WASHINGTON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline's Votrient extended the lives of a significant number of patients suffering from an aggressive form of cancer without the disease getting worse, but the drug did ...

Pediatric bone and soft tissue sarcomas, including osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma, represent devastating malignancies with survival rates ...

In patients with mostly undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcomas, 2-year DFS with the addition of preoperative and postoperative pembrolizumab (Keytruda) infusions reached 67%, as compared with 52% with ...

Indo–Italian experts from India, Italy, Malaysia, and Singapore convened in Bengaluru for the Indo–Italian Consensus Meet on ...

Immune checkpoint blockade therapy works by preventing the binding of checkpoint and partner proteins, thereby allowing T cells to continue their work of attacking and killing cancer cells. A team ...

Fragmented care - receiving medical treatment at more than one facility - has been associated with both positive and negative outcomes for cancer patients depending on a number of factors such as ...

Small blue round cells of Ewing Sarcoma. Nat Pernick, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Ewing sarcoma is one of the most common bone cancers seen in children, and if it spreads, it can be deadly. A ...

Outpatient Biochemotherapy With Interleukin-2 and Interferon Alfa-2b in Patients With Metastatic Malignant Melanoma: Results of Two Phase II Cytokine Working Group Trials PURPOSE: To determine whether ...

Eftilagimod alfa and Keytruda with radiotherapy improved tumor hyalinization/fibrosis rates in resectable soft tissue sarcoma, surpassing the trial's primary endpoint. The combination therapy achieved ...

A new Curtin University study has found that people diagnosed with sarcoma—a cancer disproportionately affecting teenagers ...