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  • New Treatments may Improve Outcomes for AL Amyloidosis Patients: AL amyloidosis-a rare, potentially fatal disease-has no approved treatments. The ''standard'' treatments are prescribed off-label, and few clinical trials have compared their effectiveness
  • Dialog: Screening Mammography Reduces Breast Cancer-Related deaths
  • 'Sleeping Beauty'' Technique Modifies T Cells to Treat B Cell Malignancies: A novel technique that helps the patient's own immune system find and destroy cancer cells could extend remission times for patients with B cell lymphomas and leukemias
  • INBRIEF: Analysis Suggests Need to Revise Low-Grade Glioma Classification, Treatment/Combination of Antiangiogenic Drugs Shows Activity Against Solid Tumors/ Computed Tomography Predicts Chemotherapy Response in Pancreatic Cancer
  • Screening Mammography for Breast Cancer Saves Lives: MD Anderson recommends most women being screening mammography at age 40

Publication Date

5-1-2014

Publisher

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

City

Houston, Texas

Keywords

Orlowski, Robert; Shah, Jatin; Bevers, Therese; Kebriaei, Partow; Cooper, Laurence J. N.; Hosing, Chitra M.; Shpall, Elizabeth; Verhaak, Roeland; Hong, David S.; Fleming, Jason; Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis; Clinical Trials as Topic; Mammography; Breast Neoplasms; Lymphoma, B-Cell; Leukemia, B-Cell; Receptors, Chimeric Antigen; Immunotherapy, Adoptive; Glioma; Glioblastoma; Angiogenesis Inhibitors; Sarcoma; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Antineoplastic Agents.

Disciplines

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology

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OncoLog, Volume 59, Number 05, May 2014

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