In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Josephine M.N. Lopes Cardozo, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that a higher score on a polygenic risk score consisting of 313 common genetic variants (the PRS313) was generally associated with more favorable tumor characteristics in patients...
In a U.S. cohort study reported in JAMA Oncology, Voruganti et al found that the uptake of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been associated with “modest” improvements in overall survival, particularly among older patients. As...
In a study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Bhatia et al found that boys were significantly more likely than girls to be diagnosed with childhood cancers in India. Study Details The retrospective multicohort study involved individual data from patients aged 0 to 19 years from hospital-based records ...
In a study reported in JAMA Oncology, Aranzazu Fernandez-Martinez, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that several B-cell–related gene signatures provided better prediction of pathologic complete response and event-free survival than tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) levels among patients with...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Corey W. Speers, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that the sensitivity to endocrine therapy (SET2,3) index and the 21-gene breast recurrence score (RS) were not correlated in defining prognosis among postmenopausal patients with estrogen...
In a Japanese phase III trial (JCOG1202, ASCOT) reported in The Lancet, Nakachi et al found that adjuvant S-1 was associated with significantly improved overall survival vs observation in patients with resected biliary tract cancer. Study Details The multicenter, open-label trial included 440...
In a Chinese phase III trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Li et al found that adjuvant hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with FOLFOX (fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin) significantly improved disease-free survival vs routine follow-up in patients with hepatocellular...
In a study reported in JAMA Oncology, McDonald et al found that receipt of blood or marrow transplantation (BMT) was associated with an increased risk of subsequent malignant neoplasms of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. As stated by the investigators, “Survivors of BMT are at increased risk of...
In a phase II trial (NRG/RTOG 0912) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Sherman et al found that the addition of pazopanib to concurrent radiotherapy and paclitaxel did not improve overall survival in patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer. Study Details In the U.S. multicenter, double-blind trial,...
In a study reported in a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine, Mata et al found that U.S. individuals of African ancestry and Hispanic patients made up an increasing proportion of patients undergoing next-generation sequencing of tumor samples over a 9-year period ending in...
In a study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Wang et al identified mutations linked to high tumor mutation burden in microsatellite-stable (MSS) gastrointestinal cancers that may be associated with efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. Study Details Molecular alterations in 48,606...
As reported in The Lancet by Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, and colleagues, updated results of the phase III DESTINY-Breast03 trial showed significantly improved overall survival with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (T-DXd) vs ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in patients with HER2-positive unresectable or...
In a Taiwanese study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Hsu et al found that survivors of childhood and adolescent cancers were at a significantly increased risk of multiple major psychiatric disorders compared to those without cancer. Study Details The study used data from a...
On December 16, 2022, nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg, an adenoviral vector–based gene therapy, was approved for patients with high-risk bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer with carcinoma in situ with or without papillary tumors.1 Supporting Efficacy Data...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Pieter Sonneveld, MD, PhD, of Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues, the final overall survival analysis of the phase III CASTOR trial has shown a significant benefit of the addition of daratumumab to...
In a study reported in JACC: CardioOncology, Lavanya Kondapalli, MD, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, and colleagues found that cardiovascular events common in the general population were observed both prior to and after the initiation of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy ...
In a single academic hospital network retrospective case-control study reported in JACC:CardioOncology, Charlotte Lee, MD, of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, along with senior author Tomas Neilan, MD, MPH, of Massachusetts General Hospital and colleagues found that patients...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Paolo A. Ascierto, MD, of the Istituto Nazionale Tumori Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Pascale, Naples, and colleagues, the second interim overall survival analysis of the phase III IMspire150 trial has shown a numeric but...
In a retrospective study of the real-world use of idecabtagene vicleucel reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Hansen et al found that response rates and toxicity in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma were comparable to those in the pivotal phase II KarMMa trial; the...
In a study (Advancing Survivors Knowledge; ASK) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Geller et al found that three patient- and patient/physician-based interventions to improve skin cancer surveillance among childhood cancer survivors treated with radiotherapy resulted in increased rates...
In a retrospective, observational case series study reported in JAMA Oncology, Emile et al identified changes in the stage at diagnosis, treatments, and outcomes in U.S. patients with rectal adenocarcinoma diagnosed between 2004 and 2019. Study Details The study used National Cancer Database data...
In the DBTUST study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Berg et al found that the addition of screening ultrasound to digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) improved detection of cancer in patients with dense breasts—but also increased the rate of false-positive findings. Study Details In the ...
In a phase II trial (S1416) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Rodler et al found that the addition of the poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor veliparib to cisplatin significantly improved progression-free survival in patients with germline BRCA1/2 wild-type advanced triple-negative breast...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Miklos et al, the phase III iNTEGRATE trial showed no benefit of the addition of ibrutinib to prednisone in the first-line treatment of moderate or severe chronic graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation....
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Meduri et al, a 5-year analysis from the phase III IRMA trial has shown higher rates of adverse cosmesis and some late toxicities with external-beam accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) vs whole-breast irradiation (WBI) in women with stage ...
In an analysis reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vicky Makker, MD, and colleagues provided updated findings from the phase Ib/II Study 111/KEYNOTE-146 trial of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab in previously treated patients with advanced endometrial carcinoma. The study supported the...
On December 1, 2022, the IDH1 inhibitor olutasidenib was approved for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia with a susceptible IDH1 mutation, as detected by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved test.1 The FDA simultaneously approved the Abbott...
In a phase II study (FOENIX-CCA2) published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Lipika Goyal, MD, and colleagues found that the next-generation, covalently binding FGFR1-4 inhibitor futibatinib showed activity in previously treated patients with unresectable or metastatic FGFR2-altered...
On October 21, 2022, tremelimu-mab-actl was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in combination with durvalumab in the treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.1 Supporting Efficacy Data Approval was based on a comparison of overall survival in the...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Yadav et al estimated the risk of contralateral breast cancer among patients with invasive breast cancer and germline pathogenic variants in ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and PALB2. Study Details The study population consisted of 15,104...
In a European retrospective cohort study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Nesti et al found evidence that right-sided hemicolectomy is not indicated in patients who had complete resection, via appendectomy, of appendiceal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) measuring 1 to 2 cm. As stated by the...
In a phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Coleman et al found that neoadjuvant split-dose gemcitabine and cisplatin produced a high rate of pathologic response in patients with high-risk localized upper tract urothelial carcinoma. The investigators also showed that...
In the single-center phase III MIRAGE trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Amar U. Kishan, MD, and colleagues found that use of margin reduction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) resulted in significantly reduced acute genitourinary (GU) and...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Dominik Dytfeld, MD, PhD, and colleagues, an unplanned interim analysis of the phase III ATLAS trial has shown improved progression-free survival with carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (KRd) vs lenalidomide alone as maintenance after autologous stem...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Jeffrey Bogart, MD, and colleagues, the phase III CALGB 30610/RTOG 0538 trial has shown no significant difference in overall survival with 70-Gy once-daily vs 45-Gy twice-daily radiotherapy in a chemoradiotherapy regimen for limited-stage small...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Wang et al found that a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in ROBO2 was associated with an increased risk of cardiomyopathy among childhood cancer survivors receiving higher cumulative anthracycline doses. As stated by the investigators,...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Olivia Pagani, MD, and colleagues, 13-year follow-up in a combined analysis of the phase III TEXT and SOFT trials has shown continued disease-free survival and distant recurrence–free interval benefit—but no overall survival benefit—with exemestane ...
In a single-center phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Ludford et al found that neoadjuvant pembrolizumab produced a high pathologic complete response rate and radiographic objective response rate in patients with localized microsatellite instability–high/mismatch...
In a German study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Mutter et al found that circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) identified prior to and during treatment was associated with poorer outcomes in patients with central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma. Study Details The study included 92 patients...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Ji et al found that Medicaid expansion through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been associated with improved 2-year survival among young adults with cancer, with greater benefits observed in patients with breast cancer, those with stage IV...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Catherine Thieblemont, MD, PhD, and colleagues, findings in a dose-expansion cohort of the phase I/II EPCORE NHL-1 study indicated high activity of the subcutaneous CD3 x CD20 T-cell–engaging bispecific antibody epcoritamab in patients with...
In a study reported in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Ali et al found that U.S. sales of e-cigarettes have increased, marked by sales of products with higher nicotine strength, and that prices have increased for products with lower nicotine strength while decreasing or not significantly changing...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Schmid et al identified risk factors for local failure in patients receiving chemoradiation and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided brachytherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer. Study Details The study used data from the EMBRACE-I...
In the population-based SURVCAN-3 study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Soerjomataram et al identified cancer survival rates in 32 countries in Africa, Central and South America, and Asia. They found that disparities for many cancer types reflect the standing of countries according to the Human...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Erker et al identified factors associated with better postrelapse survival among infants and young children with medulloblastoma relapsing after initial craniospinal irradiation (CSI)-sparing curative-intent treatment. These factors included...
In the phase I/II CodeBreaK 100 trial reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, John H. Strickler, MD, and colleagues found that the KRAS G12C inhibitor sotorasib showed activity in previously treated patients with advanced pancreatic cancer and a KRAS G12C mutation. Study Details In the...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Meletios A. Dimopoulos, MD, and colleagues, the final overall survival analysis of the pivotal phase III POLLUX trial has shown a significant benefit with the addition of daratumumab to lenalidomide and dexamethasone after a median follow-up of...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sjöström et al identified a 16-gene signature—Profile for the Omission of Local Adjuvant Radiation, or POLAR—that predicted low likelihood of benefit from adjuvant radiotherapy in preventing locoregional recurrence in patients with...
In a retrospective matched-cohort study reported in JAMA Oncology, Sugawara et al found that receipt of adjuvant chemotherapy improved survival vs no adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma who received curative-intent surgery following multiagent neoadjuvant chemotherapy....
In the phase I/II KRYSTAL-1 trial reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Rona Yaeger, MD, and colleagues found that the KRAS G12C inhibitor adagrasib showed activity alone and in combination with cetuximab in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and mutated KRAS...