Board of Visitors leadership welcomes new...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors (BOV), a nonfiduciary, appointed advisory board of volunteers who advance the institution’s mission to end cancer, marks the beginning of Fiscal Year 2019 with nine new members, effective Sept. 1:
$50 million awarded by CPRIT to MD Anderson and its projects
Combination immunotherapy shrinks melanoma brain metastases
PARP inhibitor improves progression-free...
In a randomized, Phase III trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the PARP inhibitor talazoparib extended progression-free survival (PFS) and improved quality-of-life measures over available chemotherapies for patients with metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer and mutations in the BRCA1/2 genes.
The results of the EMBRACA trial were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine...