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Showing 351 - 400Outcomes Support CAR T-Cell Therapy Use in Elderly Patients With B-Cell Lymphomas
Patients in their 80s or older with B-cell lymphomas are able to receive chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy safely, results of a multicenter retrospective study published in Bone Marrow Transplantation showed. These patients are usually not eligible for clinical trials of CAR T-cell...
Studies Explore Cardiac Risks and Clinical Characteristics Associated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor–Related Myocarditis
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have significantly impacted treatment options for a wide range of cancers given their efficacy, especially among cancer types that are considered immunologically “hot.” With this broad benefit across many tumor types, researchers continue to look for ways to...
Risk of Liver Cancer With Oral Contraceptive Use
In a UK population-based study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Watling et al examined the relationship between ever use vs never use of oral contraceptives and the risk of liver cancer. Some findings suggested the possibility of slightly increased risk with longer-term use. As noted by the...
Can Use of Aprepitant During Chemotherapy Improve Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Outcomes?
Aprepitant, a commonly used antiemetic, led to improvements in patient outcomes when given during chemotherapy treatment for patients with non-luminal early breast cancer. Patients showed better prognoses and survival advantages, particularly among those with triple-negative breast cancer. Study...
Teclistamab for High-Risk, Heavily Pretreated Multiple Myeloma: Real-World Data
Teclistamab-cqyv is the first bispecific T-cell engager antibody that targets both B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) proteins on myeloma cells and CD3 proteins on T cells. It was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2022 for treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple...
Outcomes With Perioperative Immunotherapy in Resectable NSCLC
In a retrospective cohort study reported in JAMA Network Open, Desai et al examined survival outcomes with the addition of immunotherapy to neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Study Details The study involved data from the Flatiron...
Literature Review Highlights Rising Incidence and Disparities in Many Early-Onset GI Cancers
Rates of early-onset gastrointestinal cancers, beyond just colorectal cancer, are rising among people younger than age 50, according to experts from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Researchers from Dana-Farber published a literature review in the British Journal of Surgery showing that cases of newly ...
Ruxolitinib for Steroid-Refractory or -Dependent Chronic Graft-vs-Host Disease
In the 3-year final analysis of the phase III REACH3 trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Zeiser et al compared the use of ruxolitinib vs best available therapy (BAT) in terms of failure-free survival and duration of response in patients with steroid-refractory or -dependent chronic...
Corticosteroids May Limit Efficacy of Immunotherapy in Patients With NSCLC
Corticosteroids, which are commonly prescribed to alleviate cancer-related symptoms in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with immunotherapy, may be the reason certain immunotherapies fail in treating the disease, according to new research published by Polyakov et al in Cancer ...
Survival Disparities Rise in Patients With Advanced Cancer Depending on Whether They Have Insurance to Cover Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
A study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society examining the association between the introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and changes in survival disparities by health insurance coverage among patients with newly diagnosed stage IV melanoma, non–small cell lung cancer...
Can Hormone Therapy Affect Breast Cancer Risk in Younger Women?
Investigators have found that two common types of hormone therapy may alter breast cancer risk in women before age 55. Women treated with unopposed estrogen hormone therapy (E-HT) were less likely to develop the disease than those who did not use this type of hormone therapy. Additionally, women...
AI-Enhanced PACT as a Noninvasive Breast Imaging Alternative
Panoramic photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) with machine learning assistance could be a safe, noninvasive, and sensitive alternative to mammography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for breast cancer screening, according to study results that were published in Nature...
Erika Hamilton, MD, on Oral SERDs in Breast Cancer: State of the Science
Erika Hamilton, MD, Director, Breast Cancer Research at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, provides a look at “where we stand in 2025” in the field of oral selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDs) for patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. She discusses the first...
Genitourinary Oncology Highlights: Treatment Advances in Renal Cell, Bladder, Urothelial, and Prostate Cancers
The 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting has officially concluded. Our sincere thanks to the global oncology community and ASCO for creating such a remarkable forum advancing cancer care. Here we highlight the most impactful updates in genitourinary tumors from this year’s meeting. Kidney Cancer: Long-Term...
Partial-Breast Radiotherapy After Breast-Conserving Surgery: 10-Year Outcomes
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Kirby et al, 10-year follow-up of the phase III UK IMPORT LOW trial has shown that partial-breast and reduced-dose radiotherapy continue to be associated with similar ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR) outcomes compared with whole-breast radiotherapy...
Study Finds About One in Six Chemotherapy Drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa Fails Quality Tests
About one in six tested chemotherapies in sub-Saharan Africa were found to have serious quality defects, according to the results of a study published in The Lancet Global Health. Researchers assessed the appearance, packaging, and labeling of each cancer medication and measured the quantity of...
ASTRO Updates Guideline on Radiation Therapy for High-Grade Diffuse Glioma
A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) focuses on the use of radiation therapy for adults with World Health Organization (WHO) grade 4 diffuse gliomas, a category that includes some of the most common and most aggressive primary brain tumors. The...
Botulinum Toxin and Scopolamine for Radiation-Induced Salivary Gland Toxicity in Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Injection with botulinum toxin (BTX) type A (IncoA) plus transdermal scopolamine led to the reduction in radiation-induced salivary gland toxicity without compromising PSMA (prostate-specific membrane antigen) tumor uptake in patients with metastatic prostate cancer who were receiving...
Breast Cancer: New Study Finds Survivors May Face Lower Risk of Alzheimer Dementia
Breast cancer survivors may have a slightly lower risk of developing Alzheimer dementia compared with cancer-free individuals, according to the results of a study published by Jeong et al in JAMA Network Open. “The risk of Alzheimer dementia is a crucial aspect of overall well-being among breast...
Case 3: Radioligands in Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumor
This is Part 3 of Evolving Treatment Paradigms for Neuroendocrine Tumors, a three-part video roundtable series. Scroll down to watch the other videos from this roundtable. In this video, Drs. Daniel Halperin, Jess Maxwell, and Virginia Corbett discuss the use of radioligand therapy for advanced...
New Data Show Nearly 50% of All Cancer Deaths Worldwide Are Attributable to Modifiable Risk Factors
New reporting in The Cancer Atlas, Fourth Edition, showed that an estimated 50% of all cancer deaths worldwide are attributed to modifiable risk factors, including tobacco and alcohol use, infections, excess body weight, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, ultraviolet radiation, environmental...
Chinese Herbal Medicine for Improving Adjuvant Chemotherapy Completion in Patients With Colon Cancer
Guest Editor’s Note: Although guidelines recommend adjuvant combination chemotherapy for patients with stage II and III colon cancer who are at high risk of disease recurrence, fewer than 50% complete treatment because of fear of adverse effects or symptom burden. The herbal formula Jianpi Bushen ...
HLA-Matching Considerations for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Hematologic Malignancies
Besides relapse of the malignant disease, graft-vs-host disease is still one of the greatest concerns, in terms of adverse effects, following a hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in a patient with a hematologic malignancy. To mitigate these concerns, investigators are continually analyzing ...
National Comprehensive Cancer Network Launches NCCN Guidelines Navigator
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) has announced a new, interactive digital delivery format for the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®). The NCCN Guidelines® are the recognized standard for clinical decision-making and policy in cancer care and are the...
ASCO Guideline Update Calls for Omission of SLNB in Select Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer
ASCO has released a clinical practice guideline update on the role of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in early-stage breast cancer.1 The update includes recommendations based on findings from trials released after the published guideline in 2017, including data from nine randomized trials...
In Second-Line Setting, T-DXd Improves Survival Outcomes in HER2-Positive Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer
In the phase III DESTINY-Gastric04 trial, use of the antibody-drug conjugate fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (T-DXd) was compared head to head with the monoclonal antibody ramucirumab and paclitaxel in patients with previously treated, HER2-positive metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction...
Updated Results Confirm Benefit of Combination Regimen in BRAFV600E–Mutated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Patients with previously untreated BRAF V600E–mutated metastatic colorectal cancer who receive the BRAF inhibitor encorafenib and the EGFR inhibitor cetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 (modified leucovorin, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin) vs the current standard of care (chemotherapy ± bevacizumab) may live...
FDA Approves Label Expansion for Agent Used in Patient Selection for Pre-Taxane Radioligand Therapy
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a label expansion of a kit for the preparation of gallium Ga-68 gozetotide for injection (Illuccix) to include patient selection for radioligand therapy in the pre-taxane setting. The update applies to the imaging agent’s third indication,...
Early ESR1 Mutation Detection and Therapy Switch in Advanced Hormone Receptor–Positive, HER2-Negative Breast Cancer
Early detection of an ESR1 mutation, leading to a switch of endocrine therapy, led to an almost doubling in progression-free survival in the SERENA-6 trial, the global registrational study in patients with metastatic breast cancer for the investigational oral selective estrogen receptor degrader...
Silence Is Complicity
On January 20, 2025, newly sworn-in President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,”1 effectively eliminating all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, preferences, and activities across the federal...
Adjuvant Use of Atezolizumab Plus Chemotherapy in DNA Mismatch Repair–Deficient Colon Cancer
For the adjuvant treatment of stage III colon cancer with DNA mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR) tumors, the addition of the checkpoint inhibitor atezolizumab to standard chemotherapy significantly improved disease-free survival in the phase III ATOMIC trial. The results position this approach as a...
Phase III Trial Results Suggest a New Standard of Care in Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
In the phase III DESTINY-Breast09 trial, first-line treatment with the antibody-drug conjugate fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (T-DXd) plus the monoclonal antibody pertuzumab significantly delayed disease progression by more than 1 year—nearly doubling the time of disease control—over standard...
Role of Mitochondrial Pathways in Melanoma Progression, Treatment Resistance
The most aggressive melanomas may hyperactivate two key processes in mitochondria, according to a novel study, and blocking these pathways with currently available drugs may eliminate melanoma cells, explained investigators. These findings were published by Kim et al in the journal Cancer....
New Model Predicts Risk of Progression in Early-Stage Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma
The first individualized risk prediction model for adults with early-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) has been developed and validated. According to a report published in NEJM Evidence, the Early-Stage cHL International Prognostic Index (E-HIPI) model estimates 2-year progression-free...
ASH 2025 Awardees: Hematologists to Be Honored With Highest Distinctions
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) announced that it will recognize 11 hematologists who have made notable contributions to the field with several honorific awards and prestigious lectures at the 2025 ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition in Orlando, Florida, from December 6–9, 2025. The...
How I Discuss the Current Political Chaos When Patients Ask Health-Related Questions About It
I’ve been a physician for several decades, seeing patients and functioning as a medical teacher; clinical, translational, and bench researcher; and administrator. Adapting to medical practice in three nations and several U.S. states has been quite challenging at different times, but I really think...
Experimental Approach to Graft-vs-Host Disease Prophylaxis Offers Alternative to Standard Regimen
Prevention of graft-vs-host disease was far superior with a cyclophosphamide/cyclosporin-based regimen than with standard prophylaxis in patients receiving a matched-sibling donor stem cell transplant in a large Australian randomized trial, investigators reported at the European Hematology...
Polatuzumab Vedotin–Based Regimen Improves Overall Survival in Refractory DLBCL
Combining the CD79b-directed antibody-drug conjugate polatuzumab vedotin-piiq with rituximab, gemcitabine, and oxaliplatin (R-GemOx) significantly improved survival outcomes in patients with transplant-ineligible, relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), over standard rituximab ...
Psilocybin May Benefit Patients With Cancer, Major Depressive Disorder
A single dose of psilocybin may provide sustained reductions in depression and anxiety among patients with cancer and major depressive disorder, according to a recent study published by Agrawal et al in Cancer. Patients with cancer often experience depression. Psilocybin is a naturally occurring...
Case 1: Initial Management of a Patient With High-Risk Myelofibrosis
This is Part 1 of Expert Perspectives on the Treatment of High-Risk Myelofibrosis, a three-part video roundtable series. Scroll down to watch the other videos from this roundtable. In this video, Drs. Abdulraheem Yacoub, Gabriela Hobbs, and Douglas Tremblay discuss the treatment of a 67-year-old ...
Revumenib in Triplet Regimen Under Study in Newly Diagnosed AML With NPM1/KMT2A Alterations
A new combination of azacitidine, venetoclax, and revumenib demonstrated high rates of complete response and clinical activity in older adults with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and an NPM1 mutation or KMT2A rearrangement. The regimen was also shown to be safe in updated results from ...
Early Results for CAR T-Cell Therapy in Relapsed or Refractory AL Amyloidosis
Initial early results were seen for the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in patients with relapsed or refractory amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis in the NEXICART-2 trial. This was the first U.S. trial of CAR T-cell therapy for patients with AL amyloidosis, demonstrating...
Ramucirumab Beyond Progression Plus Irinotecan in Ramucirumab-Refractory Advanced Gastric Cancer
In a Japanese phase III trial (RINDBeRG) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sakai et al assessed whether the addition of ramucirumab to irinotecan would improve overall survival in third- or later-line treatment of patients with advanced or recurrent gastric or gastroesophageal cancer...
Low-Value Cancer Screenings May Continue for Years Following Guideline Change to Limit Unnecessary Tests
Stopping the widespread use of unnecessary, potentially harmful cancer screenings may take up to 13 years and potentially longer following the implementation of new guidelines, according to a recent study published by LeLaurin et al in BMJ Quality & Safety. Background The U.S. Preventive...
Use of Bispecific Antibody in Older Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma
Although treatment with the bispecific antibody teclistamab was approved for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, based on the MajesTEC-1 study results, only 15% of patients in the phase I/II trial were aged 75 or older. To learn more about the safety and efficacy of this agent in ...
ASTRO Survey Data Illustrate Impact of Continued Medicare Cuts on Cancer Care
Recent national survey data from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) have shown that further cuts to Medicare reimbursement for radiation therapy would increase patient wait times for cancer treatment and force clinic downsizing. Nearly all (96%) of the 675 physicians responding to...
Expanded Treatment Options for Metastatic CRPC: ASCO Guideline Addresses Somatic Genetic Testing, Radiopharmaceuticals
The management of metastatic (CRPC) has rapidly accelerated in the past decade, giving oncologists a wider range of tools to work with and patients new opportunities for improving survival and maintaining quality of life. These significant advancements have prompted ASCO to release a guideline...
How the Elimination of Federal Gender-Related Grants and DEI Programs Is Impacting LGBTQ+ Health Research
Within hours of the start of his second administration, on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order proclaiming that the country would now recognize only two sexes, male and female, essentially rejecting transgender identity, and directing all federal agencies to use the...
Digital Histopathology and Automated Classification of Pediatric Sarcomas
With more than 50 different subtypes, pediatric soft-tissue sarcomas represent a broad category of disease. And given the rarity of these sarcomas, “it is difficult for pathologists to see a sufficient volume to gain expertise across all variants,” stated Adam Thiesen, BA, MD/PhD Candidate at UConn ...
Pathology Machine-Learning Models and Diagnosis of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers in Resource-Limited Settings
Artificial intelligence (AI) models, which were pretrained on vast data sets, outperformed a standard baseline model in identifying nonmelanoma skin cancers from digital images of tissue samples, based on a session presented during the 2025 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual...
