ONCOLOGY Nurse Edition February 2009, Vol 23 No 2

“Those of us who work with NK cells have no doubt that they are incredibly powerful at killing cancer cells,” said Veronika Bachanova, MD, PhD.

Tyler Wilhite, MD, discusses expanding a radiation oncology program to also utilize low-dose radiation therapy for benign diseases.

Allen Khodab, MD discussed how patients with larger prostates had reduced IPSS scores that normalized to the same level as those with normal-sized glands.

Jeffrey V. Matous, MD, explains why ramantamig’s MRD negativity rates are clinically significant in relapsed/refractory myeloma.

In the phase 2 RALLY-MF study, selcodebart produced a 55% major response rate among evaluable non–transfusion-dependent patients with myelofibrosis.

Experts in multiple myeloma discussed long-term MAIA and CEPHEUS trial data and their implications for daratumumab-based regimens in newly diagnosed disease.

Adjuvant radiotherapy significantly reduced meningioma recurrence or death vs observation in grade 2 atypical meningioma after complete surgical resection.

VIR-5500, a PSMA-targeted PRO-XTEN dual-masked T-cell engager, showed an 82% PSA50 response rate and 45% ORR at higher doses in heavily pretreated mCRPC.