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News

Everolimus Too Costly, Survival Data Insufficient, Says NICE

Elsevier Global Medical News, 2010 Feb 9, J Smith

The clinical effectiveness agency for England and Wales has published draft guidance opposing everolimus as a second-line treatment for advanced renal cell carcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer,...

NICE Draft Opposes Pemetrexed for Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Elsevier Global Medical News, 2009 Dec 18, J Smith

The clinical effectiveness agency for England and Wales has issued draft guidance opposing use of pemetrexed as a maintenance treatment for people with locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung...

NICE Draft Backs Rituximab for Relapsed or Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Elsevier Global Medical News, 2009 Nov 11, J Gardner

Rituximab would be authorized to treat relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia in combination with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide under a draft guideline published by the clinical effectiveness...

AstraZeneca Takes Hint From Regulators in Pulling Zactima Applications for NSCLC

The Pink Sheet Daily, 2009 Oct 28, MJ Laffler

Signs that progression-free survival data would not be sufficient to support approval of Zactima (vandetanib) in advanced non–small cell lung cancer led AstraZeneca to pull the regulatory submissions for...

Conferences

ESMO Conference Lugano

Lugano, Switzerland,July 3, 2008 to July 6, 2008

20th Meeting of the European Society for Cancer Research

Lyon, France,July 5, 2008 to July 8, 2008

The UICC World Cancer Congress

Geneva, Switzerland,August 27, 2008 to August 31, 2008

14th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology

The Hague, Netherlands,September 10, 2008 to September 12, 2008

ESMO Congress 2008

Stockholm, Sweden,September 12, 2008 to September 16, 2008

ESTRO 27

Göteborg, Sweden,September 14, 2008 to September 18, 2008

Perspectives in Melanoma XII

The Hague, Netherlands,October 2, 2008 to October 4, 2008

The 2008 NCRI Cancer Conference

Birmingham, UK,October 5, 2008 to October 8, 2008

The 8th International Conference of Anticancer Research

Kos, Greece,October 17, 2008 to October 22, 2008

20th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

Geneva, Switzerland,October 21, 2008 to October 24, 2008
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2008 Top Stories

To mark our first anniversary, an expert panel chose the year's top oncology stories. See what the experts picked, and choose your own top story.

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  • Endocrine System
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