Clinical Trial Results - Progress in Cancer Care
These summaries highlight recently released results from cancer clinical trials. The findings are significant enough that they are likely to influence your medical care.
The summaries are listed in reverse chronological order. You may also use the navigation tools on the left to search the summaries by keyword or type of cancer.
Depression Management Effective in Low-Income Hispanic Cancer Patients
(Posted: 11/20/2008) - A collaborative-care intervention to treat depression in cancer patients was more effective than usual care in relieving symptoms of depression among low-income Hispanics, according to the Sept. 20, 2008, Journal of Clinical Oncology.
High Dose Chemotherapy Significantly Prolongs Survival for Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
(Posted: 11/17/2008) - Preliminary results from a large, randomized clinical trial for patients ages 16 to 60 with previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, show that patients who received a high dose of a commercially available chemotherapy drug, daunorubicin, during initial therapy lived longer than patients who received a standard dose of the same drug.
No Survival Benefit from Adjuvant Chemo in Stage 1B NSCLC
(Posted: 10/30/2008) - The paclitaxel-plus-carboplatin adjuvant chemotherapy regimen offers no survival benefit to patients with stage 1B non-small-cell lung cancer, according to a report published online September 22, 2008, in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Study Suggests New Options for Follicular Lymphoma
(Posted: 10/30/2008) - Treatment with a radiolabeled monoclonal antibody appears to be highly effective as consolidation after first-line therapy in patients with indolent, advanced-stage follicular lymphoma, according to the October 14, 2008, Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Drug Combination Cuts Risk of Advanced Colon Polyps
(Posted: 04/21/2008, Updated: 10/19/2008) - Low doses of two chemopreventive agents are highly effective at preventing the recurrence of the lesions that are often precursors to colorectal cancer, according to results presented at the 2008 American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting.
(Posted: 11/20/2008) - A collaborative-care intervention to treat depression in cancer patients was more effective than usual care in relieving symptoms of depression among low-income Hispanics, according to the Sept. 20, 2008, Journal of Clinical Oncology.
High Dose Chemotherapy Significantly Prolongs Survival for Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
(Posted: 11/17/2008) - Preliminary results from a large, randomized clinical trial for patients ages 16 to 60 with previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, show that patients who received a high dose of a commercially available chemotherapy drug, daunorubicin, during initial therapy lived longer than patients who received a standard dose of the same drug.
No Survival Benefit from Adjuvant Chemo in Stage 1B NSCLC
(Posted: 10/30/2008) - The paclitaxel-plus-carboplatin adjuvant chemotherapy regimen offers no survival benefit to patients with stage 1B non-small-cell lung cancer, according to a report published online September 22, 2008, in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Study Suggests New Options for Follicular Lymphoma
(Posted: 10/30/2008) - Treatment with a radiolabeled monoclonal antibody appears to be highly effective as consolidation after first-line therapy in patients with indolent, advanced-stage follicular lymphoma, according to the October 14, 2008, Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Drug Combination Cuts Risk of Advanced Colon Polyps
(Posted: 04/21/2008, Updated: 10/19/2008) - Low doses of two chemopreventive agents are highly effective at preventing the recurrence of the lesions that are often precursors to colorectal cancer, according to results presented at the 2008 American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting.
