ONCOLOGY Nurse Edition February 2009, Vol 23 No 2

Brandon Mancini, MD, MBA, FACRO, discusses the presentations from ASTRO 2026 that may impact the future of prostate cancer, lung cancer, and other diseases.

"We thought there might be a preventive effect towards the development from CHIP to CCUS to MDS, so it’s a sort of a continuum," said Kirsten Grønbæk, MD, PhD.

Ralph V. Boccia, MD, FACP, discussed how time since CAR T-cell therapy and toxicity profiles guide bispecific selection in relapsed multiple myeloma.

Al-Ola A. Abdallah, MD, explains a possible biological reason IMiD holding therapy benefited ide-cel but not cilta-cel recipients.

Industry payments to oncologists were associated with greater use of the promoted treatment, whether or not it was guideline-preferred for the patient’s cancer.

The phase 2/3 AHEAD-MERIT trial will continue to assess overall survival among patients who received BNT113 plus pembrolizumab for head and neck cancer.

Ralph V. Boccia, MD, FACP, discusses payer models, prior authorization, cost recovery, and patient assistance for bispecifics like teclistamab/daratumumab.

Robot-assisted radical hysterectomy reduced mostly low-grade intraoperative complications vs open surgery in early-stage cervical cancer.