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lymphoma
survivorship

Celebrating 2 Decades as a Cancer Survivor 

This past June, I celebrated 20 years of being a cancer survivor by throwing myself a party. It was an interesting experience because I learned that many of the 100 guests I invited were also cancer survivors or were family members of cancer survivors, and so we celebrated their lives as well. Our...

issues in oncology

The Direction of Immunotherapy Over the Next Decade 

The use of immunotherapy to target malignant cells in a variety of cancers—especially the PD-1 inhibitors lambrolizumab and nivolumab in the treatment of metastatic melanoma and the anti–PD-L1 agent MPDL3280A in the treatment of melanoma and lung, kidney, colorectal, and gastric cancers—made...

Final Publication of IOM Report on Learning Health Systems Available 

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has issued the final publication of its report, Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. ASCO continues to support the IOM report’s core recommendations for establishing a “learning health system” in the United States and...

Conquering Cancer by Encouraging Diversity in the Field of Oncology 

As the Conquer Cancer Foundation Grants and Awards Program has grown over the last 30 years, so has its purpose. Not only does the Grants and Awards Program support young researchers, foster mentoring relationships, and improve the quality of cancer care around the world, it also works to increase...

Communicating the Promise Science Offers to Society 

ASCO President Clifford Hudis, MD, FACP, will be serving during a particularly notable year: 2014, the Society’s 50th anniversary. This occasion brings with it much to reflect on, from the advances in the field of oncology to the growth of ASCO’s influence, but Dr. Hudis takes a moment to simply...

Order Updated ASCO Answers Fact Sheets for Your Office or Waiting Room

ASCO Answers fact sheets give a one-page introduction to more than 40 types of adult and childhood cancers, as well as types of treatments and side effects. Each fact sheet provides an overview of the topic, a list of helpful terms, and a list of questions to ask the doctor. Download the fact...

health-care policy
legislation

Sustainable Growth Rate Bill Advances in the House 

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee has unanimously approved the Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013, which replaces Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula. The law would provide 5 years of stable Medicare payments beginning in 2014, with reimbursement rates...

ASCO Congratulates QOPI-Certified Practices

QCP™: Recognizing Excellence The QOPI® Certification Program (QCP™) recognizes medical oncology and hematology/oncology practices that are committed to delivering the highest quality of cancer care. QCP evaluates an individual practice’s performance in areas that affect patient care and safety. The ...

Robert S. Miller, MD, FACP, Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cancer.Net

Robert S. Miller, MD, FACP, a medical oncologist and recognized authority in breast cancer, survivorship care, and consumer health informatics, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of ASCO’s patient information website, Cancer.Net (www.cancer.net). He assumed this role at the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting ...

lymphoma

Potential Prognostic Significance Shown for Interaction of Follicular Lymphoma Cells with Immune Microenvironment 

It has been shown that CD4 and CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in follicular lymphoma have impaired function and suppressed recruitment of critical signaling proteins to the immunologic synapse, and a number of studies have indicated the prognostic importance of the immune microenvironment in...

cns cancers

Sitimagene Ceradenovec/IV Ganciclovir in Glioblastoma: Legitimizing the Gene Therapy Approach for Brain Tumors 

The ASPECT study,1 a randomized, open-label, phase III trial examining adenovirus-mediated gene therapy with sitimagene ceradenovec followed by IV ganciclovir for patients with operable high-grade glioma, is an important achievement for both neuro-oncology and gene therapy. As vector engineering...

cns cancers

Postresection Adenovirus-Mediated Gene Therapy Improves Time to Death/Reintervention but Not Survival in Adult Glioblastoma 

In an open-label phase III trial (ASPECT) reported in Lancet Oncology, Manfred Westphal, MD, of University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, and colleagues assessed the effects of locally applied adenovirus-mediated gene therapy with sitimagene ceradenovec followed by IV ganciclovir after surgical...

lung cancer

Lung Cancer Alliance Launches National Campaign to Increase Public Awareness of Lung CT Screening

Following the recent recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that individuals most at risk for lung cancer be screened, Lung Cancer Alliance has launched a national multimedia public education campaign urging individuals to assess their risk for lung cancer. The “Moments” ...

issues in oncology

Lidia Schapira, MD: Bridging Communication Gaps Between Oncologists and Patients 

Communicating the intricacies of oncology care to vulnerable patients with cancer and their caregivers requires a firm grasp of the nuances of language. One of the oncology community’s true champions in the art of breaking down communication barriers is Lidia Schapira, MD, a medical oncologist at...

breast cancer

The BEATRICE Study: Where Does Targeting Breast Cancer Vasculature Stand in 2013? 

Antiangiogenic strategies using the anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) monoclonal antibody bevacizumab (Avastin) gained traction in breast cancer with the publication of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 2100 trial in 2007. That study demonstrated a progression-free survival ...

breast cancer

No Invasive Disease–Free Survival Benefit for Bevacizumab Added to Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer 

In a study (BEATRICE trial) reported in Lancet Oncology, David Cameron, MD, Professor of Oncology and Director of Cancer Services, NHS Lothian at the University of Edinburgh, and colleagues evaluated the strategy of adding the antiangiogenic agent bevacizumab (Avastin) to adjuvant chemotherapy in...

gastrointestinal cancer

Prognostic Significance of MTOR Pathway Component Expression in Neuroendocrine Tumors 

The MTOR serine/threonine kinase pathway is implicated in regulation of neuroendocrine tumor growth. In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Qian and colleagues investigated the potential prognostic significance of MTOR pathway component expression in patients with neuroendocrine...

cns cancers

Resistance to Anti-VEGF Drugs in Glioblastoma Is Linked to Mesenchymal Transition 

Antiangiogenic therapy reduces tumor vascular permeability and delays tumor progression but may ultimately promote an aggressive treatment-resistant phenotype. In a study reported in Clinical Cancer Research, Piao and colleagues attempted to identify factors responsible for glioblastoma resistance...

skin cancer

Cytokine-Induced Killer Cells Effective Against Autologous Metastatic Melanoma Including Cells With Stemness Features 

In a study reported in Clinical Cancer Research, Gammaitoni and colleagues investigated the tumor-killing activity of cytokine-induced killer cells against autologous metastatic melanoma and putative cancer stem cells. The investigators developed a preclinical autologous model using same...

gynecologic cancers

September Is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month  

During September, we observe National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month to recognize those who have died and recommit ourselves to helping the women who are fighting for their health. Every year, more than 20,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which is the fifth leading...

gynecologic cancers

Timely Findings From the Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis Consortium 

In the Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis Consortium Study recently published by Sieh et al,1  tissue microarrays from 2,933 cases of epithelial ovarian carcinoma demonstrated that progesterone receptor (PR) expression and estrogen receptor (ER) expression were associated with significantly improved...

gynecologic cancers

Progesterone and Estrogen Receptor Expression Are Prognostic Markers for Endometrioid and High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer 

Few markers of ovarian cancer prognosis have been established, perhaps because potential subtype associations are missed in studies including patients with all histopathologic subtypes. In a study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Weiva Sieh, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Research and...

breast cancer

Breast Cancer Researchers Awarded Komen for the Cure Grants

Susan G. Komen for the Cure recently announced it has awarded grant funding of more than $1.4 million to five researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and a one-of-a-kind tissue bank. The grants will be part of the $42 million Komen will award in 2013 for cancer research. Grants Focus...

head and neck cancer

Couple Pledges $10 Million Gift to MD Anderson’s Head and Neck Cancer Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, recently announced that Charles and Daneen Stiefel, of Raleigh, North Carolina, have pledged $10 million to the Head and Neck Cancer Center at MD Anderson. In honor of their generosity, the institution will name the Charles and...

gynecologic cancers

Pretreatment Lymph Node Dissection May Improve Survival in Advanced Cervical Cancer, But for Too Few? 

Women with cervical cancer metastasized to para-aortic lymph nodes have historically had a poor prognosis, with 3-year overall survival rates of 25% to 40%.1-3 This has been attributed to the presence of occult systemic disease at the time of presentation and a high rate of distant recurrences...

gynecologic cancers

What Para-Aortic Nodal Involvement Predicts About Survival in PET-CT–Negative Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer 

In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sebastien Gouy, MD, of Institut Gustave Roussy and colleagues evaluated survival outcomes in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer and negative positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET-CT) imaging results who underwent...

breast cancer

Tamoxifen in Women With BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations: Another Option? 

In analyses of pooled information from cohorts of women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations who have had a prior breast cancer diagnosis, Phillips and colleagues examined the association between tamoxifen use compared to nonuse on contralateral breast cancer risk.1 Tamoxifen use was associated with...

breast cancer

Cohort Analysis: Adjuvant Tamoxifen Reduces Risk of Contralateral Breast Cancer in BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers 

In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Kelly-Anne Phillips, MBBS, MD, of the University of Melbourne, and colleagues analyzed the association of adjuvant tamoxifen use and risk of contralateral breast cancer among women carrying BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in the International BRCA1 ...

thyroid cancer

Sorafenib Granted Priority Review for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 

Bayer HealthCare and Onyx Pharmaceuticals recently announced that the FDA has granted priority review designation to the supplemental new drug application of sorafenib (Nexavar) tablets for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer....

lymphoma

FDA Approves Mechlorethamine Gel for Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma

Ceptaris Therapeutics, Inc, recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for the orphan drug mechlorethamine gel (Valchlor) for the topical treatment of stage IA and IB mycosis fungoides-type cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) in patients who have ...

leukemia

Treatment of Relapse of Acute Leukemia Post-Transplant: Still Hope for Patients With Chemosensitive Disease 

Disease recurrence is a devastating event after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Median time to relapse is approximately 4 months and the majority of relapses occur within 2 years after transplant. The prognosis is usually poor....

leukemia

No Benefit/Detriment of Donor Change in Second Stem Cell Transplant for Leukemia Relapse 

Minimal data are available on outcomes of second allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from unrelated donors after a first transplant in patients with hematologic relapse of acute leukemia. In a study reported in Journal of Clinical Oncology, Maximilian Christopeit, MD, of University...

pain management

Undertreatment of Cancer Pain Remains a Persistent Problem in Oncology 

Data indicate that for more than 2 decades, cancer pain has been undertreated in the United States. The paradox of this stubborn clinical problem is that oncology has the ability to manage the great majority of cancer pain. To clarify this issue, The ASCO Post recently spoke with nationally...

skin cancer

What Is the Optimal Treatment of Advanced Melanoma?  

With exciting targeted and immunotherapeutic agents now part of the arsenal for metastatic melanoma, which drug should move to the head of the line? Mario Sznol, MD, Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, has been involved in key clinical trials of the...

thyroid cancer

High-Tech Imaging Contributes to Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment of Low-Risk Thyroid Cancers  

A study from the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery finds that advances in imaging technologies, including ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, are fueling an epidemic in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancers that are unlikely to ever...

skin cancer

Three 'Game-Changers' in the Treatment of Melanoma 

There have been three “game-changers” in the treatment of melanoma, Mark R. Albertini, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, contended at the Best of ASCO Chicago meeting. The first, he explained, was the recognition of different genetic driver...

SIDEBAR: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 

Reviewing a study on off-label use of chemotherapy, Monika K. Krzyzanowska, MD, MPH, of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre University of Toronto, reflected on what she called the good, the bad, and the ugly of off-label drug use. “Certainly there are some good aspects about off-label therapy,” she...

issues in oncology

Prescribing of Off-Label Chemotherapy Is Common, and Most Off-Label Drug Use Meets NCCN Compendium Criteria  

Off-label prescribing of drugs remains common in oncology, but about two-thirds of off-label prescribing is consistent with the National Comprehensive Care Network (NCCN) compendium, according to a study1 reviewed at the Best of ASCO® ’13 meeting in Chicago by Monika K. Krzyzanowska, MD, MPH,...

Expert Point of View: Heather A. Wakelee, MD

Describing the PROSE study findings at the Best of ASCO meeting, Heather A. Wakelee, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, concluded, “The results of PROSE indicate that the 30% to 35% of patients classified as VeriStrat ‘poor’ have better survival with...

lung cancer

VeriStrat Assay Helps Select NSCLC Patients for Second-Line Therapy 

VeriStrat, a serum-based protein assay, can help select which patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) not known to have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations might benefit from an ­EGFR-targeted agent, according to a study presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting by Vanesa Gregorc, ...

issues in oncology

A Great Privilege to Die Beneath an Open Sky 

It was 1:00 AM, and my beeping pager awakened me. When you’re a surgical oncologist, you know that a page from your chief resident at this hour of the morning usually means someone may need to go to the operating room. And, yes, it was the chief resident about a patient in crisis. Except in this...

issues in oncology

Paging Dr. Google: Practicing Oncology in the Era of Social Media and Telemedicine  

Over the past few decades, economic and political factors have reshaped oncology, especially in the community setting. To defray risk, we’ve seen a trend toward oncology practices partnering with hospitals or aggregating into larger networks. Moreover, the Internet and the advent of telemedicine...

breast cancer

Platinum Agents in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Encouraging New Data 

For the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer, there is renewed interest in investigating the role of platinum chemotherapy, according to Melinda L. Telli, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, Palo Alto. At the Best of ASCO meeting in Los Angeles, Dr. Telli reviewed the...

breast cancer

Platinum-Based Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

The last issue of The ASCO Post reports encouraging results with platinum-based treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (September 15, 2013). We predicted these findings 4 years ago in a presentation at the 2009 Breast Symposium.1 We compared the activity of a series of agents (platinum, taxane, ...

To Die Beneath an Open Sky

I read the essay by Chandrakanth Are, MBBS, FRCS, FACS, published recently in The ASCO Post and found it both thoughtful and compelling (“A Great Privilege to Die Beneath an Open Sky,” The ASCO Post, September 15, 2013, page 1). Dr. Are made one statement with which I take exception, however, and...

Jane Weeks, MD, MSc, National Leader in Outcomes Research, Dies at 61 

On September 10, Jane Carrie Weeks, MD, MSc, a prominent researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Center, died of cancer in her Boston home. She was 61. At the time of her death, Dr. Weeks was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School...

'Doing Nothing' Is Not an Option

I applaud The ASCO Post for continuing to raise awareness about futile medical care at the close of life with the recent publication of a commentary by Dr. Chandrakanth Are (“A Great Privilege to Die Beneath an Open Sky,” The ASCO Post, September 15, 2013, page 1). I would suggest, however, that we ...

pancreatic cancer

High-Quality Diet May Reduce Risk 

Consuming a high-quality diet, consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, may reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, a dietary pattern analysis study found. “This finding contrasts with previous studies showing limited associations with specific foods or nutrients,” the authors...

prostate cancer

Shiftworkers Likely to Have Increased Risk  

A strong positive association with shiftwork and elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level was found in an analysis of three National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) studies. “Our data support the notion that sleep or circadian disruption is associated with elevated PSA,...

skin cancer

Sunscreen Use Infrequently Discussed With Patients  

Although the incidence of skin cancer in increasing, “the rate at which physicians are mentioning sunscreen at patient visits is quite low, even for patients with a history of skin cancer,” according to an analysis of data from more than 18.30 billion patient visits. “Sun-protection counseling...

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