Oncology

Don Dizon, MD, FACP, FASCO, describes the importance of establishing a gender-affirming environment for patients with cancer.

Don Dizon, MD, spotlights the daunting experiences lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients with cancer face, tracing that experience from diagnosis throughout treatment and continuing into symptom management.

ASTCT recently published an article in their journal Nucleus detailing the use of killer immunoglobulin-like receptor–ligand mismatch and its impact on graft versus host disease.

Currently, it is not known whether cisgender and transgender patients with cancer respond similarly to standard-of-care therapies due to challenges collecting gender identity and sexual orientation data in clinical cancer research.

The Partnership Director at GRYT Health opened up about their collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb to address disparities in clinical trials.

Don Dizon, MD, emphasizes the importance of policies ensuring higher levels of gay and transgender participation in clinical cancer trials.

Use of a multidisciplinary geriatric assessment-driven intervention resulted in a reduction in grade 3 or higher chemotherapy-related toxic events.

Patients with advanced cancers who were ineligible for trials were more likely to receive frontline immune checkpoint inhibitor monotherapy than patients with the same advanced cancers who were eligible for trials.

ASTCT recently published an article in their journal Nucleus detailing the impact of genotype and voriconazole co-administration on tacrolimus trough concentration in pediatric β-thalassemia major patients following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

ONCOLOGY® co-editor-in-chief Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA, recaps the 2021 Leadership, Empowerment, and Development Conference: Enriching and Supporting Women in Hematology and Oncology.

Eric D. Whitman, MD, discusses the clinical trial program at Atlantic Health System, a large nonprofit health care network in New Jersey, and how partnering with the Translational Genomics Research Institute will help to bring better care to patients with cancer.

CancerNetwork® sat down with C. Jillian Tsai, MD, PhD, at the 2021 American Society for Radiation Oncology to talk about why consolidative radiotherapy may be beneficial against oligoprogression in metastatic breast and lung cancer.

Join ASTCT for a series of webinars that focus on topics relating to CAR T.

CancerNetwork® spoke with Anthony W. Tolcher, MD, and Alexander I. Spira MD, PhD, about NEXT Oncology partnering with the Phase 1 Trials Program at Virginia Cancer Specialists to give patients another chance at treatment.

ASTCT recently published an article in their journal Nucleus detailing a simplified manufacturing process for CAR T cells.

The AVENIO Tumor Tissue Comprehensive Genomic Profiling Kit could allow for more accessible genetic testing and result in more personalized treatments.

Investigators believe that a systems-based intervention could reduce or even eliminate racial gaps in cancer treatment completion and improve outcomes.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, shares insight on approaching clinical decision-making for the length of immunotherapy treatment and drug holidays for patients with NSCLC.

An expert in thoracic oncology provides an overview of ctDNA and discusses what ctDNA testing results can indicate about a patient’s likelihood of responding to immunotherapy in NSCLC.

In a debate, experts discuss the importance of IGHV and TP53 mutational status in predicting response to novel therapies in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, reviews indicators of relapse or progression of disease when monitoring patients on therapy in NSCLC.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, provides insight on selecting the optimal therapy for non–small-cell lung cancer and shares considerations for the use of combination chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

“In my mind, the question is not who should get chemotherapy, but who can avoid chemotherapy in this day and age.”

Josh Ludwig detailed to CancerNetwork® how ScaleReady can help make cell and gene therapy widely practical and viable for patients with cancer.

Patients with solid tumors and an NTRK gene fusion who experienced progressive disease appear to derive benefit from repotrectinib, which received a breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA.

Patients with early breast cancer appear to have consistent prognostic value associated with residual cancer burden, regardless of disease subtype.

Solange Peters, MD, PhD, detailed several important abstracts from the Presidential Symposia at the 2021 ESMO Congress she believes will be practice changing.

Several factors among cancer survivors, such as rural residence, low income, and low education were found to be independently associated with a higher risk of developing new-onset cardiovascular disease.

Although safety, efficacy, and symptom burden were not statistically different between patients with pulmonary oligometastases treated with single- or multi-fraction stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy, delivery appeared more efficient in the single-fractionation arm.