SGO 2024 Annual Meeting on Womens Cancer
LEAP-001: Study Misses Endpoints but Still Shows Benefit for Lenvatinib/Pembrolizumab in Endometrial Cancer Subsets
The highly anticipated ENGOT-en9/LEAP-001 trial in endometrial cancer has missed both its primary endpoints. At the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) 2024 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer, the stu...
DUO-E Trial: Results Support New Treatment Options in Endometrial Cancer
New research findings have highlighted the importance of personalized treatment approaches with the monoclonal antibody durvalumab based on mismatch repair (MMR) status in newly diagnosed patients wit...
For Detection of Measurable Residual Disease in Ovarian Cancer, Are Two Methods Better Than One?
In patients with ovarian cancer, second-look surgery may find a role again. The evaluation of measurable residual disease (MRD) using second-look laparoscopy identified more women who had detectable M...
Activity Shown for Antibody-Drug Conjugates in Gynecologic Cancers
The recent approval of mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx is a testament to the emerging benefit of antibody-drug conjugates in recurrent ovarian cancer. Other agents of this class are now eliciting excit...
Expert Point of View: Gini F. Fleming, MD
The session’s invited discussant at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) 2024 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer was Gini F. Fleming, MD, Professor of Medicine, and Medical Director of Gynecologic ...
Survival Benefit Emerges With Use of Dostarlimab-gxly Plus Chemotherapy in Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer
The addition of a checkpoint inhibitor to standard chemotherapy as first-line treatment of advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer not only reduced the risk of disease progression but improved overal...
Progression-Free Survival Benefit Confirmed With Triplet Combination in BRCA Wild-Type, HRD-Positive Ovarian Cancer
The combination of immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and chemotherapy could be the new standard first-line treatment of patients with high-grade, advanced ovarian cancer with BRCA wild-type, homologous...
Ana Oaknin, MD, PhD, on Recurrent Cervical Cancer: New Findings on Atezolizumab, Bevacizumab, and Chemotherapy
Ana Oaknin, MD, PhD, of Spain’s Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, discusses phase III findings from the BEATcc trial, showing that adding atezolizumab to a standard bevacizumab-plus-platinum regimen ...
Matthew A. Powell, MD, on Endometrial Cancer: Overall Survival Update on Dostarlimab-gxly Plus Chemotherapy
Matthew A. Powell, MD, of the Washington University School of Medicine, discusses phase III findings from the RUBY trial, which shows dostarlimab-gxly plus chemotherapy improves overall survival in pa...
Anne Knisely, MD, on Ovarian Cancer and the Implications of Detecting Residual Disease and ctDNA
Anne Knisely, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses study findings showing that patients with ovarian cancer who undergo second-look laparoscopy and are found to have mea...
Dostarlimab-Based Combinations in Advanced Endometrial Cancer
Statistically significant and clinically meaningful overall survival results from Part 1 and progression-free survival results from Part 2 of the RUBY/ENGOT-EN6/GOG3031/NSGO phase III trial in adult p...
Mary McCormack, PhD, MBBS, on Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: Results From the INTERLACE Trial
Mary McCormack, PhD, MBBS, of University College London Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the global health issue of cervical cancer and a way forward. Phase III findings from the GCIG INTERL...
Avelumab Plus Axitinib in Mismatch Repair–Proficient Recurrent or Persistent Endometrial Cancer
The combination of avelumab and axitinib may be effective in patients with mismatch repair–proficient recurrent or persistent endometrial cancer, according to new findings presented by Lee et al at th...
Mansoor R. Mirza, MD, on Endometrial Cancer: Update on Combination Regimen of Dostarlimab, Chemotherapy, and Niraparib
Mansoor R. Mirza, MD, of Copenhagen University Hospital, discusses follow-up results from the RUBY trial, showing that, for patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer, dostarlimab-...
Brian M. Slomovitz, MD, on Cervical Cancer: Update on Tisotumab Vedotin vs Chemotherapy
Brian M. Slomovitz, MD, of Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, discusses additional phase III data from the innovaTV 301 trial, which showed that in patients with previously treated recurrent or ...
Durvalumab-Based Regimens Improve Response Over Chemotherapy Alone in pMMR Advanced Endometrial Cancer
Latest analysis of the results from the phase III DUO-E trial showed durvalumab plus platinum-based chemotherapy followed by durvalumab plus olaparib demonstrated an improvement in multiple key second...
ChatGPT May Accurately Answer Common Patient Questions Regarding Gynecologic Cancer
The artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot ChatGPT version 3.4 may correctly answer a majority of the common genetic counseling questions related to gynecologic oncology, according to new findings...
