In a Russian single-institution prospective cohort study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sheikh et al found that quitting smoking after a diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) was associated with improved disease progression and survival outcomes among patients. Study Details The...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Christopher J. Sweeney, MBBS, and colleagues, the primary overall survival analysis of the phase III ENZAMET trial showed a significant benefit with enzalutamide plus testosterone suppression vs standard nonsteroidal antiandrogen treatment plus testosterone...
In a Chinese single-center phase II trial (EC-CRT-001) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Zhu et al found that the addition of the PD-1 inhibitor toripalimab to definitive chemoradiotherapy resulted in “encouraging activity and acceptable toxicity” in patients with locally advanced esophageal...
In a phase II trial (ACOSOG Z11102/Alliance) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Judy C. Boughey, MD, and colleagues found that breast-conserving therapy was associated with a low rate of local recurrence in women with multiple ipsilateral breast cancer sites. Study Details A total of 204 ...
In a phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Julie E. Bauman, MD, MPH, and colleagues found that the combination of the antihepatocyte growth factor antibody ficlatuzumab and cetuximab was active in patients with cetuximab-resistant, recurrent or metastatic head and neck...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Kim N. Chi, MD, and colleagues, the phase III MAGNITUDE trial showed that the addition of niraparib to abiraterone acetate and prednisone improved radiographic progression–free survival as first-line treatment in patients with metastatic...
In a 5-year analysis of the UK/Swiss phase III REMoDL-B trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Davies et al found that the addition of bortezomib to R-CHOP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone; RB-CHOP) as initial treatment was associated with...
In a European study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sauta et al found that the recently devised Molecular International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS-M) had improved prognostic ability vs the standard Revised International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS-R) in patients with...
In a study reported in a research letter in JAMA Oncology, Konstantinidou et al found that the prevalence of hypercalcemia increased over time in patients with cholangiocarcinoma and was significantly more common in those with IDH1-mutant intrahepatic disease. Study Details The study involved...
In a study reported in JAMA Network Open, Holt et al found that health insurance status was a substantial mediator in the diagnosis of advanced-stage vs early-stage cervical cancer across ethnicity and race in patients from the United States. Study Details The retrospective, cross-sectional,...
In a Swedish case-cohort study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Eriksson et al found that an image-based short-term risk model outperformed a traditional lifestyle/familial risk–based risk model in predicting the likelihood of development of breast cancer over a 10-year period. Study...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sarfaty et al identified novel genetic subtypes of urothelial carcinoma exhibiting different responses to immune checkpoint blockade. Study Details In the multicenter study, whole-exome sequencing was performed on tumor specimens from 88...
In a study reported in a research letter in JAMA Oncology, Tang et al found that the use of the subcutaneous route for administering medications and fluids in patients with cancer was highly predominant in a Canadian center, whereas use of the intravenous (IV) route was nearly universal in a U.S....
In a retrospective cohort study reported in JAMA Network Open, Fulop et al found that perichemotherapy use of antibiotics was associated with improved survival in patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma receiving first-line gemcitabine-based chemotherapy, but not in those...
In a phase IIb trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Serrano et al found that exemestane at 25 mg three times weekly was noninferior to the standard dosing of 25 mg once daily in terms of serum estradiol reduction among postmenopausal patients with stage 0 to II estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Jennifer K. Plichta, MD, MS, and colleagues formulated a novel prognostic staging system for de novo metastatic breast cancer. Study Details The staging system was developed using data from 42,467 patients from the National Cancer Database...
In a cohort study reported in a research letter in JAMA Surgery, Minami et al found that frailty status worsened in a sizable proportion of older patients receiving locoregional therapy—including lumpectomy or mastectomy—for early-stage breast cancer. Baseline robust status and mastectomy were...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by de Braud et al, findings in the expansion cohort of a phase Ib trial indicate activity with the combination of the BRAF/CRAF kinase inhibitor naporafenib and trametinib in patients with advanced or metastatic NRAS-mutant melanoma. Study Details In ...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Burgos et al developed an algorithm to identify patients with multiple myeloma and light-chain amyloidosis who have the monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS)-like phenotype, as well as identified the association of the...
In a study reported in JAMA Oncology, En Cheng, MD, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Jeffrey Meyerhardt, MD, MPH, FASCO, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues found that higher levels of inflammatory biomarkers measured after surgery but before starting chemotherapy were ...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vidrine et al found that a smoking cessation intervention was not effective among patients with a history of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or cervical cancer. Study Details In the trial, 194 evaluable patients who reported current...
In a systematic review and meta-analysis reported in JAMA Oncology, Riaz et al found that first-line triplet therapy in metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer did not appear to offer an overall survival advantage vs androgen pathway inhibitor doublet therapy. As stated by the...
As reported in The Lancet by Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, of the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and colleagues, updated results of the phase III DESTINY-Breast03 trial showed significantly improved overall survival with...
As reported in The Lancet by Adrianus Johannes de Langen, MD, PhD, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, and colleagues, the phase III CodeBreaK200 trial has shown a small but significant improvement in progression-free survival with sotorasib vs docetaxel in previously treated advanced...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Paula Rodriguez-Otero, MD, PhD, of Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and colleagues, an interim analysis of the phase III KarMMa-3 trial has shown superior progression-free survival with the B-cell maturation antigen–directed...
On January 27, 2023, pirtobrutinib was granted accelerated approval for treatment of relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma after at least two lines of systemic therapy, including a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor.1 Pirtobrutinib is a noncovalent inhibitor of BTK. Supporting Efficacy...
On February 9, 2023, dostarlimab-gxly was granted regular approval for adults with mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR) recurrent or advanced endometrial cancer, as determined by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved test, whose disease has progressed on or following a prior platinum-containing...
In an analysis from the French GAZEL study reported in JACC: CardioOncology, Thomas Van Sloten, MD, PhD, of the Université Paris Cité, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, and colleagues found that better cardiovascular health (CVH) scores at baseline and improvement in ...
In an analysis reported in JACC: CardioOncology, Cenjing Zhu, MPhil, of the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University, and colleagues found that Black patients with cancer in the United States were at increased risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular (CVD) mortality...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Karim Fizazi, MD, PhD, of Gustave Roussy Institute, Paris-Saclay University, and colleagues, the phase III TRITON3 trial has shown significantly improved progression-free survival with rucaparib vs physician-selected single-agent therapy in the...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Vratislav Strnad, MD, PhD, of University Hospital Erlangen and Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen, Germany, and colleagues, 10-year outcomes in a phase III GEC-ESTRO (Groupe Européen de Curiethérapie and European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology) trial...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University, and colleagues, the phase III ALPINE trial has shown significantly better progression-free survival with zanubrutinib, a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK)...
In the UK phase II OCTOPUS study reported in JAMA Oncology, Susana Banerjee, MBBS, MA, PhD, and colleagues found that the addition of the dual mTORC1/mTORC2 inhibitor vistusertib to weekly paclitaxel did not improve progression-free survival among patients with platinum-resistant or -refractory...
In a global systematic review and meta-analysis reported in The Lancet Oncology, Li et al found a high prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype 16 and HPV33 in vulvar cancer and vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, as well as a high frequency of p16INK4a positivity in HPV-positive vulvar...
In a phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Daneshmand et al found that first-line retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) was associated with good outcomes in patients with testicular seminoma with clinically low-volume retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy. As stated by the...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Freddie C. Hamdy, FRCS(Urol), FMedSci, and colleagues, 15-year follow-up of the UK phase III ProtecT trial has shown no significant difference in prostate cancer mortality with active monitoring, surgery, or radiotherapy for patients with...
As reported in JAMA Surgery by Etoh et al, 5-year follow-up of the Japanese phase II/III JLSSG0901 trial has shown noninferiority in relapse-free survival with laparoscopic-assisted distal gastrectomy vs open distal gastrectomy in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer. Study Details In the...
In a phase II trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Locke J. Bryan, MD, and colleagues found that the combination of pembrolizumab with ICE chemotherapy (a regimen including ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide) produced a high rate of complete response in patients with relapsed or refractory...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Lazzeroni et al, the 10-year follow-up of the Italian phase III TAM-01 trial has shown that 3 years of low-dose tamoxifen vs placebo continued to be associated with a reduced risk of recurrence of invasive breast cancer or ductal carcinoma in situ...
In a single-center phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Renata Ferrarotto, MD, and colleagues found that the combination of axitinib and avelumab showed evidence of activity in patients with recurrent or metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma. Study Details In the study, 28...
In an article published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, James L. Mulshine, MD, and colleagues maintained that the high frequency of emphysema newly identified during low-dose computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening presents an important opportunity to engage individuals with such ...
In a Chinese single-center phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Xia et al found that anti–G protein–coupled receptor, class C group 5 member D (GPRC5D) chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells showed activity in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. Study...
In the phase II TBCRC041 trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Haddad et al found that the addition of fulvestrant to alisertib did not improve objective response rate in postmenopausal patients with HER2-negative, endocrine-resistant metastatic breast cancer. Study Details The multicenter trial,...
In a Chinese study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Wu et al found that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based lymph node metastases diagnostic model using whole-slide images performed well in identifying lymph node metastases in patients with bladder cancer, as well as other cancers. Study Details...
In an analysis by Deloitte Access Economics, commissioned by Teen Cancer America and reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Parsons et al estimated the costs incurred after a cancer diagnosis by adolescents and young adults (AYAs) in the United States. Study Details The objective of the...
In a phase Ib trial (5F9005) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, David A. Sallman, MD, and colleagues found that the combination of magrolimab and azacitidine showed activity in previously untreated patients with intermediate- to very high–risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). As stated...
In an analysis from the phase III KEYNOTE-826 trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Bradley J. Monk, MD, and colleagues found that the addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab did not adversely affect health-related quality of life in patients with persistent,...
In a single-institution phase I trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Marwan Fakih, MD, and colleagues found that the combination of regorafenib, ipilimumab, and nivolumab showed evidence of activity in patients with microsatellite-stable metastatic colorectal cancer who did not have liver metastases....
In a Chinese phase III trial reported in The Lancet, You et al found that hyperfractionated vs standard-fractionation intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) was associated with reduced late severe radiotherapy complications and improved overall survival in patients with locally advanced, recurrent ...
In the phase II MANIFEST trial, reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, John Mascarenhas, MD, and colleagues found that the combination of the bromodomain and extraterminal domain inhibitor pelabresib and ruxolitinib was active in patients with myelofibrosis who had received no prior Janus...