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OncoLink at ASCO 1999: Saturday, May 15

ASCO Surveys Demonstrate Problems with Clinical Trials System
The three most comprehensive surveys to date of the cancer clinical trials system, commissioned by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, reveal a high level of oncologist participation in clinical research, despite severe underfunding and a...
Margin Width the Key to Control of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast
Atlanta, May 15, 1999 -- Patients with one of the most common and curable forms of breast cancer may be undergoing radiation therapy unnecessarily, according to study findings revealed at the 1999 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)...
New Chemotherapy Combination Causes Brain Tumors to Regress
Researchers have found that a chemotherapy regimen, including procarbazine, CCNU and Vincristine (PVC), given before radiation therapy to patients with low-grade oligodendroglioma or oligoastrocytoma brain tumors, causes tumors to regress in 28...
Small French Study Shows Longer Time to Relapse for High-Dose Chemotherapy in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Begun in 1992, this study of 61 women with metastatic breast cancer responsive to chemotherapy, who were randomized to receive either high-dose chemotherapy supported by stem cell transplant, or standard doses of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy...
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