All Oncology News

To better understand how cancer initiates and spreads, Yale associate professor of pathology Qin Yan turned to the field of epigenetics, which examines changes in the expression of genes and proteins that do not affect the underlying genetic codes.

The regular use of aspirin lowers the risk for pancreatic cancer by almost 50 percent, a new study in China led by the Yale School of Public Health finds.

A new Yale study suggests that patients with a common form of lung cancer may still benefit from delayed chemotherapy started up to four months after surgery, according to the researchers.

Half of the patients in a Wisconsin Oncology Network (WON) clinical trial for a rare blood cancer are still in remission eight years after beginning treatment, according to new results of a follow-up to the study.

Regional Cancer Care Associates has continued its expansion along the East Coast by adding 2 Connecticut-based cancer centers with 6 cancer specialists to its network of independent practices.

The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to ibrutinib as a treatment for patients who require systemic therapy with marginal zone lymphoma following at least one prior anti-CD20-based therapy, based on findings from a single-arm phase II study.

A sharp decline has been observed in the overall rate of men receiving treatment for prostate cancer.

A direct assessment of the uterine microbiome in patients with endometrial cancer has revealed a potential predictive role for vaginal microbes.

Lenalidomide as a maintenance treatment for patients with newly diagnosed symptomatic multiple myeloma demonstrated encouraging phase III findings in the Myeloma X1 trial, which were presented at the 2016 ASH Annual Meeting.

Since the FDA approval of nivolumab in May 2016, researchers continue to explore agent as well as its fellow PD-1 inhibitor, pembrolizumab, in various treatment settings for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.

Data from the phase II PERTAIN trial presented late last year at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium showed that adding an aromatase inhibitor (AI) to pertuzumab and trastuzumab extended progression-free survival by over 3 months versus trastuzumab plus an AI in patients with HER2-positive, HR-positive locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Danelle James, MD, discusses the updated RESONATE-2 data presented at the ASH Annual Meeting and the next steps with ibrutinib in CLL.

Guru Sonpavde, MD, discusses challenges with sequencing in advanced renal cell carcinoma and his vision for the field going forward.

Denise A. Yardley, MD, discusses the phase II tnAcity trial, the current role of nab-paclitaxel in triple-negative breast cancer, and the potential for using nab-paclitaxel in combination with immunotherapy in this setting.

Activating, hotspot mutations in the NRAS gene occur in a small subset of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. These mutations are now being identified in routine clinical practice by extended RAS genotyping.

Cota, a New York-based precision informatics company, has developed what it says will be a significant aid for oncology practices working to conform to the expectations of CMS’s Oncology Care Model, which is designed to encourage physicians to strive for better patient outcomes and lower costs.

The Fc-modified monoclonal antibody margetuximab in combination with chemotherapy may offer a new treatment option for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

In the current treatment landscape of HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, there is a significant lack of biomarkers to predict recurrence.

As mortality rates continue to climb in endometrial cancer, there remains a pressing need for effective screening and diagnostics.

Anti-HER2 DC1 vaccination was demonstrated to be a safe and immunogenic treatment to induce tumor-specific T-cell responses in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

The fields of mantle cell lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma had a handful of updates presented during the 2016 ASH Annual Meeting.

Researchers are hoping the immunotherapy revolution occurring across several cancer types will extend to the field of sarcoma.

William Oh, MD, discusses the continued significant of docetaxel in advanced prostate cancer.

Emerging therapies in myeloproliferative disorders such as chronic myeloid leukemia, polycythemia vera, and myelofibrosis could have the potential to shake up the landscape.

Immunotherapy is quickly becoming a mainstay in the frontline setting for the treatment of patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

The FDA has granted a priority review to a supplemental biologics license application for pembrolizumab in combination with pemetrexed plus carboplatin as a treatment for patients with metastatic or advanced non-squamous non–small cell lung cancer, regardless of PD-L1 expression and without EGFR or ALK mutations.

Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, discusses the next steps with pembrolizumab in NSCLC, PD-L1 testing, and managing increased toxicities with combination regimens.

While mutations of the BRCA gene can increase a woman’s chances of developing breast and ovarian cancers, the presence of the gene made no difference in survival for women aged 40 years or younger who were diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.

The FDA has granted a priority review to a supplemental new drug application for the use of the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab in cisplatin-ineligible patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma as a frontline therapy or following progression occurring ≥12 months after neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy.

According to Dimosthenis Andreou, MD, patients with pelvic Ewing sarcoma have poorer local control and poorer overall survival.