Use of high-dose ifosfamide (Ifex®) was found to be superior for treating recurrent and primary refractory Ewing sarcoma compared to three other standard-of-care treatments that are used for the disease, according to research that will be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
June 5, 2022
June 4, 2022
The use of sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy®) an antibody-drug conjugate, resulted in longer progression-free survival compared to physician’s choice of chemotherapy in patients who have received many prior therapies and who had hormone-receptor positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HR+/HER2-) metastatic breast cancer, according to new research to be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
June 3, 2022
Ibrutinib (Imbruvica™) combined with bendamustine-rituximab improved progression-free survival by 50% for older patients with newly diagnosed mantle cell lymphoma compared to patients who received a placebo plus bendamustine-rituximab, according to new research that will be reported at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
June 3, 2022
The addition of nimotuzumab to gemcitabine (Gemzar®) increases overall survival in patients with K-Ras wild-type advanced pancreatic cancer, particularly for patients who did not need surgery for obstruction of a pancreatic bile duct, according to new research to be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
May 26, 2022
With the rapid acceleration of the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the United States in March 2020, telemedicine visits became more common for cancer care. However, in an evaluation of telemedicine inequities in 21 common cancers, there were distinctly lower levels of telemedicine use by Black patients and those who were uninsured, lived in suburban or rural areas, and resided in a neighborhood with low socioeconomic status. The research will be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
May 26, 2022
A survey of metastatic breast cancer patients found that 83% of Black respondents were somewhat or very likely to consider clinical trial participation; however, 40% of those respondents reported that they had not been informed by their care team about the opportunity to enroll in a trial. The research will be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
May 26, 2022
States that increased investments in social services spending by 10% compared to those that did not increase spending – including Medicaid and other social services for socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals – showed improved five-year overall survival for non-Hispanic Black adults with cancer, according to new research. There was also a decrease in racial disparities in survival between non-Hispanic Black and white patients for many different types of cancers. The study will be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
May 26, 2022
Children with high-risk neuroblastoma from historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups had a higher probability of dying than other children despite equal planned treatment on pediatric clinical trials, according to research that will be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
May 3, 2022
Oncology professionals from around the world will convene in Chicago to discuss the latest clinical cancer research impacting patient care at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Advances in therapies for rare and pediatric cancers, findings on disparities among patients with cancer, and new treatment options for patients with advanced breast, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers are among the topics that will be highlighted in the meeting’s official Press Program.
March 14, 2022
Patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer without EGFR/ALK mutations who were treated with toripalimab plus first-line chemotherapy had better progression-free survival and overall survival compared to patients who received chemotherapy alone, according to research from the CHOICE-01 trial.
March 14, 2022
In patients with previously untreated metastatic or unresectable melanoma, the combination of nivolumab and relatlimab continued to demonstrate a progression-free survival benefit compared to nivolumab alone. The combination also demonstrated for the first time a higher overall response rate according to follow-up data from the RELATIVITY-047 trial. These data will be presented during an ASCO Plenary Series session taking place March 15, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. ET.
February 14, 2022
Taking aspirin daily did not improve invasive disease-free survival (iDFS) in breast cancer patients, according to research being presented in the February 15, 2022 ASCO Plenary Series session.
February 14, 2022
Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths; however, despite decades of research, limited progress has been made to improve survival. There are currently no FDA-approved treatment options for patients with pancreatic cancer that has progressed on first- and second-line chemotherapy. Sotorasib is active and well tolerated in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer with a KRASG12C mutation, according to research being presented in the February 15, 2022, ASCO Plenary Series session.
February 14, 2022
A scoring algorithm that incorporated 290 genetic variants for prostate cancer (PHS290) accurately identified people with high or low lifetime risks of developing metastatic prostate cancer or dying from the disease. Based on the risk scores, people with an African ancestry had the highest risk of developing metastatic prostate cancer and dying of the disease. The study will be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, taking place February 17-19, 2022, in San Francisco, California.
February 3, 2022
Findings on a scoring algorithm for predicting the risk of developing metastatic or fatal prostate cancer will be highlighted in the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Genitourinary Cancers Symposium’s official Press Program. Studies featured in the Press Program are among the nearly 600 abstracts that will be presented at the Symposium.
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