Report on the 45th ICFG Plenary Meeting

Summary of the 45th annual meeting on women's cancers.

The 45th Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer was held in Tampa Florida March 22–25. The meeting was responsive to the diverse and expanding membership offering sunrise sessions, education forums, plenary and focused plenary presentations with focused lecturettes, controversial topic debates and much more. Five key concepts served as the platform for the meeting and timely discussions addressing ch...

American society of clinical oncology, 45th annual meeting.

The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, held in Chicago, included topics covering new therapeutic developments in the field of oncology. This conference report highlights selected presentations on novel therapies for cancers including glioblastoma, breast cancer, myeloma, NSCLC and solid tumors. Investigational drugs discussed include rindopepimut and PF-299804 (bo...

Plenary Meeting of the INTERNATIONAL COTTON ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES

1) After warm opening remarks, the Chair invited Mr. Alois Schönberger, Chair of the Private Sector Advisory Panel (PSAP) to deliver the report of the PSAP to the Plenary Meeting. Mr. Schönberger noted that the reserve policy of the Government of China has many impacts on the world cotton market: prices remain above average even though stocks are record high; prices of cotton are above those of...

Highlights from: The 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Report from the 45th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

The ketolide telithromycin (Ketek, Sanofi Aventis) has been found to be more effective than the macrolide azithromycin (Zithromax, Pfizer) in eradicating Streptococcus pneumoniae from the nasopharynges of patients with acute maxillary sinusitis. Furthermore, the emergence of antimicrobial resistance following therapy occurs only with azithromycin. The growing resistance of S. pneumoniae to peni...