David Henry's JCSO Podcast

David Henry's JCSO podcast, August 2015


 

References

In this month’s podcast for The Journal of Community and Supportive Oncology, Dr David Henry highlights a Review article on the role of targeted therapy in HIV-positive patients with lung cancer and 2 Original Reports, one on the impact of bladder volume on radiation dose to the rectum in patients with prostate cancer and a second on treatment outcomes in stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer in a community cancer center setting. Also discussed are a Commentary by David Cella and Lynne Wagner about re-personalizing precision medicine, and a Feature article on genomic oncology, the foundation of targeted, personalized therapies. A Community Translations article on the recent approval of the histone deacetylase inhibitor panobinostat demonstrates how a novel mechanism of action has been harnessed to produce a therapy that can extend progression-free survival in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma, and 2 Case Reports document the presentation and treatment of 2 patients with rare conditions – nonislet cell tumor-induced hypoglycemia and drug-induced immune hemolytic anemia.

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