May 1st 2024
Frontline pembrolizumab plus trastuzumab/chemotherapy improved overall survival in HER2-positive, unresectable or metastatic gastric/GEJ cancer.
Show Me Your Care Plan™: Nursing Considerations for Applying the Latest Approaches Across Care Settings in Melanoma
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Patient, Provider and Caregiver Connection™: Addressing Patient Concerns During the Treatment and Management of HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
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Breaking Down Biomarkers in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Case-Based Discussion for the Oncology Nurse
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Medical Crossfire®: Critical Questions on Diagnosis, Sequencing, and Selection of Systemic and Radioligand Therapy Options for Patients with GEP-NETs
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Medical Crossfire®: Expert Exchanges to Maximize Clinical Outcomes for Patients with CRPC Through Evidence-Based Personalized Therapy
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection: Addressing Pediatric and AYA Patient Concerns While Managing Hodgkin Lymphoma
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Go To PER in Chicago
May 31, 2024 - June 2, 2024
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The Top 10 Oncogenic Drivers in NSCLC for 2023: What You Need to Know on Tumor Testing, Targets, and Treatment Strategies to Move the Field Forward
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Individualizing Care for Patients with Schizophrenia—Understanding Patient Challenges and the Role of Innovative Treatment
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Improving Outcomes in Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemias at the Intersection Between Hematology and Oncology Care
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Oncology Consultations®: Next Generation SERDs—Key Data and Practical Takeaways for the Community Physician
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Medical Crossfire®: Leveraging Multidisciplinary Teams in Early–Stage Breast Cancer When the Goal is Cure
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Everything You Need to Know About PARP Inhibitor Combinations in Prostate Cancer Care: Why? For Whom? And When?
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Live “Hot Seat”: Experts Face Your Hot-Button Questions on Maximizing PARP Inhibitors in Patients With CRPC
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Multidisciplinary Management of TNBC: Immunotherapy, PARP, TROP2, Oh My!
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Expanding the Armamentarium of Actionable Mutations in NSCLC: Uncovering the Potential of CEACAM5 as a Therapeutic Target
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23rd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer® East
July 19-20, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 14th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies
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Advances In™: Targeting PSMA to Advance Diagnosis And Management Of Patients With Prostate Cancer
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Clinical Case Vignette Series: Integrating Recent Data into Practice to Improve Outcomes in Advanced Prostate Cancer
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Community Practice Connections™: The Advent of TROP2-Targeted Treatment Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
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Community Practice Connections™: Controversies and Conversations About HER2- Expressing Breast Cancer…Advances in Management of HER2-Low to -Positive Disease
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Community Practice Connections™: 8th Annual School of Gastrointestinal Oncology®
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Show Me the Data™: Do We Have Sea Change for Novel Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer? CDK, PI3K/AKT, ADC, and Next-Gen SERD Strategies Assessed
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B-Cell Tumor Board: Rendering Real World Personalized Treatment Plans in CLL/SLL and MCL Through the Lens of Emerging BTKi Evidence
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates from Chicago in Breast Cancer
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8th Annual School of Nursing Oncology™
August 10, 2024
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7th Annual Live Medical Crossfire®: Hematologic Malignancies
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates in RCC from Chicago
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Community Practice Connections™: Integrating BTK Inhibitors Into the CLL/SLL and MCL Treatment Paradigm
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Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Demonstrates Superior DFS Over Placebo in Post-Nephrectomy RCC
Single-agent pembrolizumab resulted in a significant improvement in disease-free survival when used as an adjuvant treatment in patients with renal cell carcinoma following nephrectomy or nephrectomy and resection of metastatic lesions, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 trial.
FDA Recommends Termination of Phase 2 Trial Examining Immunotherapy ERC1671 in Glioblastoma
The FDA has recommended the early termination of a phase 2 trial examining the cell-based immunotherapy ERC1671 in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, cyclophosphamide, and bevacizumab in patients with glioblastoma.
Bhave Spotlights Breakthroughs Made With Immunotherapy Combinations in TNBC
April 6th 2021Chemoimmunotherapy has become the standard of care for the frontline treatment of patients with PD-L1–positive, locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. However, understanding which patients will derive the most benefit from the approach is in need of further exploration
Canadian Collaborative Launches to Provide Infrastructure for Cancer Cell Therapy Research
March 31st 2021The Canada Foundation for Innovation has awarded C$5,187,685 to the Canadian Cancer Trials Group at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to fund the infrastructure for a new research platform to coordinate the development of new cancer cell therapies.
FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab for High-Risk TNBC
The FDA has issued a complete response letter to Merck stating that regulatory decision for the supplemental biologics license application seeking approval for pembrolizumab for use in patients with high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer plus chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment, then continuing as a single agent as adjuvant treatment following surgery, should be deferred.
Adjuvant Nivolumab Takes Step Toward EU Approval in Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma
The European Medicines Agency has validated its type II variation application for nivolumab as an adjuvant treatment for patients with surgically resected, high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma.
Durvalumab Use Differs in Real-World, PACIFIC Stage III NSCLC Populations
More patients with stage III non–small cell lung cancer received sequential chemoradiation and delayed the time to durvalumab treatment in a real-world setting compared with those enrolled on the phase 3 PACIFIC trial.
EU Panel Recommends Atezolizumab for Frontline PD-L1–High Metastatic NSCLC
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of atezolizumab for use as a frontline treatment in adult patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors have a high PD-L1 expression and no EGFR or ALK aberrations.
Immunotherapy Makes Waves in Gastroesophageal and Gastric Cancers
March 24th 2021Namrata (Neena) Vijayvergia, MD, discusses the emerging role of immunotherapy in resectable and metastatic esophageal and gastric cancers, as well as key nuances that could complicate these agents’ utility in clinical practice.
FDA Approves Pembrolizumab for Advanced Esophageal or GEJ Cancer
The FDA has approved pembrolizumab for use in combination with platinum and fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy for patients with metastatic or locally advanced esophageal or gastroesophageal carcinoma who are ineligible for surgical resection or definitive chemoradiation.
Atezolizumab Improves DFS Over BSC in PD-L1+ Resectable, Early-Stage NSCLC
The PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab was found to improve disease-free survival over best supportive care when used as an adjuvant treatment in patients with PD-L1–positive, stage II-IIIA non–small cell lung cancer, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 IMpower010 trial.
Chemo Reigns Control in Early-Stage TNBC, But Immunotherapy, ADCs Gain Ground in Metastatic Setting
Anthracyclines and taxanes remain a backbone in the early-stage setting of triple-negative breast cancer as further evaluations of immunotherapy in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings needs to be conducted—efforts that will continue to shape the treatment paradigm.
Tilsotolimod/Ipilimumab Fails to Improve ORR in PD-1 Refractory, Advanced Melanoma
The combination of tilsotolimod plus ipilimumab failed to improve objective response rate over ipilimumab alone in patients with advanced melanoma who are refractory to a PD-1 inhibitor, missing the primary end point of the phase 2 ILLUMINATE-301 trial.
Cemiplimab Phase 3 Trial Stopped Early Due to OS Benefit in Advanced Cervical Cancer
A phase 3 trial evaluating single-agent cemiplimab will be stopped early due to positive results demonstrating an overall survival benefit over chemotherapy in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer who previously received chemotherapy.
FDA Will Reassess 6 Immunotherapy Accelerated Approvals
March 12th 2021Six indications for immune checkpoint inhibitors granted under the FDA’s accelerated approval process that later failed confirmatory clinical trials are being reassessed as the agency continues an industry-wide evaluation of the pathway.
Checkpoint and PARP Inhibition Remain the Focus of Ongoing Research in TNBC
March 10th 2021The field of triple-negative breast cancer is pushing to improve treatment by answering questions regarding biomarkers of response, defining the utility of neoadjuvant approaches, and exploring potential combinations with checkpoint inhibitors and PARP inhibitors.
Frontline Nivolumab Plus Chemo Shows Practice-Changing Potential in GI Cancers
March 5th 2021Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, discussed the promise of nivolumab plus chemotherapy in patients with PD-L1–positive advanced gastric cancer, GEJ cancer, and esophageal adenocarcinoma, as well as important biomarkers that should be used to guide sequencing decisions.