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The March issue of The On­cology Pharmacist (TOP) features the latest medical news, expert perspectives, clinical trial results, and drug updates, as well as important highlights from national and international meetings, including the 2019 ASH annual meeting, the 2019 Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium, the NCCN 2019 Hematologic Malignancies meeting, the ACCC 2019 National Oncology Conference, and the 2019 AVBCC Summit. Read More ›

The January issue of The Oncology Pharmacist (TOP) features the latest medical news, expert perspectives, clinical trial results, and drug updates, as well as key highlights from national and international meetings, including the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2019, the 2019 Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium, and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) 2019 Hematologic Malignancies meeting. Read More ›

The November issue of The Oncology Pharmacist features important news and insights for today’s oncology pharmacists. Read More ›

The August issue of The Oncology Pharmacist (TOP) features a presentation from the 2019 Hematology/­Oncology Pharmacy Association Annual Conference that explores the timely topic of precision medicine and its potential role in guiding treatment decisions that can improve the lives of patients with cancer. Read More ›

The May issue of The Oncology Pharmacist (TOP) features presentations from national and international meetings, including the 2019 Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) Conference, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) 2019 Conference, the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, the 2019 ASCO-SITC Clinical Immuno-Oncology Symposium, and the 2019 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Read More ›

The February issue of The Oncology Pharmacist (TOP) features presentations and studies from national and international meetings, including the 2018 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2018 Congress, and the 2018 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer. Read More ›

The November issue of The Oncology Pharmacist (TOP) features key presentations from the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association 2018 Practice Management Conference. Read More ›

From the Editor - TOP August 2018

In the August issue of The Oncology Pharmacist (TOP), we feature results of a clinical trial presented at the 2018 American Association for Cancer Research meeting, which showed that the addition of the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab to chemotherapy yielded significantly longer overall survival and progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic nonsquamous non–small-cell lung cancer.

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Results from another clinical trial, ALEX, were also presented at the meeting, and led to alectinib (Alecensa), a next-generation anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor, being hailed as a new standard of care for patients with ALK mutation–positive non–small-cell lung cancer.

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