In an analysis from the IBIS-II prevention trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Jack Cuzick, PhD, and colleagues found that increasing the ratio of baseline estradiol level to sex hormone–binding globulin (SHBG) was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in high-risk postmenopausal...
The final survival analysis of the Dutch-Belgian phase III OVHIPEC-1 trial showed that the addition of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) to interval cytoreductive surgery was associated with maintained progression-free and overall survival benefits at 10 years in women with advanced ...
In a final overall survival analysis of the phase III IMvigor130 trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Enrique Grande, MD, and colleagues found no significant advantage in overall survival with atezolizumab plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone in the first-line treatment of patients with...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Talha Munir, MBBS, and colleagues, an analysis from the UK phase III FLAIR trial showed improved progression-free survival with measurable residual disease (MRD)-guided ibrutinib/venetoclax vs fludarabine/cyclophosphamide/rituximab (FCR) in...
As reported in The Lancet by Ana Oaknin, MD, and colleagues, the phase III BEATcc trial has shown that the addition of atezolizumab to bevacizumab and chemotherapy improved progression-free and overall survival in women with metastatic, persistent, or recurrent cervical cancer. Study Details The...
In a Danish population-based retrospective cohort study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Kjaer et al identified the cumulative incidence of second primary cancers among cancer survivors aged ≥ 40 years who were alive 1 year after diagnosis. Study Details The study involved data from 457,334...
In the final overall survival analysis from the phase III IMvigor130 trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Aristotelis Bamias, MD, and colleagues found no significant advantage in overall survival with atezolizumab monotherapy vs chemotherapy in untreated patients with locally advanced or...
On October 16, 2023, pembrolizumab was approved for use with platinum-containing chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment and as single-agent adjuvant treatment in patients with resectable (tumors ≥ 4 cm or node-positive) non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).1 Supporting Efficacy Data Approval was based ...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Michael S. Hofman, MBBS, and colleagues, overall survival results from the Australian phase II TheraP trial showed no difference with lutetium-177–labeled PSMA-617 (LuPSMA) vs cabazitaxel in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and...
In a subgroup analysis from the phase III FLAURA2 trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Pasi A. Jänne, MD, PhD, and colleagues found the combination of osimertinib and chemotherapy improved central nervous system (CNS) efficacy vs osimertinib alone in the first-line treatment of...
As reported in The Lancet by Uwe Platzbecker, MD, and colleagues, the phase III IMerge trial has shown improved red blood cell transfusion independence with imetelstat, a competitive telomerase inhibitor, vs placebo in RBC transfusion-dependent patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes who ...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Dixon et al found that adult survivors of childhood cancers with prediabetes were at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular events and chronic kidney disease. The study involved data from 3,529 ≥ 5-year survivors of childhood cancer...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, and colleagues, a 5-year analysis of the IDEA trial showed a very low rate of recurrence with the omission of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery in patients at low clinical and genomic risk for disease ...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Tan et al, the phase III CANOPY-1 trial has shown no survival benefits with the addition of canakinumab to first-line pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced/metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without EGFR or ALK...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Kathleen N. Moore, MD, and colleagues, the phase III MIRASOL trial has shown improved progression-free and overall survival with mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx vs chemotherapy in previously treated patients with folate receptor–alpha...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Innocenti et al, analysis of DNA mutational profiling in the phase III CALGB (Alliance)/SWOG 80405 trial of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer treated with bevacizumab or cetuximab with chemotherapy showed differences in outcome associated...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Han et al found that persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) after chemoradiation was associated with poorer outcomes in patients with cervical cancer. Patients at high risk of poorer outcomes could also be...
On October 11, 2023, the BRAF inhibitor encorafenib (Braftovi) with the MEK inhibitor binimetinib (Mektovi) was approved for patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a BRAF V600E mutation, as detected by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved test.1,2 The FDA...
A large cohort study of peripheral blood T-cell receptor (TCR) clonotype diversity in patients with breast cancer diagnosed with either ductal carcinoma in situ or de novo stage IV disease has found that the diversity of T cells is associated with age and intratumor immune status and might be...
In an analysis from the European Mantle Cell Lymphoma Elderly Trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Hoster et al found that outcomes with rituximab maintenance were better in patients aged ≥ 60 years with mantle cell lymphoma who had measurable residual disease (MRD)-negative vs...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Yohann Loriot, MD, PhD, and colleagues, cohort 1 of the phase III THOR trial has shown improved overall survival with erdafitinib vs chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic urothelial carcinoma with...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Bradley J. Monk, MD, and colleagues, the phase III CALLA trial showed no significant improvement in progression-free survival with the addition of durvalumab to chemoradiotherapy in previously untreated patients with locally advanced cervical cancer. Study...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Josep M. Llovet, MD, and colleagues, the phase III LEAP-002 trial has shown that the addition of pembrolizumab to lenvatinib in the first-line treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma did not reach statistical superiority thresholds for overall or...
In the phase II PNOC001 trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Daphne A. Haas-Kogan, MD, MBA, and colleagues found that everolimus showed activity in pediatric patients with recurrent or progressive low-grade glioma. PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway activation was not correlated with clinical...
In a combined analysis of two Chinese phase II trials (RC48-C005 and RC48-C009) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sheng et al found that the antibody-drug conjugate disitamab vedotin—an anti-HER2 antibody conjugated with monomethyl auristatin—produced promising results in patients with...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Charles M. Rudin, MD, PhD, and colleagues, the phase III SKYSCRAPER-02 trial showed no progression-free or overall survival benefit with the addition of the T-cell immunoglobulin and ITM domain (TIGIT) inhibitor tiragolumab to atezolizumab and...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology, Im et al have developed risk-prediction models for primary ovarian insufficiency in long-term survivors of childhood cancer. Study Details In the study, models to predict age-specific risk of primary ovarian insufficiency were evaluated among 5-year survivors...
In a nationwide Danish cohort study reported in JAMA Oncology, Nors et al found the 5-year risk of recurrence after surgery for stage I to III colorectal cancer decreased over time and the time to recurrence was shorter with a more advanced disease stage. Study Details The study used the Danish...
In the phase II SPRINT trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Ohri et al found that a chemotherapy-sparing regimen of pembrolizumab with risk-adapted radiotherapy was associated with good outcomes in patients with stage III or unresectable stage II non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)...
In a European study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Heymer et al found that the risk of subsequent colorectal cancer was elevated among childhood cancer survivors who had undergone abdominopelvic radiotherapy. Study Details The study used data from the PanCareSurFup Study—a...
In a German phase II trial (INITIAL-1) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Matthias Stelljes, MD, and colleagues found that inotuzumab ozogamicin–based induction therapy followed by age-adapted chemotherapy was associated with promising outcomes in newly diagnosed patients older than age...
In an Indian phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Ostwal et al found that trastuzumab plus gemcitabine/cisplatin was active in treatment-naive patients with advanced HER2-positive biliary tract adenocarcinoma. Study Details In the investigator-initiated multicenter trial, 90 ...
In a Swedish study reported in JAMA Oncology, Mao et al found that women with a false-positive mammography result were more likely to be subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer compared to women with no false-positive result. Study Details The study involved data from 45,213 women who received a...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Lorenzen et al, the phase II portion of the German-Swiss phase II/III DANTE/IKF-s633 trial showed promising results with the addition of atezolizumab to perioperative chemotherapy in patients with resectable esophagogastric cancer. Study Details In ...
In a UK single-institution study (EPI-SURE) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Evans et al found that the novel WID-qEC DNA methylation test outperformed ultrasonography in detecting uterine cancer in women with abnormal uterine bleeding. Study Details The prospective observational study invited...
In an analysis of the phase III PROfound trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Joaquin Mateo, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that olaparib improved outcomes vs abiraterone or enzalutamide among the subgroup of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had...
On September 26, 2023, bosutinib (Bosulif) was approved for pediatric patients aged 1 year and older with chronic-phase Philadelphia chromosome–positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) that is newly diagnosed or resistant or intolerant to prior therapy.1 New capsule dosage form strengths of 50 mg...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Eric Bouffet, MD, of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and colleagues, a phase II trial has shown a significant improvement in objective response rate and other efficacy outcomes with first-line dabrafenib plus trametinib vs standard...
In a phase I study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Scott T. Tagawa, MD, MS, FASCO, FACP, and colleagues determined the recommended phase II dose and described preliminary activity of actinium-225–J591—an anti–prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) monoclonal antibody (J591)...
In a Dutch retrospective cohort study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Schuurman et al identified follow-up strategies based on cytology and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing after fertility-sparing surgery for early-stage cervical cancer. Study Details The nationwide population-based study used...
As reported in The Lancet by Chu et al, a phase III trial conducted in Canada, Italy, and France showed that the addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy improved survival in previously untreated patients with advanced pleural mesothelioma. Study Details In the multicenter open-label trial, 440...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Fred Saad, MD, of the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, and colleagues, the final prespecified overall survival analysis of the phase III PROpel trial has shown no significant benefit with the addition of first-line olaparib to abiraterone in...
As reported in The Lancet by the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group (EBCTCG), an individual patient meta-analysis has shown that more recent—but not older—trials of regional lymph node radiotherapy vs no radiotherapy in patients with early breast cancer showed benefits of...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by François-Clément Bidard, MD, PhD, and colleagues, the French phase III STIC CTC trial showed a nonsignificant overall survival benefit with a circulating tumor cell (CTC) count–driven approach to therapy vs physician’s choice in the first-line...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Zwanenburg et al, 5-year findings from the Dutch COLOPEC trial indicated that the addition of adjuvant hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) to systemic chemotherapy did not improve overall survival vs chemotherapy alone in patients...
In a UK phase II trial (PRISM) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vasudev and colleagues found that ipilimumab given every 12 weeks vs every 3 weeks in combination with nivolumab resulted in a significantly reduced rate of treatment-related grade ≥ 3 adverse events in treatment-naive...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Niemann et al, the 4-year follow-up of the phase III GLOW trial has shown a continued progression-free survival benefit with fixed-duration ibrutinib/venetoclax vs chlorambucil/obinutuzumab in the first-line treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in patients ...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Nogueira et al found that among U.S. Black and White patients with early-onset colorectal cancer, Black patients were more likely to receive poorer and less timely care. As stated by the investigators: “Young individuals racialized as Black...
In a phase III trial (OVAL Study/GOG 3018) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Arend et al found that the addition of ofranergene obadenovec to paclitaxel did not improve survival outcomes in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. Ofranergene obadenovec is a gene-based targeted...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology, Zeng et al developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based pathology method that distinguished between better and poorer response to treatment with atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). As stated by the investigators:...