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CancerNetwork® sat down with Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS, to talk about keeping track of conference and journal updates to help build and maintain knowledge around lung cancer.

For Pancretic Cancer Awareness month, CancerNetwork® spoke with Manuel Hidalgo Medina, MD, PhD, about the importance of the phase 2 COMBAT/KEYNOTE-202 trial examining motixafortide and pembrolizumab plus nanoliposomal irinotecan, fluorouracil, and folinic acid in metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who received first-line nivolumab and ipilimumab experienced an improved treatment-free survival vs sunitinib.

Retrospective data suggest survival outcomes were positive and safety was reasonable for patients with cancer aged 80 years or older who received immune checkpoint inhibitors.

A exposure-response analysis indicated that a 3.2mg/m2 dose of lurbinectedin every 3 weeks achieved a favorable risk/benefit profile in patients with small cell lung cancer.

Patients with relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia who were treated with either limited or continuous venetoclax and rituximab experienced improved responses during a 5-year follow-up.

Patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guerin may benefit from treatment with CG0070 plus pembrolizumab.

Findings from a Nationally Representative study indicated that multispecialty, academically affiliated, urban cancer institutions had more access to genetic testing.

The FDA approved nab-sirolimus as the first drug specifically indicated for the treatment of patients with malignant perivascular epithelioid cell tumors.

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

In a systemic review assessing the use of first-line post-protocol immunotherapy for patients with kidney cell carcinoma, investigators reported that use was low in randomized clinical trials among patients in the control group.

Patients with EGFR-mutated non-squamous non–small cell lung cancer who progressed following EGFR-TKI therapy experienced a progression-free survival benefit following treatment with sintilimab plus a bevacizumab biosimilar injection and chemotherapy.

Investigators announced positive topline results for the phase 3 QuANTUM-First trial, assessing the use of quizartinib plus chemotherapy for adult patients with newly diagnosed FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.

Lead author, Quirin Zangl, MD, spoke with CancerNetwork about research published in the journal ONCOLOGY focusing on the importance comprehensive geriatric assessment tools for patients with genitourinary carcinomas.

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.

Most states in the United States had stable rates of lung cancer screenings during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some even experiencing significant improvements.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS, to talk about coming research involving immunotherapy for patients with lung cancer.

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.

Phase 3 data suggest that concurrent treatment with ibrutinib and venetoclax yielded promising efficacy for patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

Attention needs to be paid to the psychosocial needs of patients, especially those with poor health-related quality of life, who have little support, or are single mothers.

For patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, CD8-positive, cytotoxic tumor infiltrating lymphocytes may be predictive of outcomes after treatment with trastuzumab.

In an interview with CancerNetwork®, Andrew Hendifar, MD discusses a case series analysis focused on real-world outcomes with targeted and standard therapies in a subset of patients with pancreatic cancer and RAF alterations.

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

Despite 5-year survival increasing nationally for patients with lung cancer, patients of color continue to experience poor survival.

Patients with intermediate-risk and high-risk renal cell carcinoma had a statistically significant improvement in disease-free survival after being treated with pembrolizumab, which was approved by the FDA.

Phase 3 data indicated that the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab followed by treatment with dabrafenib and trametinib, if necessary, resulted in greater overall survival at 2 years for patients with treatment-naïve BRAF-mutant metastatic melanoma.

Patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma saw improved progression-free survival when treated with tumor treating fields, pembrolizumab, and temozolomide versus historical control data.

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.