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Rebecca Dent, MD, discusses the findings from the phase 2 LOTUS trial that treated patients with inoperable locally advanced/metastatic triple-negative breast cancer with first-line ipatasertib plus paclitaxel.

We spoke with leading oncologists in breast cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, genitourinary cancers, and hematologic malignancies to gain their perspectives on the most significant studies in their specialties.

Ahead of the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program, we spoke with a handful of leading oncologists in breast cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, genitourinary cancers, and hematologic malignancies to gain their perspectives on the most significant studies in their respective specialties.

People who quit smoking at any time, even up to 2 years before a lung cancer diagnosis, have increased chances of survival after their diagnosis, according to data during a 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program press briefing.

The cancer mortality rate declined more in states that expanded Medicaid coverage than those that didn’t following the passage of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a study found.

The use of video conference technology significantly reduced anxiety and stress among individuals who provide care for an individual with cancer and live more than one hour away from the patient.

Integration of a comprehensive geriatric assessment with geriatrician-led management care improved health-related quality of life, unplanned hospital admissions, and treatment discontinuation among older adults undergoing systemic therapy for their cancer.

Treatment with olaparib in the maintenance setting extended overall survival by 12.9 months in women with platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer with BRCA1/2 mutations, compared with placebo, according to randomized phase 3 trial results presented during a 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program press briefing.

Transformative clinical trials of PARP inhibitors have revolutionized the frontline treatment paradigm in advanced ovarian cancer.

Strategies with PARP inhibitors in ovarian cancer should focus on combination strategies to more effectively treat a heterogeneous patient population.

The surge of treatment options for patients with ovarian cancer poses a daunting challenge as answers for optimal sequencing continue to elude clinicians.

Robert L. Coleman, MD, FACOG, FACS, discusses recent advancements made in the cervical cancer space.

Brian M. Slomovitz, MD, discusses sequencing strategies in endometrial cancer.

COM701, a novel, first-in-class immune checkpoint inhibitor, was found to demonstrate encouraging preliminary antitumor activity and good tolerability when used as either a monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in a number of heavily pretreated patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors, according to data from a phase 1 trial.

Alain Algazi, MD, discusses the benefit of continuous dosing with dabrafenib (Tafinlar) and trametinib (Mekinist) in patients with BRAF mutation–positive advanced melanoma.

The combination of the RAF-MEK inhibitor VS-6766 (CH5126766) and the FAK inhibitor defactinib (VS-6063) elicited early signals of clinical activity in a group of patients with KRAS-mutant advanced cancers.

Circulating tumor DNA may be a biomarker for the detection of postsurgical minimal residual disease and for determining the clonality of relapsing disease.

A cell-free DNA test demonstrated the potential to detect cancer and predict tissue of origin in patients with a suspicion of cancer, according to findings from the Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlas study presented at the 2020 AACR Virtual Annual Meeting I.

Early data from TERAVOLT, a global registry collecting characteristics and outcomes of patients with thoracic cancers affected by COVID-19, suggested an unexpectedly high mortality among this patient population.

A minimally invasive blood test has been found to be feasible to safely detect several types of cancers in patients without a history of malignancies, enabling treatment with curative intent in a subset of individuals.

Paolo A. Ascierto, MD, discussed lessons he has learned from the COVID-19 crisis both in the melanoma treatment paradigm and in the broader immuno-oncology spectrum.

Adoptive cell transfer with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes was found to be feasible, have a manageable toxicity profile, and expanded in 95% of patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who had disease progression on nivolumab (Opdivo).

Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil, discusses the rationale for the phase 2 I-SPY 2 trial examining the addition of durvalumab and olaparib to neoadjuvant paclitaxel in HER2-negative breast cancer.

A manageable safety profile was observed for the combination of atezolizumab and the anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, axicabtagene ciloleucel, in patients with refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The first-in-clinic universal CAR T-cell therapy TruUCAR GC027 induced promising early response rates and demonstrated a manageable safety profile with no evidence of neurotoxicity events or graft-versus-host disease in adult patients with relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Treating patients with cancer and coronavirus disease 2019 depends upon rapidly changing assessments of the standard of care as well as considerations of comorbidities and life expectancy.

ECOG performance status, cancer type, and type of prior therapy received can predict risk for clinical worsening or death in patients with cancer who contract the coronavirus disease 2019.

Nickolas Papadopoulos, PhD, professor of oncology and pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses the results of a study which evaluated a combined modality screening approach in women without a history of cancer.

Steven J. DiBiase, MD, chair and chief of service for the Julia and Ned Arnold Center for Radiation Oncology, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, vice chairman and assistant interim professor of radiation oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, discusses data with 4-demethyl-4 cholesteryloxycarbonylpenclomedine (DM-CHOC-PEN) plus radiation in cancers involving the central nervous system (CNS).

Treatment with CD19/22 chimeric antigen receptor CAR T cells induced a promising response in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.