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integrative oncology
palliative care

Escalation of Oncology Services at End of Life May Be Moderated by Coordinated Care

“Use of oncology-related services is increasingly scrutinized, yet precisely which services are actually rendered to patients, particularly at the end of life, is unknown,” noted an article in the Journal of Oncology Practice. To address this knowledge gap, Eijean Wu, MD, of the Los Angeles County...

lung cancer
pancreatic cancer
geriatric oncology

Chemotherapy Trial Results Overestimate Survival for Elderly Medicare Patients With Lung and Pancreatic Cancers

Results of clinical trials evaluating chemotherapy regimens for advanced pancreatic and lung cancers “tended to correctly estimate survival for Medicare patients aged 65 to 74 years but to overestimate survival for older Medicare patients by 6 to 8 weeks,” Elizabeth B. Lamont, MD, MS, of...

cns cancers

Clinical Trials Actively Recruiting Patients With Neuroblastoma

The information contained in this Clinical Trials Resource Guide includes actively recruiting clinical studies for patients with newly diagnosed or relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma. The studies include pilot, observational, phase I, phase II, and phase III trials investigating single-agent and...

breast cancer

Cancer Has Left an Indelible Mark on Me

Even though today I’m cancer-free, the experience of getting a cancer diagnosis and going through treatment leaves an indelible mark on your psyche—as well as your body—that time doesn’t erase. Once you have cancer, you become a cancer survivor, and that status doesn’t change. I’ve known many...

gynecologic cancers

Robert Coleman, MD, Begins SGO and Foundation Presidency

Robert L. Coleman, MD, Professor, Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, started his 1-year term as the 47th President of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) and 5th President of the Foundation for Gynecologic...

colorectal cancer

FDA Approves Ramucirumab for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved ramucirumab (Cyramza) for use in combination with FOLFIRI (leuco­vorin, fluorouracil, irinotecan) for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer whose disease has progressed on a first-line bevacizumab (Avastin)-,...

gynecologic cancers
issues in oncology

Bombarded With Changes in Health Care and Beyond, Gynecologic Oncologists Prepare for the Challenges Ahead

Physicians are being “bombarded” with changes in health care and beyond, Richard R. Barakat, MD, FACS, noted in his Presidential Address at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer. These changes are being precipitated by steeply rising health-care costs amid...

supportive care

Childhood Cancers: Significant Medical Success but Many Psychosocial Needs Still Unmet

Treatment of childhood cancer is remarkably successful, but still, 2,000 children die of it each year, and for some forms of the disease, no progress has been made at all, said Otis Brawley, MD, Chief Medical Officer, American Cancer Society (ACS). “At least half of all pediatric cancer survivors...

Maintenance of Certification Activities: Earn Points at the ASCO Annual Meeting

The 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting will feature three activities to help attendees earn American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points while onsite. Annual Meeting Practice-Centered Session MOC Self-Assessment Activity This activity is designed for attendees who want ...

issues in oncology
breast cancer

Informing Decision-Making About Mammography Screening

Overdiagnosis associated with breast cancer screening has been the subject of much attention in recent years. The notion that cancer screening—largely believed to be beneficial—could actually be harmful is simultaneously fascinating and difficult to believe. With the publication of multiple studies ...

breast cancer
issues in oncology

Impact of Informed Decision-Making on Breast Cancer Screening

In a study reported in Lancet, Jolyn Hersch, MApplSc, of the University of Sydney, and colleagues found that use of a decision aid containing information on overdetection in breast cancer screening was associated with an increased rate of informed choice regarding screening, a reduced rate of...

lymphoma

Brentuximab Vedotin After Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation in High-Risk Hodgkin Lymphoma: Implications of the AETHERA Trial

Hodgkin lymphoma is generally thought to be a malignancy with a favorable prognosis. Overall, approximately 80% of patients will have durable, long-term remissions with initial chemotherapy. Some patients, however, demonstrate evidence of disease progression, and these patients usually receive...

lymphoma

Improved Progression-Free Survival With Brentuximab Vedotin After Transplantation in Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients

In the phase III AETHERA trial reported in The Lancet, Craig H. Moskowitz, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and colleagues found that brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) consolidation therapy after autologous stem cell transplantation prolonged progression-free survival by 18 months vs...

gynecologic cancers

Combining Antiangiogenic and Vascular-Disrupting Agents Improves Progression-Free Survival in Persistent Ovarian Cancer

“Bevacizumab [Avastin] prevents new blood vessels from growing, but what about the blood vessels that are already in the tumor?” Presenting that challenge to participants at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer in Chicago, Bradley J. Monk, MD, of the University of...

breast cancer
gynecologic cancers
kidney cancer
skin cancer
cost of care

NCCN Posters of Interest Included Studies in Kidney, Breast, and Endometrial Cancers, Melanoma, and Cost Issues

The quality and quantity of original research presented at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Annual Conference continue to grow since poster sessions debuted a few years ago. The ASCO Post offers summaries for just a few that caught our eye, out of more than 65 presented this year....

skin cancer

Combination Immunotherapy Better Than Monotherapy in Advanced Melanoma

As clinical research struggles to keep up with the pace of new immunotherapies, one of the burning questions is how best to combine the new drugs. A new study found that the combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) is superior to ipilimumab alone as front-line therapy for untreated ...

health-care policy

After Decades of Uncertainty, the Sustainable Growth Rate Formula Is Repealed by Congress

The U.S. Congress recently did something remarkable: both parties reached across the aisle and overwhelmingly passed H.R. 2, a bill that will permanently repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR), the problematic formula for Medicare reimbursement. It just needed the President’s signature, which it...

breast cancer

Experts Debate: Can We Cure Metastatic Breast Cancer?

Can metastatic breast cancer ever be cured? This issue was debated at the 32nd Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference by two experts in the field: George W. Sledge, Jr, MD, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California, and Clifford A. Hudis, MD, Chief of the...

issues in oncology
health-care policy

ASCO Releases 2015 Report on The State of Cancer Care in America

In March, ASCO published its second annual report, The State of Cancer Care in America: 2015.1 Its findings show a mixed landscape, on the one hand, spotlighting advances in therapy and improving survival rates, but on the other, describing a cancer care system under stress from increasing demand...

cost of care
health-care policy

Creating a Collective Path Forward to Optimize Value in Cancer Care

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services projects that U.S. health-care spending will reach $4.3 trillion and account for 19.3% of the nation’s gross domestic product by 2019.1 Although cancer care represents a small fraction of overall health-care costs, the cost of cancer care is rapidly...

Profile: Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA, FASCO, Making a Difference in Both Clinical Medicine and Research

At this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting, Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA, FASCO, will begin her term as the Society’s 51st President. It is fitting that the meeting will be held in Chicago, the city where the first seven visionaries met over lunch in 1964 to formulate a medical organization centered on cancer...

HOPA Announces New President and 2015 Membership Award Winners

The Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) has elected Scott Soefje, PharmD, MBA, BCOP, FCCP, to serve as President for the 2015–2016 term. His term began at the 11th HOPA Annual Conference, held March 25–28. Dr. Soefje has served as President-Elect since March 2014. Dr. Soefje is a...

p53 Takes Center Stage

BOOKMARKTitle: p53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer CodeAuthor: Sue ArmstrongPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingPublication date: November 20, 2014Price: $19.98; hardcover, 288 pages   Completed in April 2003, the Human Genome Project was one of the greatest feats of scientific exploration, an inward ...

Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD, Receives Service Award

Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD, Bank of America Endowed Medical Director of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute at Christiana Care Health System, received the 2015 Service Award from the Delaware Bio Science Association. Delaware Bio Science is a trade association focused solely on ...

survivorship

Cancer Survivors: Facts and Figures

The National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Survivorship recently issued the following data: As of January 2014, it is estimated that there are 14.5 million cancer survivors in the United States. This represents over 4% of the population, according to a report published recently.1  The...

issues in oncology

People Living With HIV in the United States Have a 50% Excess Cancer Risk

The nearly 900,000 people in the United States living with diagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have an excess cancer risk of 50%, according to a joint analysis of data by the National Cancer Institute and the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention,...

hepatobiliary cancer
supportive care

Therapy for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Patients With Cancer May Prevent Liver Disease Progression

“Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a neglected disease in patients with cancer,” Harrys A. Torres, MD, and colleagues from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston noted in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. To rectify that situation, the researchers...

lung cancer

EGFR L858R Mutation in Blood Sample May Serve as Surrogate for Biopsy in Determining EGFR-Mutation Status

Using a novel polymerase chain reaction assay “to efficiently assess” epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations in circulating free DNA (cfDNA) from blood samples of patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the Spanish Lung Cancer Group has “shown that the EGFR L858R...

Expect Questions About Physical Activity and Reduced Mortality Risks

A study finding that just doing some leisure time physical activity reduces overall and cancer-specific mortality by 20% and that more activity can provide even greater survival benefits concludes that health-care professionals should encourage inactive patients to perform more leisure time...

issues in oncology

Just Engaging in ‘Some’ Leisure Time Physical Activity Reduces Overall and Cancer-Specific Mortality

There’s good news for those who recognize the benefits of exercise but feel they have neither the time nor energy for frequent workouts: A recent study reported in JAMA Internal Medicine1 has found that just performing “some” leisure time physical activity, even below the recommended minimum level, ...

Article on Rare Cancer Generates Enthusiastic Response

The article “Shining a Spotlight on Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma,” written by Jane Gutkovich and published in the April 10, 2015, issue of The ASCO Post, generated an enthusiastic response from the patient and advocate community of individuals with this rare cancer. Here, we are pleased to...

Remembering Mark R. Green, MD, a Leader in Lung Cancer Research and Treatment

Few people have impacted cancer clinical research in the past quarter century as much as Mark Green. His expertise in lung cancer and clinical trial design led to the successful completion of seminal studies combining radiation and chemotherapy that forever changed the management of patients with...

Andrew Parsa, MD, PhD, Chair of Neurological Surgery at Northwestern, Dies at 48

Andrew Parsa, MD, PhD, the Michael J. Marchese Professor and Chair of the Departments of Neurological Surgery at Feinberg and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, passed away on April 13. He was 48 years old. “We are all shocked and saddened by this great loss. Dr. Parsa was a distinguished scholar, an...

Remembering Multiple Myeloma Patient Advocate Michael S. Katz, MBA

I first met Michael Katz, MBA, in 2004, 3 years after my brother, Dom, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, and we were at a crossroads in his care and needed advice. Although an experimental regimen of thalidomide (Thalomid) and dexamethasone had successfully put Dom in remission for a year (the...

issues in oncology

The Paradox of Positive Thinking

The ASCO Post is pleased to reproduce installments of the “Art of Oncology” as published previously in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO). These articles focus on the experience of suffering from cancer or of caring for people diagnosed with cancer, and they include narratives, topical essays,...

breast cancer

CLEOPATRA Overall Survival Analysis: Significant Benefit for Pertuzumab Plus Trastuzumab/Docetaxel in HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Sandra M. Swain, MD, of Washington Cancer Institute, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, and colleagues, the final prespecified overall survival analysis in the phase III CLEOPATRA study showed a significant 15.7-month increase in median overall ...

Learning to Communicate Science More Effectively

Alan Alda’s passion and appreciation for science extend nearly as far back to his early life as his love of acting. The son of actor Robert Alda, Mr. Alda began his acting career at the age of 16. Although he has appeared in such widely acclaimed films as The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Crimes and...

solid tumors

Living With a Rare Cancer—My Dr. Seuss World

No one ever expects to hear the words “you have cancer,” but over the course of the day, over 5,000 people in the United States are given that news.1 I first heard those words in the summer of 2007 and have been living with cancer ever since. At the time of my diagnosis, I knew this would forever...

Courage Under Fire

The following essay by Kishore K. Dass, MD, is adapted from The Big Casino: America’s Best Cancer Doctors Share Their Most Powerful Stories, which was coedited by Stan Winokur, MD, and Vincent Coppola and published in May 2014. The book is available on Amazon.com and thebigcasino.org. Born in...

A Less Is More View of Medicine

BOOKMARKTitle: Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical CareAuthor: H. Gilbert Welch, MDPublisher: Beacon PressPublication date: March 3, 2015Price: $24.95; hardcover, 241 pages He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines. —Benjamin Franklin...

issues in oncology

Building a Better Federal Oncology Workforce

The process of delivering novel treatments for patients with cancer involves a multifaceted and long-term interaction between three distinct entities: clinical researchers, who conduct the trials which test treatments; drug developers, including the pharmaceutical industry, which takes cancer drugs ...

issues in oncology

8 Steps to Help Children Cope With Cancer and Its Treatment

Here are several steps for helping pediatric and adolescent patients to cope with cancer and its treatment. Give young patients control whenever possible, suggests Shawna Grissom, MS, CCLS, CEIM, Director of the Child Life Program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and offer them realistic...

issues in oncology

Taking the Trauma Out of Cancer Care for Children and Adolescents

Getting a cancer diagnosis and going through treatment are difficult for patients of any age, but the experience can be especially traumatizing for the nearly 16,000 infants, children, and adolescents diagnosed each year with cancer,1 especially during the early days of treatment. Young cancer...

health-care policy

ASCO, ACCC Respond to Repeal of Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Formula

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) responded to the approval of H.R.2, a Medicare-reform bill to end the program’s sustainable growth rate  (SGR) formula. ASCO’s Statement ASCO President Peter Paul Yu, MD, FACP, FASCO, praised the ...

issues in oncology

In Search of Meaning: A Personal Journey

A famous Talmudic question asks: “What is truer than the truth?” The answer: “The story.” This is the story of my personal journey in search of meaning and the development of an approach to care for patients with advanced cancer, which I came to call “meaning-centered psychotherapy.” In terms of...

colorectal cancer

Ramucirumab With FOLFIRI in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

In the Clinic provides overviews of novel oncology agents, addressing indications, mechanisms, administration recommendations, safety profiles, and other essential information needed for the appropriate clinical use of these drugs. On April 24, the monoclonal antibody ramucirumab ­(Cyramza) was...

Mario R. Capecchi, PhD, Recognized With AACR Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Award

Mario R. Capecchi, PhD, was honored for his tremendous scientific contributions, which have had a profound impact on the understanding of cancer, with the 12th annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research at the AACR Annual Meeting 2015....

skin cancer

Pembrolizumab vs Ipilimumab: Good vs Better

The treatment landscape for metastatic melanoma has recently undergone a remarkable transformation. Prior to 2011, clinicians and patients were presented with difficult decisions between therapies without proven survival benefit. Now, similarly difficult but much more hopeful choices are posed...

skin cancer

Anti–PD-1 Antibody Pembrolizumab Improves Progression-Free and Overall Survival vs Ipilimumab in Advanced Melanoma

In the phase III KEYNOTE-006 trial reported in The New England Journal of Medicine,1 Caroline Robert, MD, PhD, Head of the Dermatology Unit at the Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, and colleagues found that the anti–programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) antibody pembrolizumab (Keytruda) increased...

issues in oncology
geriatric oncology

Guidelines for the Treatment of Older Cancer Patients: Task Forces of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology

Geriatrics for the Oncologist is guest edited by Stuart Lichtman, MD, FACP, FASCO, and developed in collaboration with the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG). Visit SIOG.org for more on geriatric oncology. The Task Forces of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) are ...

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