Category: News
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BG Lab Released Their 2025 Annual Report
BG Lab released their first annual report for the 2025 year! We had an amazing year full of mentoring, forming connections with experts across the globe, welcoming new trainees, and celebrating trainee milestones. This year was very productive for us – we produced 27 peer-reviewed publications, delivered 24 presentations, and our PI Dr. Bishal Gyawali…
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Dr. Bishal Gyawali Honoured as Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS
ScholarGPS recognized Dr. Gyawali as a Highly Ranked Scholar in the specialties of Global Oncology and Progression-Free Survival. Highly Ranked Scholar is based on a quantitative assessment and recognizes scholars for their exceptional productivity, impact, and quality of scholarly contributions that have placed them in the top 0.05% of scholars worldwide. Dr. Gyawali was ranked…
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A Case for Superiority Design De-Escalation Trials
Dr. Gyawali recently published a thought-provoking article in JNCI making a compelling case for using superiority design rather than noninferiority design to test de-escalation strategies in cancer care. Graphical abstract by Laure-Anne Teuwen Overtreatment is a growing concern in cancer care, where patients who may not benefit are being treated, or treatment may begin earlier,…
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Beyond the Hype: Lessons From ESMO 2025 Oncology Trial Data – New Medscape Skills Lab Video
Dr. Gyawali previously released a Medscape video discussing key learning lessons from the ESMO 2025 annual meeting – watch it here! He continues this discussion in a new Medscape video focusing on prognostic and predictive markers, as it was frequently touched on during the ESMO 2025 meeting. Using examples from trials presented at ESMO 2025,…
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ESMO 2025: Cutting Through the Hype With Real Data and Real Math – New Medscape Skills Lab Video
Dr. Gyawali returned a Skills Lab video discussing the key learning lessons from the ESMO 2025 annual meeting. You can watch the video or read the transcript now on Medscape. He talks about the need for greater critical analysis of the trial results that are being presented at ESMO. He also encourages audience members to…
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SCRI Celebrated Dr. Bishal Gyawali’s Award for Excellence in Cancer Research
On December 4, 2025, Queen’s SCRI hosted a ceremony to celebrate Dr. Gyawali’s receipt of the 2024 Canadian Cancer Society Award for Excellence in Cancer Research. Dr. Gyawali received the William E. Rawls Prize as an early-career researcher for his significant and important advancements in cancer control research, which we discussed in a previous news…
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How do oncologists in LMICs make treatment decisions? – Now available on YouTube
Our inaugural BG Lab Webinar, How do oncologists in LMICs make treatment decisions?, is now available to watch on YouTube. Dr. Gyawali was joined by Dr. Bhawna Sirohi from Balco Medical Center in Raipur, India, and Dr. Soumitra Datta from Tata Medical Center in Kolkata, India, to discuss how clinicians in LMICs weigh quality of…
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Dr. Bishal Gyawali speaks with CBC News about prostate cancer screening in Canada
Dr. Bishal Gyawali spoke with CBC The National for a news video and CBC News for an article about new research that suggests prostate cancer cases have increased after screening guidelines changed in the US. However, some experts dispute how this research has been interpreted, and whether guidelines should change. You can watch both the…
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New study highlights significant variation in the prices of gastrointestinal cancer treatments in Nepal’s public sector
13 November 2025 – A new study published in JCO Global Oncology led by researchers at the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), Nepal and Bishal Gyawali Lab (BG Lab), Queen’s University highlights significant variation in the price and availability of gastrointestinal cancer drugs within Nepal’s public sector. The co-first authors of this paper are…
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General Practitioners in Oncology (GPO) Fellowship Program Officially Launched in Nepal
November 4, 2025. The General Practitioners in Oncology (GPO) Fellowship Program has officially launched in Nepal, a collaborative initiative between the National Academy for Medical Sciences (NAMS) and Queen’s University (Canada). The development of the program was led by Dr. Gyawali, and Dr. Bishesh Sharma Poudyal. The program aims to equip general practitioners with the…
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