapy were highlighted last week by the American Society of Clinical Oncology ahead of its annual meeting June 4-8 in Chicago. ASCO unveiled abstracts from those studies as well as four drug trials during a May 20 press briefing.One study, lead by Karen Lu, M.D., University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, provides early evidence for a general-population...