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February 7, 2020
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MUNICH—More than four years median overall survival was reported in patients treated with an inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) for their ALK gene rearranged non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a single-arm phase two study reported at the 2018 …
Reporter: Sarah Maxwell
BARCELONA—Pembrolizumab did not significantly improve overall survival (OS) or progression free survival (PFS) compared with paclitaxel as second-line therapy in patients with advanced gastric or gastro-esophageal junction cancer that had progressed after one line of chemotherapy (containing …
BARCELONA—Oral cabozantinib “significantly improved†overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS) compared to placebo in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) whose disease had progressed despite sorafenib therapy in the phase 3 CELESTIAL trial reported to the 2018 ESMO World …
BARCELONA—A chemotherapy combination consisting of trifluridine with tipiracil showed a “clinically meaningful and statistically significant†improvement in overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS) compared with placebo in patients with heavily-pretreated metastatic gastric cancer (mGC) refractory to standard therapies …
CHICAGO—A 25 per cent risk reduction for esophageal cancer was found to be associated with prophylactic therapy consisting of a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) and aspirin in the phase three randomized ASPECT multicenter study from the United Kingdom reported at …
CHICAGO—Patients with resectable and “borderline resectable†pancreatic cancers treated with chemoradiation before surgery (followed by adjuvant chemotherapy) had significantly improved outcomes compared to those randomized to have surgery first and adjuvant chemotherapy in the Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group’sPREOPANC-1 randomized, controlled, …
CHICAGO—Patients with newly-diagnosed hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) who had prostate radiotherapy (RT) before their androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) lived longer than those treated with standard ADT alone in a retrospective analysis—the largest single-center experience to date of primary tumor-directed …
CHICAGO—Clinically targetable mutations were identified and patient subgroups pinpointed by whole genome sampling (WGS) of castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) in a study reportedatthe 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. (https://meetinglibrary.asco.org/record/160671/abstract)
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CHICAGO—A gene test that predicts for relapse in women with estrogen receptor positive early breast cancer can identify patients with low-risk disease who could safely avoid extending their endocrine therapy beyond the standard five years, according to study findings reported …
CHICAGO—Men who had breast-conserving therapy (BCT) including radiation for their early breast cancer lived longer than those who had total or partial mastectomy—with or without radiation—in findings from a large retrospective survey of male breast cancer reported at the 2018 …
CHICAGO—A “cluster randomized controlled trial†of treatment for patients with advanced cancers found that the use of standardized geriatric assessments significantly increased the number and quality of discussions about age-related concerns in comparison with usual care and also resulted in …
CHICAGO—Women and men were treated differently for the same tumor stages of head and neck cancer (HNC) and had different outcomes in a study with patients surveyed over a fifteen-year period in Santa Clara, California. The findings—using the generalized competing …
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