GLG News by Multiple Myeloma Physicians

Support from a cigarette manufacturer raises questions as to the conclusions from this study which says early detection by repetitive CT's can improve cancer cure rates by early detection. (making smoking safer?)

Hormone blocking therapy is added to radiation, unnecessarily, in early prostate cancer patients. The result in early stage patients is unnecessary side effects and reduced quality of life. Go figure.

Early detection of ovarian cancer is of paramount importance

Antibodies have been identified that explain allergic reactions that can terminate it's use in individuals who "react."

This exceedingly rare condition produces organ damage due to infiltration of blood eosinophils. Steroids are the only effective therapy in the non myeloproliferative subset of patients, so for the chosen few this drug will be invaluable.

All major clinical trials in  patients with pancreatic cancer have generated questionable actual benefit

The high cost of all the new agents is a major problem, especially in developing countries

The role of immune system remains important and shouhd never neglected even with all these new molecules

Vaccines have always been a hope but until now no significant results have been recorded in solid tumors

Vaccination with EGF was used in a maintenance situation after initial chemo. No only did it produce EGF antibodies BUT the antibody response was correlated with survival!!