In a phase II/III study (ENRICH) reported in The Lancet, Lewis et al found that the chemotherapy-free combination of ibrutinib plus rituximab prolonged progression-free survival vs standard immunochemotherapy in patients aged 60 years or older with previously untreated mantle cell lymphoma. Study...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Morschhauser et al, the 5-year findings of the POLARIX trial showed a continued benefit with polatuzumab vedotin plus rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone (Pola-R-CHP) vs rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine,...
In a phase II trial (AMALEE) reported in JAMA Oncology, Cardoso et al found that a first-line ribociclib dose of 400 mg was not noninferior to a dose of 600 mg in patients with newly diagnosed hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer. Study Details In the open-label...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Wang et al, a phase I/II trial (KOMET-001) has shown activity of the oral menin inhibitor ziftomenib in patients with relapsed or refractory NPM1-mutant acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Study Details In the phase II portion of the trial, 92 patients...
In a linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)–Medicare analysis reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Canavan et al found that receipt of systemic anticancer therapy (SACT) at the end of life (EOL) was associated with higher rates of EOL emergency department (ED) use,...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Wieduwilt et al, findings in a cohort of the phase II Alliance study A041703 indicate that the chemotherapy-free regimen of inotuzumab ozogamicin followed by blinatumomab was highly active in patients aged ≥ 60 years with newly diagnosed B-cell...
In an international, multicenter retrospective cohort study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Xing et al found that incorporating the genetic status of BRAF and TERT genes into the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for papillary thyroid cancer resulted in a modification of...
In a French phase III trial (IFM2017-03) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Manier et al found that a dexamethasone-sparing regimen of daratumumab plus lenalidomide improved progression-free survival vs lenalidomide plus dexamethasone in patients with frailty and newly diagnosed multiple myeloma....
In a retrospective cohort study reported in JAMA Network Open, Suk et al identified the association of survival with receipt of recommended treatment and nonreceipt of nonrecommended treatment among patients aged ≥ 65 years with newly diagnosed early-stage cervical cancer. Study Details The study...
In a systematic review and meta-analysis reported in JAMA Oncology, Huang et al found that patient-reported outcomes (PROs) provide prognostic information for overall survival in patients with cancer. Study Details A systematic review of studies published between January 2000 and June 2024 was...
In a Brazilian phase II trial (HERCULES; LACOG 0218) reported in JAMA Oncology, Maluf et al found that pembrolizumab plus platinum-based chemotherapy showed activity in patients with advanced penile squamous cell carcinoma. The investigators explained, “Advanced penile squamous cell carcinoma is...
In a phase II trial (WU-KONG1B) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Yang et al found that the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunvozertinib was active at both dose levels tested in patients with platinum-pretreated non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations....
In a study reported in JAMA Oncology, Pickersgill et al found that individuals without prostate cancer undergoing annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing often exhibited a PSA level below biopsy threshold in the year following an elevated test result. Study Details The study involved data on ...
In an analysis reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Germani et al identified the impact of HER2 status in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) receiving chemotherapy plus either bevacizumab or anti-EGFR agents. Study Details The study involved data from 1,604 patients with...
In an analysis reported in The Lancet Oncology by Gui et al in the International Consortium on Meningiomas, TERT expression in meningiomas was found to be associated with poorer progression-free survival. Study Details The multi-institutional cohort study involved retrospectively collected data...
In a study (BMT CTN 1702) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lee et al found little difference in 2-year survival outcomes between patients considered “very likely” vs “very unlikely” to find an HLA-matched unrelated donor (MUD) for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation as...
In a phase II trial (PASS-01) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Knox et al found similar progression-free survival with modified leucovorin, fluorouracil, irinotecan, oxaliplatin (mFOLFIRINOX) vs gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel in patients with previously untreated metastatic pancreatic...
In a phase III trial (TrilynX) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Bourhis et al found that the addition of xevinapant (an inhibitor of apoptosis proteins inhibitor) to platinum-based chemoradiotherapy did not improve event-free survival in patients with unresected locally advanced...
In a Scandinavian trial (ALASCCA) reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Martling et al found that low-dose aspirin reduced the risk of disease recurrence vs placebo in patients with PI3K-altered localized colorectal cancer. Study Details In the double-blind trial, patients with stage I...
In a Dutch phase III trial (PREOPANC-2) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Janssen et al found no difference in overall survival between patients receiving neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX vs neoadjuvant gemcitabine-based chemoradiotherapy for resectable or borderline resectable pancreatic ductal...
In a study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Smith-Bindman et al found that medical imaging among children was associated with a significantly increased risk of pediatric and adolescent hematologic cancer. The study involved data from a retrospective cohort of 3,724,623 children born ...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Yang et al, the final overall survival analysis in the phase III MARIPOSA trial has shown significant benefit with amivantamab plus lazertinib vs osimertinib in patients with previously untreated EGFR-mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer...
In a phase II trial (Alliance A021202) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Bergsland et al found that pazopanib prolonged progression-free survival vs placebo in patients with advanced extrapancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (epNETs). However, as stated by the investigators, pazopanib will...
In a single-center phase II trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Tang et al found that metastasis-directed radiotherapy without systemic therapy was associated with good outcomes in patients with oligometastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Study Details In the trial, 121 patients...
In an interim analysis of a phase II trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Yang et al found that proton craniospinal irradiation (pCSI) improved central nervous system (CNS) progression-free survival vs photon involved-field radiotherapy (IFRT) in patients who have breast cancer or non–small cell lung...
In a U.S. cohort study reported in JAMA Oncology, Suzuki et al assessed long-term survival among premenopausal women with clinical stage I endometrioid endometrial cancer treated with fertility-preserving hormonal therapy vs hysterectomy. Study Details The study focused on National Cancer Database...
In a preplanned 10-year analysis from the phase III PORTEC-3 trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Post et al found that adjuvant chemoradiotherapy was associated with improved overall survival and recurrence-free survival vs radiotherapy in women with high-risk endometrial cancer. Study Details...
In a U.S. two-center phase III trial (MC1675) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Ma et al found that de-escalated adjuvant radiotherapy was associated with a reduced cumulative, chronic grade ≥ 3 toxicity rate at 3 to 24 months after radiotherapy compared with standard adjuvant treatment in patients...
In a Canadian phase II trial (GROUQ-PCS 9) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Niazi et al found that the addition of metastasis-directed stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to standard systemic therapy improved radiographic progression-free survival in patients with oligometastatic...
In an interim analysis of a Chinese phase III trial (ETER100) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Zhou et al found that the combination of the PD-L1 inhibitor benmelstobart and anlotinib improved progression-free survival vs sunitinib in the first-line treatment of advanced clear cell renal cell...
In a meta-analysis reported in JAMA Network Open, Lei et al found a small nonsignificant increase in off-target mortality from noncancer causes or cancers that were not the target of screening in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with screened and unscreened populations. As stated by the...
In a Chinese phase II trial (ZSAB-TransGOLP) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Shi et al found promising results with tislelizumab plus lenvatinib and GEMOX (gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin) chemotherapy (GOLP) in converting unresectable locally advanced biliary tract cancer to resectable disease....
In an interim analysis of a phase II trial (SunRISe-4) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Necchi et al found that the addition of neoadjuvant TAR-200—a targeted releasing system that provides sustained delivery of gemcitabine within the bladder—to the PD-1 inhibitor cetrelimab resulted in a higher...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Platzbecker et al, the European intergroup phase III APOLLO trial showed that an all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) plus arsenic trioxide (ATO; ATRA-ATO)–based regimen was associated with improved event-free survival vs a standard ATRA plus...
In a retrospective study reported in JAMA Oncology, Dai et al found that use of GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) for weight loss in adults with overweight/obesity was associated with an overall reduction in risk of cancer. As stated by the investigators, “…GLP-1 RAs… are widely prescribed for...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Bidard et al developed a model that may identify a subgroup of patients with clinical high-risk estrogen receptor (ER)-positive/HER2-negative early breast cancer who might derive no additional distant recurrence benefit from escalation of adjuvant...
In a study (INSPiRED 006) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cai et al found that an artificial intelligence–guided shear wave elastography (AI-SWE) model provided accuracy similar to expert reading of B-mode ultrasound in the diagnosis of breast cancer in women with Breast Imaging...
In a U.S. state-level study reported as a research letter in JAMA Oncology, Garg et al found that awareness of human papillomavirus (HPV), HPV vaccination, and the association between HPV infection and development of cancers was “overwhelmingly low.” As stated by the investigators, “Each year, an...
In a Chinese single-center phase II trial (SPRING-01) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Tian et al found that the addition of the PD-1 inhibitor sintilimab to chemotherapy following short-course radiotherapy as part of total neoadjuvant treatment significantly improved the pathologic complete...
In a German phase III trial (CONKO-007) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology,1Rainer Fietkau, MD, of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany, and colleagues found that adding chemoradiotherapy to chemotherapy vs...
In a pooled analysis of the Italian Sarcoma Group (ISG/OS-2) and Spanish Sarcoma Group (GEIS-33) trials reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Palmerini et al found evidence of activity with the addition of mifamurtide to chemotherapy in patients with nonmetastatic high-grade osteosarcoma...
In an interim analysis of a National Institutes of Health phase II study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lin et al found that lutetium Lu-177 dotatate (Lu-177 dotatate) was active in progressive metastatic pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs). As stated by the investigators,...
In a study reported as a research letter in JAMA Network Open, Amboree identified U.S. counties with low or high cervical cancer screening coverage and associated risks of cervical cancer incidence and mortality. As stated by the investigators, “Recent research shows that cervical cancer incidence...
In an analysis from the Children’s Oncology Group ALTE03N1 Study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Zhou et al found a fourfold increased risk of subsequent neoplasms (SNs) among childhood cancer survivors with germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) mutations. Study Details The...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Shitara et al, the final overall survival analysis from the phase III KEYNOTE-585 study showed a numeric—but statistically nonsignificant—benefit with pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy in perioperative therapy for patients with...
In a German single-center phase II trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Pabst et al found that use of the fibroblast activation protein α (FAP)–directed radiotracer Ga-68–FAPi-46 for positron-emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) has shown promising ability to identify FAP-expressing...
As reported in The Lancet by Barlesi et al, the phase III KRYSTAL-12 trial has shown a significant progression-free survival benefit with adagrasib over docetaxel in patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Study Details...
In a study reported in JAMA Network Open, Balmaceda et al found that rural patients in North Carolina with newly diagnosed prostate cancer were more likely to experience biochemical recurrence than were urban patients. Study Details This cohort study used data from the North Carolina Prostate...
In an analysis from the phase III CodeBreaK 300 study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Modest et al found that sotorasib and panitumumab were associated with better patient-reported outcomes (PROs) than standard of care (SOC) with trifluridine plus tipiracil or regorafenib in patients with KRAS...
In a Chinese phase III trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Xue et al found that sequential chemoradiotherapy (SCRT) was noninferior to induction chemotherapy (IC) plus concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) in terms of failure-free survival in patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal...