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18 Mar: American Association for Cancer Research Elects Dr. José Baselga as President-elect 2014-2015

PHILADELPHIA — The members of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) have elected José Baselga, M.D., Ph.D., physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, N.Y., as their president-elect for 2014-2015. Baselga is an internationally recognized physician-scientist whose research focuses on the clinical development of novel molecularly targeted agents for the treatment of cancer, particularly breast cancer.

12 Mar: New treatment extends survival of patients with advanced cervical cancer

An international study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, in which the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital and Vall d´Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) have participated, shows that administering bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of patients with recurrent and/or metastatic cervical cancer improves survival rates and reduces risk of death from this disease by 30%.

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