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Sarah Cannon Promotes Melissa Johnson, MD, to Program Director, Lung Cancer Research
December 17, 2020 GMT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 17, 2020
Today, Sarah Cannon announced the promotion of Melissa Johnson, MD, to Program Director of Lung Cancer Research. In her new role, Dr. Johnson will lead the lung cancer clinical trial portfolio across the Sarah Cannon network.
“Since joining Sarah Cannon, Dr. Johnson’s contributions to research have helped transform the treatment options available to patients facing lung cancer,” said David Spigel, MD, Chief Scientific Officer, Sarah Cannon. “As Program Director of Lung Cancer Research, Dr. Johnson will continue to help advance therapies for our patients today and in the future.”
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SUO 2020: Debate: Relugolix for Advanced Prostate Cancer is the New Standard (The HERO Study)
(UroToday.com) During the second prostate cancer session at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO), Drs. Neal Shore and Ashley Evan Ross debated the use of relugolix as a new standard of care for androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for the treatment of prostate cancer.
This debate follows the publication of the HERO trial,
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A Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Relugolix in Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer (HERO), which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in June 2020 and of which Dr. Shore is the lead author. This was a randomized controlled comparing relugolix, an oral gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist, to leuprolide. 120mg relugolix was given by mouth daily and leuprolide was given every 3 months as depot injections. The primary end point was “sustained castration”, meaning a testosterone level
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