The lack of a data safety monitoring board is "sub-optimal, " says Steven Joffe, a bioethicist and researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Center.
Dr. Mark Kieran, director of pediatric medical neuro-oncology at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Insititute, is the principal investigator of the study.
Dr. ERIC WEINER (Dana Farber Cancer Institute): And I think it really speaks to the underlying nature and behavior of hormone receptor positive breast cancer.
Nor did it follow them for five years or more, according to Eric Winer, an oncologist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute who led the study.
Among them was Ken Anderson , director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Under all current treatments, including bone marrow transplants, all patients relapse, notes Dr. Ken Anderson, director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Researchers may have to do many small trials of combinations of immune-boosting drugs until they find which combos work best on which patients, says Dana Farber Cancer Institute's Glenn Dranoff.
Philip Kantoff, a urological oncologist at Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, is conducting a big clinical trial that should firmly establish whether and how much Provenge helps patients.
Dana-Farber's Mayer says he's encouraged that the results are similar in different kinds of tumors.
Already, a coalition was forged between Adams and academics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the National Cancer Institute.
Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston took Celgene's improved version, Revlimid, and rushed it into myeloma trials.
"This has profound implications, " says researcher Thomas Look of Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The current trial by George Demetri, a GIST expert at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, tested SU-11248 in patients who had failed Gleevec.
Winer, director of the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
"I keep telling them that they need to think more like a biotech, " says George Demetri , an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Demetri of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who codesigned trials of AP23573 after big successes with other fast-tracked pills, such as Gleevec and Pfizer's Sutent.
Gary Gilliland, a hematologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, used a Web discussion board to recruit hundreds of patients willing to give him genetic samples.
Dr. Eric Weiner of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston says it's really unusual for a drug to be so effective such a long time after diagnosis.
Under the microscope "it looks like a small bomb went off in the nucleus, " says George Demetri, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
This study, which was led by Paul Richardson at the Dana-Farber Institute, tested only the sickest patients suffering from a relatively rare cancer called multiple myeloma.
"I don't know anyone who offers women the option of doing nothing, " says Eric Winer, director of the breast cancer program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
But the debilitating effects on a patient's sexuality are often ignored, said Sharon Bober, director of the sexual health program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
"Definitive studies to show it is better than Taxol have yet to be done, " says Eric Winer, a top breast cancer researcher at the Dana- Farber Cancer Institute.
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" Says Robert Mayer , director of the center for gastrointestinal oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: "I think it's hard to be anything but enthusiastic about the results.
"That's very impressive, " says Paul Richardson, a myeloma specialist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who has worked on other Celgene-sponsored trials but did not participate in this Thalomid study.
"That is absolutely the case, " agrees Dr. Ann Partridge, clinical director of the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who also does research on improving health care communication.
"The two different types have fairly dramatically different clinical behaviors, " said Matthew Kulke, director of the carcinoid and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor program at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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Slovenia, and a radiation oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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