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Breast Cancer

T-DXd Approved by the FDA for Pretreated Patients With HER2-Low or -Ultralow Metastatic Breast Cancer

The antibody-drug conjugate fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (T-DXd) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...


Lung Cancer

Anatomic Lung Resection May Be Linked to Improved Survival in Early-Stage NSCLC

Anatomic lung resections such as lobectomy and segmentectomy may be associated with improved long-term survival...

Colorectal Cancer

Novel Combination Targeted Therapies, Chemotherapy in BRAF-Mutated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

First-line treatment with the targeted therapies encorafenib and cetuximab plus a modified leucovorin, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin...


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Colorectal Cancer

New Findings on Aspirin and Risk of Colorectal Cancer Recurrence

According to one of the first biomarker-driven randomized study in people with nonmetastatic colorectal cancer, taking 160 mg of aspirin daily...

Colorectal Cancer

New Research Explores Blood Test to Determine Prognosis, Benefit of Celecoxib in Stage III Colon Cancer

Previous research has shown that nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including aspirin and COX-2 inhibitors...

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Hematologic Malignancies

Rami S. Komrokji, MD, on Myelodysplastic Neoplasms: Classifying Risks Among Subsets of Disease

Breast Cancer

Some Patients With Low-Risk Ductal Carcinoma In Situ May Be Able to Avoid Surgery

Active monitoring appears to be a safe strategy for the management of some patients with low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), proving noninferior to guideline-concordant management of this patient population (ie, surgery with or without radiation therapy). After 2 years, the rate of invasive...

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In Case You Missed It: Additional Studies of Interest From ASH 2024

A record-breaking number of abstracts were submitted for the 2024 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition, and nearly 8,000 were accepted. The ASCO Post strives to provide in-depth coverage of those with the greatest impact. Here, we offer snapshots of others of...

Paolo Corradini, MD, on PMBCL and DLBCL: Comparing Outcomes With Axicabtagene Ciloleucel

Multiple Myeloma

AQUILA Trial: Daratumumab Proves Beneficial in Smoldering Multiple Myeloma

Patients with smoldering multiple myeloma derived a significant progression-free survival benefit, along with other positive outcomes, from 3 years of subcutaneous use of the monoclonal antibody daratumumab as compared with active monitoring in the phase III AQUILA study.1 These findings were...

Lung Cancer

Getting a Lung Cancer Diagnosis Was Shocking

For more than a year before my diagnosis of stage IA non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in 2020, I had been self-treating a relentless chronic cough and a slight feeling of tightness in my chest. The symptoms were similar to asthma, so I began using albuterol inhalers. When they stopped working, I ...

Novel Menin Inhibitors Show Safety and Activity in Several Clinical Trials

The recently approved menin inhibitor revumenib is poised to improve the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), specifically for disease with a KMT2A rearrangement. Promising results for other novel menin inhibitors now in development—with their unique safety and activity profiles—suggest the...

Hematologic Malignancies
Leukemia

Nigel Russell, MD, on Acute Myeloid Leukemia: New Findings on FLAG-Ida and Gemtuzumab Ozogamicin

2.83% Medicare Physician Reimbursement Cut Finalized for 2025; Estimated 4% Cut for Medical Oncology

Late in 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule adopting changes for Medicare payments under the PFS. CMS also released the 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule, which sets hospital outpatient...

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Adjuvant T-DM1 vs Trastuzumab for Residual HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: Overall Survival in KATHERINE

As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Geyer et al, interim analysis of overall survival in the phase III KATHERINE trial showed a significant benefit of ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) vs trastuzumab in patients with residual invasive HER2-positive breast cancer after neoadjuvant...

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