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Showing 1601 - 1650Ruxolitinib for Patients With Polycythemia Vera Intolerant or Resistant to Hydroxycarbamide
In a UK phase II trial (MAJIC-PV) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Harrison et al found that ruxolitinib produced a higher complete response rate vs best available therapy in patients with polycythemia vera intolerant of or resistant to hydroxycarbamide. Study Details In the...
Lenalidomide in Previously Treated Children With Low-Grade Gliomas
In a Children’s Oncology Group phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Katherine E. Warren, MD, and colleagues found that lenalidomide showed activity in children with pilocytic astrocytomas and optic pathway gliomas who did not respond to initial therapy. As noted by the...
Abiraterone Acetate Plus Prednisolone With or Without Enzalutamide in Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Initiating ADT
In an analysis of the final results of two STAMPEDE platform phase III trials reported in The Lancet Oncology, Gerhardt Attard, PhD, and colleagues found that the addition of enzalutamide to abiraterone plus prednisolone did not appear to improve survival outcomes and was associated with worse...
ARTISTRY-7 and ROSELLA: Phase III Trials to Evaluate Novel Agents in Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer
Platinum resistance occurs in almost all patients whose ovarian cancer recurs. Single-agent chemotherapies are commonly used in this setting, but outcomes are generally poor, leaving a large unmet need for effective treatment. At the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) 2023 Annual Meeting on...
Expert Point of View: Carol Aghajanian, MD
Carol Aghajanian, MD, Chief of the Gynecologic Medical Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, commented on the final analysis of NOVA for The ASCO Post. She highlighted the difficulty in truly measuring overall survival in recurrent ovarian cancer. Dr. Aghajanian also ...
GOG 3026: Durable Responses With Ribociclib Plus Letrozole in Low-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer
In patients with recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer, treatment with ribociclib plus letrozole was not only active, but led to outcomes that are comparable to those achieved with current agents—with a particularly striking 19-month duration of response—according to Brian M. Slomovitz, MD,...
Final SORAYA Analysis Supports Mirvetuximab Soravtansine in Ovarian Cancer
Treatment with the folate receptor alpha (FRα)-targeted antibody-drug conjugate mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx benefited patients with FRα-high, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, even after multiple lines of prior therapy, according to an updated analysis of the SORAYA trial presented at the...
SGO Presentations Explore Inequitable Access to Clinical Trials and Its Impact on Survival
Two studies presented at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) 2023 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer underscore the importance of enrolling patients with gynecologic cancer on clinical trials and of assuring trial access to racial minorities. One study found a statistically significant...
Expert Point of View: Rebecca Arend, MD, MSH and Ilaria Colombo, MD
“Endometrial cancer is the most frequently diagnosed gynecologic malignancy in the United States, and it is the only one where the mortality has actually risen over the past 40 years,” noted Rebecca Arend, MD, MSH, Associate Professor at the University of Alabama and Associate Scientist in the...
Checkpoint Inhibitors Poised to Change Standard of Care in Advanced Endometrial Cancer
The addition of a checkpoint inhibitor to standard chemotherapy as first-line treatment of advanced endometrial cancer reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 70% in patients with mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR) tumors in two recent phase III studies. The results of the two...
Highlights of the SGO 2023 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer
The sun was out, and the weather was beautiful for the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) 2023 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer held in Tampa, Florida, in March 2023. Participants came from across the world for this second hybrid gathering since the COVID-19 pandemic to share ongoing advances in ...
Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy: Principles and Practice
The ASCO Post is pleased to present Hematology Expert Review, an ongoing feature that quizzes readers on issues in hematology. In this installment, we begin a new series of articles on cancer immunology and immunotherapy, in which the authors discuss how immunotherapy has become a major pillar of...
Detection of Early Emphysema During Lung Cancer Screening: Opportunities to Optimize Health
In an article in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, James L. Mulshine, MD, of the Center for Healthy Aging, Department of Medicine, Rush University, and colleagues maintained that the high frequency of emphysema newly identified during low-dose computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening...
ASCO Releases Guideline Updates for Stage IV NSCLC With and Without Driver Alterations
ASCO has updated two living guidelines on the systemic treatment of stage IV non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with and without driver alterations with the inclusion of new evidence-based treatment recommendations.1,2 Among the updates, the guidelines add the recently approved RAS GTPase family...
Novel Hormone Receptor–Driven Therapies Tackling Endocrine Resistance in Breast Cancer
In hormone receptor–positive metastatic breast cancer, tumors eventually become resistant not only to endocrine blockade but to inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 (CDK4/6). This obstacle to successful treatment is being tackled with novel hormone receptor–directed therapies, with the...
Expert Point of View: Daniel SW Tan, BSc, MBBS, PhD
Invited discussant of the phase II APPLE trial, Daniel SW Tan, BSc, MBBS, PhD, of the National Cancer Centre Singapore, noted that 17% of patients have had only molecular disease progression and were switched over to the sequential strategy. “This may be in some parts related to the sensitivity of...
CodeBreaK 200: Sotorasib Offers Improved Quality of Life for Patients With Previously Treated NSCLC
The latest research on sotorasib, a targeted therapy for KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), reveals that patients may experience better quality of life while benefiting from improved clinical outcomes. Analysis of patient-reported outcomes presented during the European Lung...
Final SORAYA Analysis Supports Mirvetuximab Soravtansine in Ovarian Cancer
Treatment with the folate receptor alpha (FRα)-targeted antibody-drug conjugate mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx benefited patients with FRα-high, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, even after multiple lines of prior therapy, according to an updated analysis of the SORAYA trial presented at the...
Pain Control for Localized Spine Metastases: Stereotactic Radiosurgery vs Conventional Radiotherapy
As reported in JAMA Oncology by Ryu et al, the phase III portion of the NRG Oncology/RTOG 0631 trial showed no benefit in pain relief with use of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) vs conventional external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) in patients with one to three sites of vertebral metastases. Study...
Lung Cancer Screening and Possible Unappreciated Benefits
Screening that reduces cancer mortality serves as a foundational element of impactful care for certain cancers. That said, harms related to screening deserve our attention—overdiagnoses; diagnostic odysseys that may be invasive, expensive, or even unintentionally harmful; overtreatment of diagnosed ...
AEGEAN Trial Shows Benefit With Immunotherapy-Based Combination for NSCLC
Patients with treatment-naive resectable non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with neoadjuvant durvalumab plus chemotherapy and adjuvant durvalumab monotherapy had improved event-free survival and pathologic complete response rates compared with those who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy...
Antibacterial Treatment May Resolve Acute Radiation Dermatitis in Patients With Breast Cancer Undergoing Radiation Therapy
Researchers have found that acute radiation dermatitis may involve the skin bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and that a simple, low-cost treatment may prevent severe cases in patients undergoing radiation therapy, according to two novel studies published by Kost et al—one a randomized clinical trial ...
Induction Failure in Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With T-Cell ALL
In an analysis reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, O’Connor et al found that pediatric and young adult patients with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) who did not respond to induction therapy had poorer outcomes vs those with induction response. The investigators also attempted...
Expert Point of View: Rachna T. Shroff, MD
Formal discussant of this trial at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Rachna T. Shroff, MD, Associate Professor, Interim Chief of Hematology/Oncology, and Associate Director of Clinical Investigations, University of Arizona Cancer Center, said: “This is a very important...
Immunotherapy/Chemotherapy Combination Prolongs Survival in Advanced Biliary Tract Cancers
The addition of the checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab to chemotherapy with cisplatin/gemcitabine as first-line therapy improved overall survival in patients with advanced biliary tract cancer, according to results of the KEYNOTE-966 trial presented at the 2023 American Association for Cancer...
Sotorasib in Pretreated Patients With KRAS G12C–Mutated NSCLC: 2-Year Analysis of CodeBreaK100
In an analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Grace K. Dy, MD, and colleagues report 2-year outcomes of the CodeBreaK100 phase I/II trial of sotorasib in previously treated patients with KRAS G12C–mutated locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). According...
KRYSTAL-1 Update: Adagrasib Yields Benefit in Variety of KRAS G12C–Mutated Tumors
In the phase I/II KRYSTAL-1 trial, the KRAS inhibitor adagrasib demonstrated clinical activity in previously treated patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, biliary tract cancer, and other solid tumors harboring KRAS G12C mutations, according to research presented at the ASCO Plenary Series ...
Newly Identified Risk Factors May Point to a Heightened Risk for Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Among Younger Adult Patients
Researchers have identified four warning signs and symptoms that may indicate an elevated risk of early-onset colorectal cancer, according to a new study published by Fritz et al in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The findings may be key to helping physicians more effectively detect...
Novel AI Model Offers Potential for Earlier Lung Cancer Diagnoses
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model could help physicians diagnose lung cancer earlier, according to a study published by Hunter et al in eBioMedicine. The findings suggested that the new model may yield a diagnosis more quickly and potentially more accurately than two existing risk assessment ...
Addition of Tislelizumab to Chemotherapy in First-Line Treatment of Advanced or Metastatic Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Xu et al, an interim analysis of the phase III RATIONALE-306 trial has shown improved overall survival with the addition of the anti–PD-1 antibody tislelizumab to chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell...
Addition of Blinatumomab to Chemotherapy in Infant Patients With KMT2A-Rearranged ALL
In a phase II trial reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, van der Sluis et al found that the addition of blinatumomab—a bispecific T-cell engager molecule targeting CD19—to standard chemotherapy appeared to result in marked improvements in outcome among infants with KMT2A-rearranged...
Survival in Patients With Neuroblastoma on Reduced Therapy as a Result of Change in COG Risk Stratification
In an analysis reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Bender et al found that “excellent” survival outcomes were achieved in patients receiving reduced treatment for neuroblastoma as a result of reassignment to intermediate risk from high risk based on a change in the minimum age for...
Clonal Hematopoiesis Risk Score for Myeloid Neoplasms in Patients With Myeloid Precursor Conditions
As reported in NEJM Evidence, Weeks et al identified a clonal hematopoiesis risk score for prediction of risk for myeloid neoplasms among individuals with clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) and clonal cytopenia of undetermined significance (CCUS). As stated by the investigators, ...
First-Line Zolbetuximab Plus mFOLFOX6 in CLDN18.2-Positive, HER2-Negative Advanced Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma
As reported in The Lancet by Kohei Shitara, MD, and colleagues, the phase III SPOTLIGHT trial has shown significantly prolonged progression-free and overall survival with the addition of the anti–claudin-18 isoform 2 (CLDN18.2) antibody zolbetuximab to mFOLFOX6 (modified leucovorin [or...
AI-Based Decision Support Systems for Mammography
Incorrect advice offered by an artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision support system could impair the performance of radiologists at every level of expertise when reading mammograms, according to a new study published by Dratsch et al in Radiology. Background Often touted as a “second set of...
Researchers Study Genetic Changes Across Multiple Organs of Metastatic Melanoma
Researchers have found that studying the landscape of DNA and RNA alterations across multiple organs of metastasis may provide a new direction in cancer therapeutics to address treatment failure, according to a new study published by Liu et al in Nature Medicine. The new findings from analyzing...
Preoperative MRI Scans May Not Reduce Positive Margins and Reoperations in Patients With Breast Cancer Undergoing Lumpectomy
Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were not associated with a reduction in positive margins at the tumor site or in the need to reoperate to help ensure complete tumor excision in patients with breast cancer undergoing lumpectomy, according to new findings presented by Cairns et al ...
Intraoperative vs Postoperative Lymph Node Pathology Evaluation in Patients With Breast Cancer Undergoing Mastectomy
Patients who underwent pathology evaluation of their sentinel lymph nodes during mastectomy surgery may have been significantly more likely to receive aggressive nodal therapy than patients whose lymph node biopsies and treatment strategies were evaluated after surgery. The new findings were...
Exercise and Wellness Programs May Enhance Well-Being and Reduce Health-Care Costs in Patients With Breast Cancer
Two new studies revealed that specialized exercise and wellness programs may significantly increase physical well-being and quality of life as well as reduce health-care costs in patients with breast cancer, according to findings presented by Wonders et al and Brahmbhatt et al at the 24th American...
Expert Point of View: Kathleen Moore, MD, MS
“I think the NOW trial is a great study,” said Kathleen Moore, MD, MS, the Virginia Kerley Cade Endowed Chair in Cancer Developmental Therapeutics and Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, who shared her thoughts on the trial with...
In BRCA-Mutated Ovarian Cancer, Neoadjuvant Olaparib Feasible, Appears Effective in Pilot Study
Encouraging outcomes were achieved in patients with BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer who received neoadjuvant treatment with olaparib in a feasibility study led by Shannon N. Westin, MD, MPH, Professor in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine at The University of Texas MD...
Extended Antibiotic Prophylaxis May Not Prevent Infections, Improve Outcomes in Patients With Breast Cancer Undergoing Postmastectomy Breast Reconstruction
Prescribing extended antibiotic prophylaxis may not reduce the risk of infections in patients with breast cancer undergoing breast reconstruction following mastectomy, according to a new study published by Sisco et al in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. "Our experience suggests that...
Study Explores Impact of Radiation Therapy on Immune Cells and Tumor Cells in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Researchers may have shed light on how radiation therapy impacts immune cells and tumor cells in renal cell carcinoma, according to a novel study published by Chow et al in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. The new findings may provide key information for planning treatment regimens that...
Long-Term Cardiac Safety and Efficacy of SB3 Trastuzumab Biosimilar vs Reference Trastuzumab in HER2-Positive Early Breast Cancer
In a secondary analysis of the phase III SB3-G31-BC trial, Pivot et al found that perioperative use of the trastuzumab biosimilar SB3 was associated with a similar cardiac safety profile and similar efficacy outcomes compared with reference trastuzumab after up to 6 years of follow-up in patients...
Trastuzumab Deruxtecan vs Physician’s Choice in HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Previously Treated With Trastuzumab Emtansine
As reported in The Lancet by André et al, the phase III DESTINY-Breast02 trial has shown improved progression-free survival with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki vs physician’s choice of treatment in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who had received prior ado-trastuzumab...
KRYSTAL-1 Update: Adagrasib Yields Benefit in Variety of KRAS G12C–Mutated Tumors
In the phase I/II KRYSTAL-1 trial, the KRAS inhibitor adagrasib demonstrated promising clinical activity in previously treated patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, biliary tract cancer, and other solid tumors harboring KRAS G12C mutations, according to research presented at the April...
Financial Impact on Caregivers of Spouses With Cancer
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Bradley et al found that approximately one-third of caregivers of spouses with cancer reported they had stopped working and had increased household debt. In the subgroup with a lower-than-median household income, cancer caregivers were more...
Homage to a Giant in Hematology: The Fascinating Story of the Quest to Cure Leukemia
Bone marrow transplantation in leukemia is one of the great success stories in the history of oncology, as is that of the late Nobel Laureate E. Donnall Thomas, MD, the pioneering clinical researcher whose name is synonymous with life-saving marrow transplantation. Dr. Thomas, who was born in the...
ASCO Member Testifies Before Congress, Urging Significant Increase in Federal Cancer Research Funding
Brian Persing, MD, a medical oncologist and hematologist in Mobile, Alabama, and a member of ASCO, the world’s leading professional organization representing nearly 45,000 oncology professionals, testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor Health and Human Services and...
Emerging Success With Novel Targeted Therapies in Endocrine-Resistant Metastatic Breast Cancer
In hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, the ability to successfully target key mediators of endocrine resistance is changing the outlook of metastatic disease in this subtype, according to Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, FASCO, Director of Breast Cancer Research and Associate Professor at Harvard...
