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issues in oncology

Study Finds AI Chatbots Are Vulnerable to Spreading Malicious, False Health Information

While artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) hold the promise to help consumers find trustworthy health information, a study assessing the safeguards incorporated into these models has found that they are vulnerable to malicious instruction that converts them into health...

issues in oncology

Nearly 50% of All Cancer Deaths Worldwide Attributable to Modifiable Risk Factors

New data reported 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 exposure,...

lung cancer

I Was Expecting to Hear I Have Heart Disease, Not Cancer

In 2022, I had a computed tomography (CT) coronary calcium scan to see whether there were any signs of narrowing or blockage in my heart arteries. Heart disease runs in my family. My father died of a heart attack the year before, and I worried that I was at risk for the same fate. It was a complete ...

breast cancer
genomics/genetics

How a Commonly Inherited Genetic Alteration Is Driving Breast Cancer Metastasis and Predicting Survival

A common germline variant in the proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) (rs562556, V474I) gene rather than a mutation in a breast cancer tumor may be the driving force in significantly increasing the risk of breast cancer metastasis and reducing survival in women with the disease....

issues in oncology

Establishing Novel Models of Interdisciplinary Care to Improve Survival Outcomes in Patients With Cancer

Internationally renowned for her decades-long pioneering research in pancreatic cancer, in 2024, Diane M. Simeone, MD, left her positions as the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Surgery and Pathology; Director, Pancreatic Cancer Center; and Associate Director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center...

breast cancer
global cancer care

Chronicling the Extraordinary Career of Stephen R. Grobmyer, MD, FACS, in Breast Cancer Research, Surgery, and Treatment

In this installment of The ASCO Post’s Living a Full Life series, Guest Editor Jame Abraham, MD, FACP, spoke with Stephen R. Grobmyer, MD, FACS, about his clinical and research career in oncology, the challenges and rewards of moving to Abu Dhabi and building a state-of-the-art cancer center, and...

issues in oncology
legislation

Proposed Budget Cuts to Medicaid May Result in More Than 16,500 Medically Preventable Deaths Annually

The “One, Big, Beautiful” reconciliation bill making its way through Congress, which would make permanent provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to expire this year, includes massive cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage. An analysis of six potential Medicaid cuts...

solid tumors

Early-Onset Breast, Colorectal, Melanoma, Thyroid, Testicular, and Other Cancers Are on the Rise in the United States

A study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) investigating cancer incidence in the United States between 2010 and 2019 has found that breast, colorectal, endometrial, pancreatic, and kidney cancers are becoming more common among individuals younger than age 50. Although the study...

gynecologic cancers

I Was an N-of-1 in a CAR T-Cell Therapy Trial for Ovarian Cancer

More than a decade after I was diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer, a phase I clinical trial at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, investigating a dose of a novel follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR)-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy...

issues in oncology
breast cancer

Why Black Women Have a Higher Risk of Dying of All Types of Breast Cancer Than White Women

The disparities in breast cancer incidence and mortality rates between Black and White women in the United States have been well documented. Studies over the past decade consistently show that although Black women have a 4% lower breast cancer incidence rate than White women, they are still between ...

issues in oncology

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...

colorectal cancer

Structured Exercise Program Improves Survival Outcomes in Patients With Stage III or High-Risk Stage II Colon Cancer

A 3-year structured exercise program initiated soon after completion of adjuvant chemotherapy improved disease-free survival and overall survival, as well as patient-reported physical functioning and health-related fitness, in patients with stage III or high-risk stage II colon cancer. These...

issues in oncology

Study Finds GLP-1RAs May Lower Risk of Obesity-Related Cancers vs DPP-4 Inhibitors in Adults With Diabetes and Obesity

Studies have shown that being overweight or having obesity increases the risk of developing more than a dozen cancers, including meningioma, multiple myeloma, esophageal, thyroid, breast, gallbladder, stomach, liver, pancreas, kidney, ovarian, uterus, and colorectal.1 The presence of excess body...

colorectal cancer

ASCO 2025: Structured Exercise Program Improves Survival, Outcomes in Some Patients With Colon Cancer

A phase III study has found that a 3-year structured exercise program initiated soon after completion of adjuvant chemotherapy improves disease-free and overall survival, as well as patient-reported physical functioning and health-related fitness, in patients with stage III and high-risk stage II...

How Family Adventures, Precision Oncology, and Living Purposefully Bring Balance to the Life of Charu Aggarwal, MD, MPH, FASCO

At just 5 years old, Charu Aggarwal, MD, MPH, FASCO, already knew that she wanted to be a physician when she grew up, although she can’t explain where the idea came from. She just knows the desire to help others was ingrained in her from a very early age. Growing up in New Delhi, India, where...

lung cancer

I Have Stage IV Lung Cancer and Still Consider Myself the Luckiest Man in the World

Although I have spent the past 2 decades of my medical career as a primary care physician, educator, and researcher in conditions that disproportionately affect people of Asian descent, including lung cancer, I was still unprepared to hear the words “You have stage IV non–small cell lung...

integrative oncology
palliative care

Bringing Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine Into Everyday Oncology Practice

Despite the significant rise over the past 50 years in the use of evidence-based integrative medicine in conjunction with conventional cancer treatments—up from just 20% in the 1970s to about 80% in 20171—training opportunities in the fundamentals of this emerging field within the specialty of...

issues in oncology

What Is the Value in Cost and Lives Saved of Cancer Screening and Prevention?

Several recent studies have shown the value of cancer screening in reducing the number of deaths from the disease. One study using computer modeling to estimate the number of cancer-related deaths that could be averted by increasing the use of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)...

issues in oncology

The Power of Translational Science to Transform the Lives of Patients Worldwide

Despite a 30-year history as an ASCO volunteer, for Eric J. Small, MD, FASCO, this past year as President-Elect has opened new perspectives on the organization he will soon lead as ASCO’s 62nd President, effective during the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting, May 30–June 3, 2025, in Chicago. After serving...

issues in oncology

GLP-1 RAs May Lower Risk of Obesity-Related Cancers

Studies have shown that having overweight or obesity increases the risk of developing more than a dozen cancers, including meningioma; multiple myeloma; and esophageal, thyroid, breast, gallbladder, stomach, liver, pancreatic, kidney, ovarian, uterine, and colorectal cancers. The presence of excess ...

solid tumors

Early-Onset Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial, Pancreatic, and Kidney Cancers on the Rise

Recent studies have shown increasing rates of early-onset cancers, often defined as cancers occurring in people younger than age 50, especially colorectal, pancreatic, female breast, and uterine cancers, and younger birth cohorts seem to have a higher risk of some cancer types compared with older...

multiple myeloma

How Could So Many Physicians Have Failed Me?

The first sign that something was terribly wrong was in 2015, when I began to feel so fatigued that it was difficult to get out of bed even after 8 to 10 hours of sleep. I’ve been full of energy my whole life and couldn’t understand why I was so tired all the time. Then I began to experience...

issues in oncology

2024 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer Finds Mortality Rates Continue to Decline

Overall deaths from cancer over the past 2 decades have steadily declined in both men and women in the United States, according to the 2024 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, which was published by Recinda L. Sherman, MPH, PhD, ODS-C, of the North American Association of Central...

hematologic malignancies

Off-the-Shelf Natural Killer CAR T-Cell Therapy Shows Efficacy in Small Study of Relapsed or Refractory Blood Cancers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in 2017 to treat children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.1 Over the past decade, other CAR T-cell therapies have been FDA approved to treat adults with blood cancers, including...

integrative oncology

Applications Are Now Open for the 2025 Integrative Oncology Scholars Program and Integrative Oncology Fellows Program

Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 Integrative Oncology Scholars Program and Integrative Oncology Fellows Program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (https://sites.google.com/view/integrative-oncology-scholars-/home). Launched in 2018, the Integrative Oncology Scholars Program ...

solid tumors
genomics/genetics

AACR 2025: Survival Outcomes May Improve When Treatment Is Guided by Using Both Tissue and Liquid Biopsies

Although next-generation sequencing to assist decision-making for genomics-driven therapy in patients with advanced solid tumors has traditionally been conducted using tissue biopsy samples, recent data support the use of plasma-based circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) for the genomic profiling of solid ...

leukemia
hematologic malignancies
immunotherapy

AACR 2025: Off-the-Shelf Natural Killer CAR Therapy Active in Hematologic Malignancies

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in 2017 to treat children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Over the past decade, other CAR T-cell therapies have been FDA-approved to treat adults with blood cancers, including...

colorectal cancer

AACR 2025: Use of ctDNA-Based Liquid Biopsy Assay in Resectable Colorectal Cancer

Interim results from the VICTORI study showed that an ultrasensitive circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)-based liquid biopsy assay was effective in detecting signs of cancer recurrence prior to imaging and provided prognostic value within 1 month after surgery in patients with colorectal cancer. The...

breast cancer

Raising Awareness of Inflammatory Breast Cancer

In late January 2013, while playing with my young son, I noticed my left breast seemed slightly larger than my right breast. Although, at the time, I had no idea this type of swelling is a hallmark of inflammatory breast cancer, a rare and aggressive disease, I immediately made an appointment with...

issues in oncology
covid-19

Insights From Annual Report on Cancer Statistics

Overall deaths from cancer over the past 2 decades have steadily declined in both men and women in the United States, according to the 2024 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, published today by Sherman et al in Cancer. The report also found that although the incidence of cancer...

lung cancer
immunotherapy

Some Patients With Advanced NSCLC Experience Durable Disease Control After Immunotherapy Discontinuation

Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have transformed the treatment landscape over the last decade for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the agents can also stimulate uncontrolled immunity against normal tissues and organs, leading to a cascade of immune-related adverse...

pancreatic cancer
genomics/genetics

Preclinical Study Finds FGFR2 Inhibition May Prevent Some KRAS-Expressing Pancreatic Cancers

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common type of pancreatic cancer, is also among the most deadly, with an average 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. The malignancy is often preceded by precancerous lesions. Traditional treatments of the cancer, including chemotherapy, surgery, and...

prostate cancer

Screening Was Key to the Early Detection of My Prostate Cancer

As a Native American and former president of the Seneca Nation of Indians, I am keenly aware of the disparities in cancer care we face in accessing screening and treatment, which results in worse survival rates compared with those of racial and ethnic populations.1 Native American and Alaska Native ...

palliative care

Bringing Palliative Care to Every Patient With Cancer

Janet L. Abrahm, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, FASCO, has spent more than half of her oncology career as a palliative care physician. After receiving her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in 1973, Dr. Abrahm completed her internship and residency at Massachusetts General...

global cancer care
issues in oncology

Confronting the Growing Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance in Cancer Care

The dire warnings about the lethal consequences of unchecked antimicrobial resistance are getting louder and becoming more urgent. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has called antimicrobial resistance “one of the most important health security threats of our time,” with at least 2.8...

lung cancer

Study Finds Wildfires Pose Health Threat for Patients Recovering From Lung Cancer Surgery

Studies have shown that not only does exposure to wildfire smoke, which contains fine particulate matter, increase the risk of developing lung cancer, it can also significantly reduce survival rates among patients recovering from lung cancer surgery. A large national study by researchers at the...

issues in oncology
global cancer care
health-care policy

How the Cancer Moonshot Is Making a Difference for Patients Here and Across the World

Catharine Young, PhD, has spent the past decade of her career focused on cancer policy and advocacy. A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, Dr. Young served as Senior Director of Science Policy at the Biden Cancer Initiative, which began in 2017 by then former Vice President Joe Biden. There she...

colorectal cancer
pancreatic cancer
gastrointestinal cancer

Overcoming Resistance to KRAS G12C Inhibitors in Pancreatic and Colorectal Cancers

A study evaluating the genetic landscape of candidate primary resistance alterations relevant to KRAS targeting in KRAS G12C–mutant colorectal cancers and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC) has found that putative resistance alterations are prevalent in these cancers. The finding may explain...

bladder cancer

Combination Immunotherapy Plus Radiotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

Studies show that although radical cystectomy has long been recognized as the standard-of-care for localized muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), the surgery carries significant morbidity and the risk of subsequent loss of quality of life for patients. Preclinical studies have suggested that a...

issues in oncology

Cancer Mortality Rates Continue to Decline, Incidence Rates in Women Rise, and Racial Disparities Persist

The findings in the American Cancer Society (ACS) annual report, Cancer Statistics, 2025,1 showed a mixed trend in cancer incidence and mortality rates. Although cancer mortality declined by 34% from 1991 to 2022 in the United States—largely because of smoking reductions, earlier detection, and...

Talazoparib Plus Enzalutamide Significantly Improves Overall Survival in Prostate Cancer Regardless of HRR Gene Status

Studies show that about one-quarter of advanced prostate cancers have alterations in DNA damage response genes involved directly or indirectly in homologous recombination repair (HRR) gene alterations, including BRCA1/BRCA2 genes, which can sensitize them to treatment with PARP inhibitors. Final...

breast cancer

I’m a 2.0 Version of Myself After Cancer

Although there’s no history of breast cancer in my family, when I was 10, my pediatrician introduced me to breast self-exams, so I would become familiar with my breasts and learn to spot any unusual changes as I got older. I remember her telling me this was an especially important exercise to do...

palliative care
lung cancer

How Telehealth Is Broadening Access to Early Palliative Care and Improving Outcomes for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer

Although national guidelines, including ASCO’s palliative care guideline,1 call for the early integration of palliative and oncology care for patients with advanced cancer, only 36% of those with a very poor prognosis and 18% of those with a poor prognosis receive palliative care services.2 The...

colorectal cancer

New Blood-Based Screening Test Accurately Detects Colorectal Cancer Risk in Adults Aged 45 and Older

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. This year, it’s expected that more than 53,000 individuals will die of the disease.1 Although screening for colorectal cancer through colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy is effective in detecting the...

issues in oncology
solid tumors

Only Half of Young Adults With Cancer Are Told of Fertility Preservation Options by Their Providers: Strategies for Improving That Number

Each year in the United States, approximately 90,000 adolescents and young adults (AYAs), defined as those between the ages of 15 and 39, are diagnosed with cancer, and about 9,300 die of the disease.1 Worldwide, the number of new cases of cancer in this age population tops 1,300,200—an increase of ...

prostate cancer
issues in oncology

Mobile Prostate Cancer Screening Clinic Was Effective in Detecting Prostate Cancer in Underserved Men

Globally, prostate cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer and the fifth-leading cause of cancer-related death among men—and the leading cause of cancer-related death in Central America and sub-Saharan Africa. Four years ago, British researchers launched the “Man Van” pilot mobile...

colorectal cancer

Results From FIRE-4 Show Liquid Biopsy Can Detect RAS/BRAF-Mutated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

The results from the phase III FIRE-4 randomized clinical trial show that liquid biopsy accurately identified patients with RAS/BRAF V600E wild type–mutated metastatic colorectal cancer. The findings confirm the high clinical relevance of liquid biopsy performed at baseline before the start of...

Young Patients With Cancer Living in Historic Redlined Neighborhoods Are Dying at Higher Rates Than Those in Nonredlined Areas

Studies have shown that adults living in historically redlined neighborhoods are less likely to be screened for breast, colorectal, and cervical cancers and have worse survival than those living in nonredlined areas. Redlining, a discriminatory, racist practice that began in the 1920s and 1930s in...

gynecologic cancers

Study Finds Therapeutic Vaccine Targeting HPV16 Is Safe and Effective in Eradicating Precancerous Cervical Lesions

The investigational therapeutic vaccine Vvax001 was found to be safe and showed preliminary clinical effectiveness in a phase II clinical trial of patients with HPV16-positive grade 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. If confirmed in a phase III trial, the vaccine may provide a nonsurgical option ...

lung cancer

Getting a Lung Cancer Diagnosis Was Shocking

For more than a year before my diagnosis of stage IA non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in 2020, I had been self-treating a relentless chronic cough and a slight feeling of tightness in my chest. The symptoms were similar to asthma, so I began using albuterol inhalers. When they stopped working, I ...

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