Oncology: Panelists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center will discuss the evolving treatment choices for several different kinds of lymphoma.
While standard therapies for B-cell and T-cell lymphoma continually evolve, several new developments, including the emergence of a number of new agents, make it necessary to begin to think about how we might integrate these drugs into our conventional standards of care. MORE...
Oncology: Panelists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center will discuss the evolving treatment choices for several different kinds of lymphoma.
While standard therapies for B-cell and T-cell lymphoma continually evolve, several new developments, including the emergence of a number of new agents, make it necessary to begin to think about how we might integrate these drugs into our conventional standards of care.
These new agents include proteasome inhibitors like bortezomib, histone deacetylase inhibitors like vorinostat, novel BCL2-targeted drugs, new T-cell-active agents like pralatrexate, new-generation thalidomide analogues like lenalidomide, novel monoclonal antibodies and vaccines, and other agents that are still very much in early clinical trials but which show promise. Several of these novel agents have been discovered and developed at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
It is hoped that adding these new agents to existing lymphoma regimens will optimize efficacy and reduce toxicity compared to conventional agents.
The panelists will discuss additional trials that have yet to be completed as they and others endeavor to discern the best schedules and optimal strategies incorporating the new agents. Further research will continue to try to understand how best to tailor specific agents to specific individuals.
The webcast will be presented on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 7 pm . Panelists will include Dr. John P. Leonard and Dr. Owen A. O'Connor.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital – based in New York City – is the nation's largest not-for-profit, non-sectarian hospital, with 2,335 beds. It provides state-of-the-art inpatient, ambulatory and preventive care in all areas of medicine at five major centers: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Allen Pavilion and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division. One of the largest and most comprehensive health-care institutions in the world, the Hospital is committed to excellence in patient care, research, education, and community service. It ranks sixth in U.S.News & World Report's guide to "America's Best Hospitals," ranks first on New York magazine's "Best Hospitals" survey, has the greatest number of physicians listed in New York magazine's "Best Doctors" issue, and is included among Solucient's top 15 major teaching hospitals. The Hospital is ranked with among the lowest mortality rates for heart attack and heart failure in the country, according to a 2007 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report card. The Hospital has academic affiliations with two of the nation's leading medical colleges: Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
