Supportive Care

Stacie Levine, MD, associate professor of Medicine, director, Geriatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses the benefits of palliative care for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

The FDA has approved telotristat ethyl (Xermelo) for use in combination with somatostatin analog (SSA) as a treatment for carcinoid syndrome diarrhea in patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors that cannot be adequately controlled by SSA therapy alone.

The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended approval of oral rolapitant (Varuby; Varubi in US) for the prevention of delayed nausea and vomiting associated with highly and moderately emetogenic cancer chemotherapy.

Prophylactic treatment with letermovir lowered the rates of cytomegalovirus infection and all-cause mortality compared with placebo for CMV-seropositive patients following an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant.

Francisco Marty, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the initial results of the Phase III trial evaluating letermovir for CMV after bone marrow transplant.