Research Programs

ASCO 2008 -- Presentations by UMGCC Experts

Many UMGCC experts presented the results of their latest cancer research at the 44th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held May 30-June 3, 2008, in Chicago. The ASCO Annual Meeting attracts more than 30,000 attendees and is considered the premier educational and scientific event in the oncology community. Presentations by UMGCC faculty included the following:

Abstract - No: 4014 | 6574 | 4553 | 5160 | 6013 | 6025 | 7549 | 8090 | 8548 | 13536 | 15599 | 19035


Abstract - No. 4014
Title: Effect of age on survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly stage III colon cancer patients: a population-based analysis.
Author: I. H. Zuckerman, A. J. Davidoff, E. Onukwugha, N. Pandya, J. F. Gardner, B. Seal, N. Obeidat, T. Rapp, C. D. Mullins, M. A. Choti
Category: Gastrointestinal (Colorectal) Cancer - Colorectal Cancer (including liver metastases)
Abstract - No. 6574
Title: Is there evidence of diminishing disparities in treatment (tx) with adjuvant (adj) chemotherapy (Ch) among elderly (E) stage 3 colon cancer (CC) patients (pts)? An analysis of 8,374 pts from SEER-Medicare data.
Author: A. J. Davidoff, M. A. Choti, I. H. Zuckerman, N. Obeidat, T. Rapp, E. Onukwugha, P. Sullivan, J. F. Gardner, C. D. Mullins, N. N. Hanna
Category: Health Services Research
Abstract - No. 5160
Title: Disparities and trends in prostate cancer staging over time.
Author: C. D. Mullins, V. D. Hsu, E. Onukwugha, I. H. Zuckerman, A. Hussain
Category: Genitourinary Cancer - Prostate Cancer
Abstract - No. 6025
Title: Phase 2 study of sunitinib in refractory thyroid cancer.
Author: E. E. Cohen, B. M. Needles, K. J. Cullen, S. J. Wong, J. L. Wade, S. P. Ivy, V. M. Villaflor, T. Y. Seiwert, K. Nichols, E. E. Vokes
Category: Head and Neck Cancer
Abstract - No. 7549
Title: Therapy (Tx) of locally advanced (LA) NSCLC in the elderly: Analysis of 6,325 patients from Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare.
Author: M. J. Edelman, M. Tang, J. F. Gardner, C. D. Mullins, B. Seal, A. J. Davidoff
Category: Lung Cancer--Local-Regional and Adjuvant Therapy - Local-Regional Therapy
Abstract - No. 8090
Title: Chemotherapy (C) and survival among 21,441 elderly (E) patients (pts) with advanced (adv) NSCLC: Analysis of SEER-Medicare claim data 1997-2002.
Author: M. Tang, A. J. Davidoff, C. D. Mullins, D. McNally, B. Seal, M. J. Edelman
Category: Lung Cancer--Metastatic Lung Cancer - Metastatic Lung Cancer
Abstract - No. 8548
Title : Phase I trial of vorinostat plus bortezomib (bort) in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (mm) patients (pts).
Author: A. Z. Badros, S. Philip, R. Niesvizk, O. Goloubeva, C. Harris, J. Zweibel, J. J. Wright, A. Burger, M. R. Baer, M. J. Egorin, S. Grant
Category: Lymphoma and Plasma Cell Disorders - Multiple Myeloma
Abstract - No. 13536
Title: Blast cells from patients treated for secondary AML (sAML) show less P-glycoprotein (Pgp)-mediated efflux of amonafide compared to daunorubicin: Implications for therapy.
Author: A. S. Lundberg, M. R. Baer, M. Chau, H. P. Erba, A. L. Dressel, A. M. Ajami, R. L. Capizzi
Category: Developmental Therapeutics: Cytotoxic Chemotherapy - Drug Resistance
Abstract - No. 15599
Title: Expression of breast cancer resistance protein in upper gastro-intestinal cancers.
Author: A. Bharthuar, T. Khoury, M. R. Baer, J. Black, A. Oseroff, N. Khushalani, M. M. Javle, H. Nava, R. V. Iyer
Category: Gastrointestinal (Noncolorectal) Cancer - Esophageal, Gastric, or Small Bowel Cancer
Abstract - No. 19035
Title: A phase I trial of the small molecule pan-bcl-2 inhibitor obatoclax (GX15-070) in combination with docetaxel in patients with relapsed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Author: E. B. Haura, C. A. Williams, A. A. Chiappori, J. Adams, D. W. Northfelt, S. M. Malik, D. Van Echo, M. J. Edelman, M. Berger
Category: Lung Cancer--Metastatic Lung Cancer - Metastatic Lung Cancer

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