ASCO 2013 Intro

Older patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, high-risk early breast cancer maintain a clinically meaningful absolute reduction in risk of distant relapse and invasive disease following treatment with abemaciclib and endocrine therapy.

Margaret Rosenzweig, PhD, CRNP-C, AOCNP, FAAN, discusses how nursling-led palliative care may improve advanced cancer care planning uptake based on a secondary analysis of the CONNECT study.

Obecatagene autoleucel also appears to result in a high rate of minimal residual disease negativity in a population of patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Rakhshanda Rahman, MD, FRCS, FACS, emphasizes the importance of educating patients and physicians on the potential risks and benefits of new approaches and technologies involved in the de-escalation of breast cancer treatment.

Tucatinib plus trastuzumab represents a valuable, novel option for HER2-positive, RAS wild-type, unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer that is chemotherapy refractory, according to the authors of the phase 2 MOUNTAINEER trial.

The Molecular International Prognostic Scoring System appears to improve prognostic discrimination across all clinical end points compared with other scores in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.