Another post about news from the ASCO conference. Kids who kicked cancer to the curb in the early 1990s and were alive five years later were more than twice as likely to still be alive fifteen years after diagnosis than their early 1970s counterparts, a new study finds. Researchers analyzing records of 34,043 five-year pediatric (peds) cancer […]
Category: world of cancer
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) just wound up its annual meeting, held this year in Chicago. Doctors presented many fascinating clinical trial results to those in attendance. Though I wasn’t there, I’ve been reading news stories coming out of the meeting, details of which I’d like to share in some posts. Nearly 60 percent […]