Advances in the Treatment of Cancers: Highlights of ASCO 2004

Prescott, Lawrence M. Ph.D.

• This article was written by Lawrence M. Prescott, Ph.D. He may be contacted via e-mail at [email protected].

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Drug & Market Development 15(10):p 680-684, October 2004.

• More than 27,000 oncologists, surgeons, research scientists, pharmacologists, oncology nurses, and other healthcare professionals gathered from around the world at the recent 40^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) to hear the latest developments in the epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide variety of cancers.

• The studies presented covered a range of pharmacologic approaches as well as biotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic regimens that offered improved anticancer activity, enhanced survival, and relief of cancer- or treatment-related adverse effects.