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A Warrensburg woman died after an SUV collided with a van in Johnson County Saturday morning.

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTS EIGHT FATALITIES OVER THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Eyal Gottlieb, PhD, has been named vice president for research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Gottlieb will oversee laboratory science departments that lead discovery and translational research across multiple disciplines. He will work closely with various MD Anderson staff to implement the university’s scientific research strategy.

CHICAGO — Chemoimmunotherapy and immunotherapy alone conferred comparable benefit as first-line therapy for most patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and high PD-L1 expression, results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting showed.Older patients appeared to derive better OS and PFS outcomes with immunotherapy alone, findings from the exploratory pooled analysis showed.

CHICAGO — The addition of brentuximab vedotin to frontline chemotherapy significantly extended OS among patients with advanced classical Hodgkin lymphoma, according to study results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.The experimental regimen conferred a 41% reduction in risk for death compared with standard chemotherapy, updated results of the randomized phase 3 ECHELON-1 trial showed.