PET/CT Improves Detection of Inoperable Lung Cancer (07/02/2009)
Preoperative lung cancer staging with combined PET/CT imaging allows some patients to avoid futile surgery. These results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Amgen Helps Reduce Out-of-pocket Costs for Neulasta® (07/02/2009)
Amgen’s Neulasta FIRST STEP™ Program provides assistance to eligible, low-income, commercially-insured chemotherapy patients who need help with their co-insurance or co-payment requirement for Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim).

Sutent® Fails to Show Benefit in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer (07/01/2009)
The combination of the targeted therapy Sutent® (sunitinib) and FOLFIRI chemotherapy did not result in better progression-free survival than FOLFIRI alone among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, prompting a Phase III clinical trial of the combination treatment to be stopped early. This information was made available in a press release from Pfizer.