All Oncology News

The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to the PD-L1 inhibitor avelumab (Bavencio) for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma with disease progression during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy, or within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant platinum-containing chemotherapy.

The FDA has approved co-packaging of the oral medications ribociclib (Kisqali) and letrozole (Femara) for the treatment of postmenopausal women with HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Wolfgang Janni, MD, PhD, discusses toxicity management with neratinib and other agents for HER2-positive breast cancer, as well as emerging treatments and impactful trials in the field.

Researchers have successfully performed autonomous retroflexion of a robotic capsule during colonoscopy in a subject animal, according to data presented during Digestive Disease Week 2017 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

The first cerebral edema death in the ZUMA-1 CAR T-cell therapy trial was disclosed today by Kite Pharma on a conference call with investors announcing the company’s first quarter financial results.

JUNO Therapeutics announced that it hopes to accelerate its process for developing CAR T cells from weeks to just 2 days.

Sattva S. Neelapu, MD, discusses the ZUMA-1 trial and the potential impact of these results on patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Christopher J. Kane, MD, discusses the challenges and impact of genetic testing on patients with prostate cancer.

Steven Coutre, MD, discusses ongoing efforts to enhance frontline outcomes for patients with CLL.

Grzegorz S. Nowakowski, MD, discusses ongoing efforts to determine prognostic factors of mantle cell lymphoma and what other challenges lie ahead.

Adding bevacizumab to standard platinum-based chemotherapy was associated with a clinically significant improvement in median overall survival in women with recurrent ovarian cancer.

Daniel Morgensztern, MD, discusses both the single-agent and combination immunotherapy data in non-small cell lung cancer and what researchers are poised to do next in the field.

Jeffrey P. Ward, MD, PhD, discusses the questions researchers still face about targeting the immune system and exactly what role T-cell receptor therapy could play in the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Zoptarelin doxorubicin (Zoptrex), a hybrid molecule combining an LHRH-agonist and doxorubicin, failed to improve median overall survival in a phase III advanced endometrial cancer trial, according to the manufacturer of the treatment, Aeterna Zentaris.

The European Commission has approved pembrolizumab for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma who have progressed following autologous stem cell transplant and brentuximab vedotin, or who are transplant-ineligible and have failed brentuximab vedotin.

Researchers may be able to predict which patients with CRPC are most likely to have poorer outcomes while undergoing targeted therapy, according to the results of the PREMIERE trial.

Richard M. Stone, MD, discusses the impact that midostaurin could have for patients with AML, as well as ongoing research with the agent.

Preclinical findings showed that the combination of the investigational agent birinapant and carboplatin could eliminate platinum-resistant, high-grade serous carcinoma ovarian tumor cells.

House Republicans have passed a revised version of the American Health Care Act by a vote of 217 to 213, without any Democratic support, and despite strenuous opposition from the healthcare community.

W. Marston Linehan, MD, discusses the landscape of kidney cancer, current clinical trials, and hope for the future of immunotherapy in this disease.

Aarti Bhatia, MD, highlights the newer single agents and combination treatments being investigated for patients with head and neck cancer.

Women who underwent bariatric surgery to combat obesity were less likely to develop any cancer and female-specific cancers, as demonstrated in results published in Gynecologic Oncology.

Lynn Acton, MS, CCC (SLP), discusses the significance of swallowing modalities for patients with head and neck cancer.

Debu Tripathy, MD, discusses current and emerging treatment strategies in the neoadjuvant setting for patients with HER2-postive breast cancer.

Siddhartha Devarakonda, MD, discusses the importance of testing for molecular markers in NSCLC, rare mutations, and what work lies ahead for the field of lung cancer.

Benjamin L. Judson, MD, highlights the importance of a multidisciplinary team and shares insight on some of the advancements related to surgery for patients with head and neck cancer.

Within the last 30 days of life, black and Latina women with ovarian cancer were less likely than white women to enroll in hospice care, according to results recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Bruno Sangro, MD, PhD, discusses the CheckMate-040 data and the future of immuno-oncology agents in HCC.

Jonathan Riess, MD, shares his insight on the game-changing efficacy of osimertinib in non-small cell lung cancer and its potential in combination, considering factors for choosing an EGFR TKI, and the burgeoning questions clinicians still have with the EGFR-mutant population.

The rollout of the Oncology Care Model from CMS has proven to be a challenging road, specifically involving technological challenges, as practices have scrambled to find seamless solutions to bridging old electronic health records with new "patches" designed for the OCM.