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Findings suggest that patients with breast cancer and consistently negative circulating tumor DNA tests tend to have improved clinical outcomes.

All patients with a response to TAR-200 did not have progression to muscle-invasive bladder cancer or metastatic disease in the SunRISe-1 trial.

CheckMate-8HW assessed the efficacy of first-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with MSI-H/dMMR metastatic colorectal cancer.

Investigators analyzed data from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research who underwent autologous or allogeneic transplants.

Data from the CheckMate-67T trial support the biologics license application for subcutaneous nivolumab in multiple solid tumors.

Registered nurses discuss research related to agents like ciltacabtagene autoleucel presented at the 2024 Oncology Nursing Society Congress.

Data from a phase 2 study may support apalutamide plus androgen deprivation in high-risk localized prostate cancer following radical prostatectomy.

Treatment with cretostimogene grenadenorepvec appears tolerable among patients with high-risk BCG–unresponsive NMIBC in the phase 3 BOND-003 trial.

Findings support the use of 18F-PSMA-1007 PET/CT in the preoperative workflow of intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer.

Functional consequences appeared to be lower with HIFU compared with radical prostatectomy in a prospective trial.

Data also highlight a favorable overall survival trend with the acalabrutinib regimen in the phase 3 ECHO trial.

Findings from a health disparities report may support new policies designed to narrow persistent racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes.

Collaboration among nurses, social workers, and others may help in safely administering outpatient bispecific T-cell engager therapy to patients.

T-DXd given at 2 dose levels continued to show anti-tumor activity in patients with HER2-overexpressing non–small cell lung cancer.

The primary end point of overall survival was met in the KEYNOTE-811 trial assessing pembrolizumab in HER2-positive gastrointestinal cancer.

Phase 3b data support venetoclax as a treatment option in CLL for patients with or without B-cell receptor–associated kinase inhibitor treatment.

Immunotherapy may be an “elegant” method of managing colorectal cancer, says Gregory Charak, MD.

D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, spoke about how the approval of alectinib is the beginning of multiple other approvals for patients with ALK-positive NSCLC.

Biennial screening mammography is recommended for those who are 40 to 74 years old rather than individualizing screening decisions in this age group.

Nurses should be educated on cranial nerve impairment that may affect those with multiple myeloma who receive cilta-cel, says Leslie Bennett, MSN, RN.

Those who have been previously treated for KRAS G12C–mutated advanced NSCLC may benefit from treatment with glecirasib.

Treatment with cilta-cel may give patients with multiple myeloma “more time,” according to Ishmael Applewhite, BSN, RN-BC, OCN.

Safety findings highlight no severe adverse effects or dose-limiting toxicities with the rintatolimod combination in late-stage pancreatic cancer.

Using FOLFIRI as a doublet with durvalumab or a triplet with durvalumab and tremelimumab yielded positive safety in gastric/GEJ cancers.

Nurses may need to help patients with multiple myeloma adjust to walking differently in the event of peripheral neuropathy following cilta-cel.

Amivantamab/chemotherapy has been recommended for approval by the CHMP in advanced non–small cell lung cancer with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.

Tisotumab vedotin-tftv may now be given to patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer, according to the FDA.