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Yesterday was the fourth day of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago. Although today is the final day of the meeting, the multiple myeloma-related sessions concluded yesterday.
The day began with a meeting-wide session to review the highlights of the previous day across all cancer types. There were six presentations, and despite all of the types of cancers being discussed at the meeting, an entire presentation was devoted to myeloma.
Dr. Jean-Luc Harousseau from the Rene Gauducheau Cancer Center in France presented the myeloma highlights. He described …
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The third day of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2010 annual meeting in Chicago was tailor-made for morning people interested in multiple myeloma. The key myeloma-related activity on Sunday, June 6 was a morning abstract session starting at 9:30 a.m. Nine abstracts were presented and discussed over the course of three hours.
The first two presentations dealt with Velcade (bortezomib)-related research.
Dr. Antonio Palumbo of the University of Turin presented the results of the first study. It compared two regimens for the treatment of newly diagnosed elderly myeloma patients. The first regimen involved …
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Yesterday -- Saturday, June 5 -- was the second day of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2010 annual meeting in Chicago. It was a busy day in terms of research posters and presentations related to multiple myeloma. As a result, there is a lot of ground to cover in this update.
Almost 40 myeloma-related posters were up for meeting attendees to view during the daytime poster session on "lymphoma and plasma cell disorders." Among those 40-or-so posters, six concerned research done by the myeloma team at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), …
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Friday, June 4, was the first day of this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago. Most of the big multiple myeloma news of the day came out of a poster session in the afternoon.
At "poster sessions," researchers present a poster-sized summary of their research in a small, 2 meter by 1 meter cubicle. Researchers and physicians mill about, taking pictures of the posters with their cell phone cameras or taking notes. Sometimes one or more of the contributing researchers are present to answer questions. More often than …