October 01, 2020
Article
During a Targeted Oncology Case Based Peer Perspectives event, Ghasson K. Abou-Alfa, MD, reviewed the case of a 77-year old woman with hepatocellular carcinoma.
September 23, 2020
Article
Immune checkpoint inhibitors blocking CTLA-4 or PD-1/PD-L1 often provide durable antitumor benefits to certain patients who respond to them; however, the percentage of responders is low, around 15% to 25%.
September 22, 2020
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Clinical Articles
In a post hoc analysis of the randomized phase 3 SURTIME trial of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, early treatment with sunitinib demonstrated better control over the disease as well as detection of progression before planned cytoreductive nephrectomy.
September 22, 2020
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Clinical Articles
Inequities in patient enrollment to cancer clinical trials has once again bubbled to the surface of cancer conversations, resulting in collaboration between clinicians to address and overcome the barriers observed
September 18, 2020
Article
As efforts to reduce exposure to the coronavirus ramped up, nonemergency surgical procedures were halted, screening procedures were delayed, and the amount of new cancer diagnoses declined.
September 17, 2020
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Clinical Articles
An analysis of patient samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas indicated a possible connection between tumor responses to immunotherapy and patient baseline characteristics after investigators discovered evidence of stronger immune selection by female and younger patients in early tumorigenesis.
September 16, 2020
Article
Jorge A. Rios, MD, a medical oncologist at Zangmeister Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio, part of the American Oncology Network, shared the case of a woman who developed multiple severe adverse events attributable to durvalumab.
September 15, 2020
Article
Arjun V. Balar, MD, reviewed the data from the KEYNOTE-057 and how they impact the treatment of urothelial cancer in an editorial note.
September 15, 2020
Article
As COVID-19 alters current approaches to caring for patients with cancer, early emerging research data reinforce what practicing oncologists have been observing in their patients are at increased risk of mortality.
September 15, 2020
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Clinical Articles
PARP inhibitors have propelled the field of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer forward as the next class of therapeutics to advance outcomes.