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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.

CancerNetwork®sat down with John Burke, MD, to talk about the topline results in the KEYNOTE-564 trial, which examined the use of pembrolizumab in a population of patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma.

Patients who developed brain metastases from renal cell carcinoma experienced promising intracranial activity after being treated with cabozantinib.

Despite the importance of incorporating palliative care into strategies for metastatic kidney cancer, little data exists in the space, highlighting a need for further research.

Patients with melanoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and cervical cancer who had not previously received immunotherapy and were treated with lifileucel plus pembrolizumab experienced promising overall response rates compared favorably with historical data on pembrolizumab monotherapy.

CancerNetwork®sat down with John Burke, MD, to discuss why treatment with pembrolizumab post-surgery may be a promising option for patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma.

Patients with relapsed/refractory adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who were treated with AUTO1 experienced durable responses.

Patients with hormone receptor–positive breast cancer in 3 separate subgroups showed an overall survival benefit when treated with eftilagimod alpha plus paclitaxel compared with the placebo.

Ghulam Gous, MD, and colleagues report a case of glioblastoma with extensive liver metastases along with a review of previous reports of liver metastasis from glioblastomas and the possible mechanisms of metastasis.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS, to talk about the findings of the DESTINY-Lung01 study that were presented at 2021 ESMO.