This is Part 3 of Optimizing Patient Selection and Outcomes in Post-IO Advanced RCC, a three-part video roundtable series. Scroll down to watch the other videos from this roundtable. In this video, Drs. Hans Hammers, Michael Harrison, and Qian Qin discuss the treatment of metastatic renal cell...
This is Part 1 of Optimizing Patient Selection and Outcomes in Post-IO Advanced RCC, a three-part video roundtable series. Scroll down to watch the other videos from this roundtable. In this video, Drs. Hans Hammers, Michael Harrison, and Qian Qin discuss the treatment of renal cell carcinoma...
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has announced the launch of its fourth medical journal, Pediatric, Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer. This international, multidisciplinary publication will feature peer-reviewed original research and solicited content on the latest advances in cancers affecting...
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a new blood-based biomarker that can help identify and characterize asymptomatic people with Lynch syndrome who are more susceptible to developing cancer based on early immune detection signatures, allowing clinicians...
As the data continue to show, the incidence of breast, testis, and other cancers are on the rise in adolescent and young adults (AYAs) between the ages of 15 and 39, with increases of 30% over the last 4 decades.1 And while potential explanations for this rapid increase have included obesity,...
In collaboration with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Munich Leukemia Laboratory, the American Society for Hematology has introduced the ASH HematOmics Program (ASHOP), which may be one of the most comprehensive collections of blood cancer data ever to accelerate discovery, according...
In a phase I trial reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Park et al identified the toxicity profile and preliminary antitumor activity of setidegrasib, a first-in-class KRAS G12D–targeted protein degrader, in patients with previously treated advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or ...
A new study published by Jaoude et al in Clinical Cancer Research demonstrates that a specialized high-dose type of radiation delivery may significantly improve outcomes for patients with large bile duct tumors in the liver, known as intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. The retrospective study was led ...
A new analysis from Phesi, a data analytics company, of 65,061 globally recruiting clinical trials across 186 countries has found that 4,361 studies—equivalent to 6.7% of all active trials—are impacted by disruption in the Middle East. Across a total of 356,699 recruiting investigator sites, 7,958...
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) brought together more than a thousand oncology professionals at the NCCN 2026 Annual Conference in Orlando, with hundreds more joining virtually. This year’s event featured educational sessions on breakthroughs in cancer prevention and treatment,...
Prompting strategies on two large language models improved how the artificial intelligence (AI) interpreted pain and fatigue reported by survivors of childhood cancers for better symptom monitoring and care, according to findings published in Communications Medicine. The study authors noted that...
Many people with lung cancer can be treated with a highly precise, high dose of radiation given in just one session without compromising the effectiveness of the treatment. The treatment strategy, outlined in a new publication authored by Singh et al in the International Journal of Radiation...
Fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream of patients with breast cancer may predict whether they are likely to experience relapse—especially when samples are taken after the patients have received treatments prior to surgery. Findings presented at the 15th European Breast Cancer...
Results from the OASIS 4 clinical trial showed that elinzanetant, a neurokinin-targeted therapy, relieved hot flashes and night sweats that can occur because of menopause or hormone treatment for breast cancer. These findings were published in June 2025 in The New England Journal of Medicine. Now,...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Langley et al, a UK phase III trial (PATCH/STAMPEDE-1) has shown noninferiority in metastasis-free survival with the use of transdermal estradiol (tE2) patches vs luteinizing hormone–releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist treatment in men with locally ...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Sinicrope et al, the phase III ATOMIC trial has shown that the addition of adjuvant atezolizumab to mFOLFOX6 (modified fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, and leucovorin) improved disease-free survival in patients with resected stage III mismatch...
Patients with breast cancer may be able to avoid lymphedema, which can occur after surgery to remove lymph nodes in the axilla, by having radiotherapy instead. New findings, presented at the 15th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC15) in Barcelona, suggest that axillary radiotherapy may be as...
Last week, Dartmouth Cancer Center (DCC) and Fox Chase Cancer Center announced the appointments of new directors—both experts in the treatment of lung cancer. DCC has appointed Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, as the center’s sixth director. Temple Health announced the appointment of Robert A. Winn, MD, as...
In patients with CALR exon 9–mutated myelofibrosis who were resistant or intolerant to prior Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor therapy, or ineligible for such treatment, the first-in-class mutant calreticulin–specific monoclonal antibody INCA033989, given as monotherapy or in combination with...
Researchers have developed a dynamic risk stratification tool for patients with smoldering multiple myeloma to predict their chance of progression to active multiple myeloma. The tool, called Precursor Asymptomatic Neoplasms by Group Effort Analysis–Smoldering Multiple Myeloma (PANGEA-SMM),...
Last October, the Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA) announced the launch of its collaborative artificial intelligence (AI) platform powered by federated learning to train AI models with millions of de-identified patient datasets from participating cancer centers, while maintaining patient security,...
The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to provide highly personalized oncology care for patients and improve outcomes has been decades in the making. In a 1987 editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine, pioneering nephrologist and health economist William B. Schwartz, MD,...
In an interim analysis of a Chinese phase II/III trial (ZSAB) reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Shi et al found that a neoadjuvant GOLP regimen (gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin, lenvatinib, and a PD-1 inhibitor [toripalimab]) improved event-free survival vs no neoadjuvant treatment in...
Research has uncovered that an increase in organ size from hyperplasia due to increased weight may increase the risk for several obesity-related cancers, according to findings published in Cancer Research. “People have long been told that obesity increases cancer risk, but they are rarely told...
For myelofibrosis, the treatment landscape is poised for change as new targets have emerged, and treatments are evolving beyond the standard Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors. Novel therapies are being paired with the commonly used JAK inhibitor ruxolitinib, as reflected by a wealth of studies...
On October 1, 2025, Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, PhD, celebrated the 1-year anniversary of being named President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He also holds the titles of Director of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of ...
Three education sessions presented during the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting showcased how artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly transforming cancer care from clinical trial planning and ambient scribes transcribing physician-patient conversations to therapeutic decision-making. The meeting also...
ASCO has published an updated guideline describing the latest evidence on using hematopoietic colony-stimulating factor (CSF) to support anticancer treatment, namely chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation.1 “We wanted to update these guidelines both to include the newer evidence as well as...
ASCO has released a guideline update addressing advances in the use of immunotherapy and targeted therapy for the treatment of advanced gastroesophageal cancer.1 The guideline, last updated in 2023 to include first-line therapy recommendations for patients with biomarkers such as PD-L1 and HER2,...
For myelofibrosis, the treatment landscape is poised for change as new targets have emerged, and treatments are evolving beyond the standard Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors. Novel therapies are being paired with the commonly used JAK inhibitor ruxolitinib, as reflected by a wealth of studies...
Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, with over half of Americans saying that regularly consuming alcohol increases your chances of later developing cancer, according to a new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy...
Two papers published in Nature reveal long-disregarded functions of the thymus in adulthood, showing that the overall health of the organ impacts aging and risks for cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as affecting response to immunotherapy in patients with cancer. “The thymus has been...
Patients with leptomeningeal metastasis have historically had few treatment options. Now, researchers have found a combination of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor tucatinib and the monoclonal antibody trastuzumab, plus the chemotherapy capecitabine, may improve symptoms and extend survival in some...
Overall cancer incidence is similar between women who have used medically assisted reproduction and the general population, but certain cancers may occur at slightly higher rates, according to an Australian population–based cohort study published in JAMA Network Open by Vajdic et al. The...
Where a person lives in the United States increasingly shapes their chances of developing and surviving cancer. A new large nationwide study by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) reports a long-term shift in the high cancer burden from urban to rural areas in the United States. The...
As the incidence of cancer among reproductive-age people continues to increase in the United States—with approximately one out of every 1,000 pregnancies complicated by cancer—the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) has issued its first evidence-based clinical guidance for diagnosing and...
A new analysis suggests that prostate cancer screening may compare favorably with screening for breast cancer in terms of identifying significant cancers, reducing mortality, and avoiding unnecessary harms, according to findings presented at the 2026 Annual Congress of the European Association of...
One in 10 patients who present to the emergency department with visible hematuria may die within 3 months, new research from the United Kingdom has indicated. The WASHOUT study, presented at the European Association of Urology Congress (EAU26) in London, found that a scan administered within 48...
The members of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) have elected Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, as the AACR President-elect for 2026–2027. Dr. Vonderheide will become President-Elect on Monday, April 20, during AACR’s Annual Business Meeting of Members at the AACR Annual Meeting...
The combination of the NECTIN4-directed antibody drug conjugate enfortumab vedotin-ejfv and the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab is the established first-line standard-of-care treatment for patients with locally advanced/metastatic urothelial carcinoma. The results from the randomized phase III...
A PSMA-11 PET/CT scan with gallium Ga-68 led to the identification of more aggressive prostate cancer cells in men with equivocal or nonsuspicious findings on multiparametric MRI than a standard biopsy, according to first results from the phase III PRIMARY2 trial presented at the 2026 Annual...
On March 10, 2000, it was a cold Friday morning in Washington, DC. As usual, we the oncology fellows and faculty crowded into a conference room at the NIH Clinical Center in Building 10 for our weekly conference. Before the session formally began, a senior faculty member walked in holding the New...
Romiplostim was beneficial in treating chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia, according to findings from the global phase III RECITE trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine. “This work has been nearly a decade in the making, and it is so important because there are no available...
In a study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Karpinski et al developed a new prostate cancer risk classification using PSMA-PET Prostate Cancer Molecular Imaging Standardized Evaluation (PROMISE; PPP) nomograms (PPP3) to provide prognostic values for overall survival at 3, 5, and 7 years. Study...
New research assessing the efficacy of optical genome mapping (OGM) in a group of patients with acute leukemia has demonstrated that the method provided reliable and robust analytical performance with high sensitivity and specificity in detecting genetic alterations. In nearly 20% of cases,...
Recurrence-free survival was similar between adjuvant therapy with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab and placebo in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who achieved a complete radiologic response after surgical resection or local ablation, based on the phase III KEYNOTE-937 trial.1 Presented at...
Based on results from the phase III KEYNOTE-564 study,1 adjuvant pembrolizumab is currently a standard of care for patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma who have an increased risk of recurrence following a nephrectomy. Now, results from the phase III LITESPARK-022 study investigating the...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a new platform, called the FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS), for analyzing adverse events from drugs and products. The platform consolidates multiple prior reporting systems in an effort to modernize and increase transparency into...
In a phase I trial (PYNNACLE) reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dumbrava et al described the toxicity and preliminary activity of rezatapopt in TP53 Y220C–mutated solid tumors. The agent is an investigational, first-in-class, oral, selective p53 reactivator that specifically binds to ...
Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections may prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease’s development—but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, according to new research published by Qian et al in Cell. University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine researcher Jie Sun, PhD,...