Expert panelists consider how to define response to disease-modifying therapies and discuss the threshold for treatment ineligibility due to lack of response. Neil Minkoff, MD: At some point, we are ...

Oncologists use measurement of response as an indicator that the therapy they are administering is effective. This information can then be used to decide whether to continue, change, or stop therapy ...

The consensus definition of severe sepsis requires suspected or proven infection, organ failure, and signs that meet two or more criteria for the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). We ...

New Utility of an Old Marker: Serial α-Fetoprotein Measurement in Predicting Radiologic Response and Survival of Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Undergoing Systemic Chemotherapy Adult T-cell ...

To determine the average time-point at which it is best to define ‘sub-optimal response’ after ranibizumab treatment for diabetic macular edema (DME) based on the data obtained from real-life clinical ...

...how can this be reconciled to allow the field of oncology to move forward We are all familiar with the metrics of tumour shrinkage and time to the development of disease progression as important ...