Gynecologic Cancers

In an interview with Cancer Network, Lorraine Drapek describes a multidisciplinary program at MGH to support vaginal and sexual health post RT for GI and gynecologic malignancies.

The approval of PARP inhibitors has caused a paradigm shift in ovarian cancer management and a challenge for clinicians, who must decide how best to use these agents in individualized treatment.

In women with ovarian cancer, those with early life adversity and anxiety had more dysregulation of cortisol, suggesting they may be at risk for more negative outcomes.

New data suggest adding bevacizumab to chemotherapy may prolong PFS in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer.

The noninferiority of neoadjuvant chemotherapy vs upfront surgery could not be confirmed with regard to overall survival in patients with ovarian, tubal, and peritoneal cancers.

A secondary cytoreductive surgery along with chemotherapy following recurrence in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer offered improved outcomes over treatment with chemotherapy alone.

Trabectedin plus pegylated liposomal doxorubicin offered clinical benefit in a real-life setting of patients with previously treated platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer.

A personalized cancer vaccine was well tolerated and was capable of inducing antitumor T-cell immunity in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer.

The FDA has granted approval of rucaparib for maintenance therapy in patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer.

At SGO 2018, an early study showed ‘encouraging’ PFS with trastuzumab added to combination carboplatin/paclitaxel for advanced HER2/neu-overexpressing uterine serous carcinoma.

ACA Medicaid expansion benefited women younger than 65 who were diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer between 2011 and 2014, a SEER database analysis found.

An “ultra-restrictive” policy to reduce opioid prescribing to women who underwent major gynecologic cancer surgeries dramatically reduced opioid use.

A registry study suggests that there may be a familial association between ovarian and testicular cancers.

A large study found no association between the use of metformin or statins and the incidence of ovarian cancer in women with type 2 diabetes.

Lifastuzumab vedotin offered a modest improvement in progression-free survival over standard care in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

A meta-analysis incorporating tens of thousands of individuals found no association between the use of antidepressants and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer.

The novel agent prexasertib showed promising activity and was reasonably well tolerated in a phase II study of high-grade, heavily pretreated, BRCA wild-type serous ovarian carcinoma.

Use of oral contraceptives may be beneficial for chemoprevention for a range of women with different baseline cancer risks, according to the results of a new study.

Treatment with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy along with cytoreductive surgery resulted in better survival outcomes than surgery alone in patients with stage III epithelial ovarian cancer, according to a new study.

The FDA has granted priority review status to rucaparib as maintenance therapy for women with recurrent ovarian cancer, according to the drug’s developer.

The addition of pazopanib to paclitaxel failed to improve outcomes over paclitaxel alone in women with persistent or recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer.

In this slide show we highlight some of the top news on gynecologic cancers in 2017, including studies on surgery for cervical and ovarian cancer, the FDA approval of niraparib, and more.

The majority of surveyed ovarian cancer patients required a 5-year survival benefit of 6% or less to justify an additional 50 miles of travel for cancer care.

The immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab demonstrated antitumor activity in a small trial of patients with advanced cervical cancer. The agent had a similar toxicity profile to that seen in other malignancies.

Comprehensive geriatric assessments will play an increasingly important role in identifying patient frailty and personalizing geriatric oncology treatment, according to recently published reviews.