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ESMO 2019: Translating Science into Better Cancer Care

The field of oncology has seen a number of significant advances in recent years. The considerable number of positive reports from the 2019 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) last month clearly reflected the meeting’s theme — the translation of scientific advances into better cancer care.   AstraZeneca/Merck was one of stars...

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News from ASCO: Part 1 

As we previously wrote, ASCO’s focus this year was on driving the benefits of precision medicine approaches in oncology to more patients. This was reflected in several ways in the news coming out of the conference, including:   Progress Against Important, Difficult-to-Target Biomarkers   The ASCO news was particularly good this year for patients with...

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New Gains in Frontline Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Each spring, those of us who watch the oncology space turn our attention to two big U.S. meetings for the latest research news: the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) annual scientific meeting, held in April, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), which will take place in June. AACR previously focused primarily on...