Can Combo of Vemurafenib and Obinutuzumab Shake Up Hairy Cell Leukemia Paradigm?
October 26th 2019The standard of care for the frontline treatment of patients with hairy cell leukemia has been purine nucleoside analogs, including pentostatin and cladribine; however, investigators are challenging this treatment in a phase II clinical trial with a targeted therapy that may provide similar benefit with fewer toxicities.
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Ongoing Trial Demonstrates Promising PFS With Ibrutinib in Hairy Cell Leukemia
October 25th 2019Kerry Rogers, MD, discusses the potential of ibrutinib (Imbruvica) in hairy cell leukemia, emerging treatment options such as moxetumomab pasudotox (Lumoxiti), and next steps and challenges in the field.
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Inflammatory Breast Cancer Has Diagnostic Challenges, Requires More Awareness
October 5th 2019Naoto Tada Ueno, MD, PhD, FACP, discusses the diagnosis and treatment of patients with inflammatory breast cancer and highlights the biggest challenges in both diagnosing and treating this patient population.
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ctDNA Monitoring Carries Clinical Validity in Advanced BRAF-Mutant Melanoma
July 23rd 2019David Polsky, MD, PhD, discusses findings from an analysis in patients with BRAF-mutant, unresectable, metastatic melanoma, as well as the next steps for validating these findings and potentially using circulating tumor DNA to help inform treatment decisions.
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Osimertinib at Lower Dose Effective in EGFR-Mutant NSCLC With Leptomeningeal Metastases
May 24th 2019Myung-Ju Ahn, MD, discusses the results from the AURA LM trial and the next steps that need to be taken in order to confirm the efficacy that was seen with the lower dose of osimertinib in patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer with leptomeningeal metastases.
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Expert Shares Advantages, Challenges With Liquid Biopsies in Cancer Care
May 23rd 2019Geoffrey Oxnard, MD, discusses testing error underlying liquid biopsy discordance, steps clinicians can take to optimize liquid biopsy, and where he sees this evolving in the treatment landscape for patients with cancer.
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Durvalumab Being Explored in Real-World Setting of Locally Advanced Stage III NSCLC
May 21st 2019Nicolas Girad, MD, discusses the importance of evaluating durvalumab in a real-world setting, other questions that remain unanswered in this area, and the role of immunotherapy in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.
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Frontline Afatinib Shows Promise in EGFR+ NSCLC
May 21st 2019Antonio Passaro, MD, PhD, discusses findings from a phase IIIb trial for patients with EGFR mutation-positive non–small cell lung cancer and discussed results from other studies investigating ALK and KRAS mutations in patients with NSCLC.
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Quizartinib Poised to Expand FLT3 Inhibition Options in AML
April 16th 2019Quizartinib, a novel small molecule FLT3 inhibitor, is moving through the pipeline of new drugs under development for patients with FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia, part of a menu of targeted treatment options that is expanding as investigators learn more about the molecular heterogeneity of the disease.
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Bladder Cancer Guidelines Showcase Advent of Immunotherapy
March 24th 2019Thomas W. Flaig, MD, discusses the latest updates to the NCCN guidelines for the treatment of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer and highlights the latest approvals of checkpoint inhibitors in this patient population.
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NCCN Guidelines Update Increases Role of Genetic Testing in Prostate Cancer
March 23rd 2019Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, MD, discusses the prevalence of mismatch repair and homologous recombination deficiency genes and how they may play a role in determining a patient’s treatment plan in addition to promising agents that have been introduced to the field in clinical trials.
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Targeted Therapies Continue to Show Promise Against FLT3, IDH1/2 Mutations in AML
March 2nd 2019Jorge E. Cortes, MD, discusses the current treatment options for patients with acute myeloid leukemia, including the use of quizartinib in patients with FLT3 mutations, as well as data from the QuANTUM-R trial.
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Elevated Levels of ST2 and sC5b-9 Potentially Predictive of Thrombotic Microangiopathy
February 23rd 2019Christopher E. Dandoy, MD, MSc, discussed how higher levels of soluble suppression of tumorigenicity-2 and soluble terminal complement complex were associated with high-risk thrombotic microangiopathy, a severe complication related to stem cell transplantation.
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