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CancerNetwork® sat down with Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting to talk about multidisciplinary care with geriatrician oncologists and the use of age-based analyses for diagnosis and following up of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.
CancerNetwork® sat down with Sylvie Bonvalot, MD, PhD, at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting to talk about treatment options for high-grade or grade II sarcoma.
Trends towards missing key moments for end-of-life discussions when meeting with patients who have stage IV cancer can be overcome with existing strategies for successful EOL conversations.
The makers of eflapegrastim received a complete response letter from the FDA due to concerns over manufacturing.
Black veterans within the United States who could stand to highly benefit from definitive treatment were found to be less likely to undergo treatment than non-Black populations.
Pediatric and adolescent patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia experienced similar outcomes when treated with either calaspargase pegol or pegaspargase.
Pembrolizumab met its primary end point of prolonged recurrence-free survival in the phase 3 KEYNOTE-716 trial for patients with stage II resected high-risk melanoma.
Results of the phase 3 EMPOWER-Lung 3 trial support the use of cemiplimab in advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.
Based on results from the phase 3 COSMIC-311 trial, the FDA has accepted an application for cabozantinib use in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer with refractory disease following radioactive iodine therapy.
The cost of treating and managing breast cancer will rise two-and-a-half times by 2030 due to expected increases in young women being diagnosed with metastatic disease.
CancerNetwork® sat down with Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting to talk about results of the MyPathway study in HER2-positive advanced solid tumors treated with pertuzumab plus trastuzumab.
Oncologists can now use the International Esodata Study Group’s risk predictor model to identify patients with esophageal cancer who might be at a very high-risk of death following an esophagectomy.
Patients with EGFR wild-type non–small cell lung cancer experienced a survival benefit with the addition of plinabulin to docetaxel in the second- and third-line settings.
The mTOR inhibitor nab-sirolimus may be the first agent to receive FDA approval as therapy specifically for perivascular epithelioid cell tumors.
Women with gynecologic cancer who experience an improvement of social needs such as companionship and food insecurity could experience improved outcomes.
Tumor size and grade appeared to be associated with long-term survival in patients with estrogen receptor–positive/ERBB2-negative breast cancer who have undergone treatment with tamoxifen.
The accelerated approval status for romidepsin for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma has been withdrawn following the results of the confirmatory phase 3 Ro-CHOP trial.
Myriad Genetics’ RiskScore offers personalized polygenic breast cancer risk assessment to undiagnosed women of all ancestries.
Atezolizumab, which previously demonstrated positive results in the IMpower010 trial, was granted a priority review by the FDA for use in non–small cell lung cancer.
Three-year invasive disease-free survival was associated with the use of trastuzumab emtansine in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.
On this CancerNetwork® podcast, we examine the scientific evidence behind the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for hematologic malignancies.
For patients with pIIIA-N2 non–small cell lung cancer, postoperative radiotherapy after complete resection and adjuvant chemotherapy did not positively impact disease-free survival.
Combination ivosidenib/azacitidine has yielded notable improvements in survival over ivosidenib alone in IDH1-positive treatment-naïve acute myeloid leukemia.
Immunotherapy agent nemvaleukin alfa was granted an FDA fast track designation for the treatment of patient’s mucosal melanoma for previously undergone treatment with an anti-PD-L1 therapy.
Older adult patients with newly diagnosed high-risk or secondary acute myeloid leukemia experienced a durable survival benefit when treated with CPX-351 over 7+3 cytarabine and daunorubicin chemotherapy.
The SEQUOIA trial comparing zanubrutinib with bendamustine plus rituximab for patients with treatment-naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia demonstrated superior progression-free survival results with the BTK inhibitor.
Compared with pivotal phase 3 trials, the use of pertuzumab in the frontline and T-DM1 in the second-line setting for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer may lead to shorter survival outcomes.
Zanubrutinib yielded a high response rate and extended progression-free survival in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.
CancerNetwork® sat down with Jorge Nieva, MD, at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting to talk about the future of clinical trials for early-stage non–small cell lung cancer.
Cemiplimab for patients with either metastatic or locally advanced basal cell carcinoma showed antitumor activity in a phase 2 trial.
