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A course of low-dose maintenance chemotherapy administered after standard-of-care intensive chemotherapy led to significant improvements in disease-free and overall survival in pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma.

Patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with frontline pembrolizuma lived 4 to 8 months longer than those who received standard of care chemotherapy.

Geoffrey R. Oxnard, MD, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, thoracic oncologist, medical oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the design and importance of the Circulating Cancer Genome Atlas (CCGA) study in an interview with OncLive during the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Luciano J. Costa, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, discusses phase II findings with the triplet regimen of venetoclax (Venclexta), carfilzomib (Kyprolis), and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. Costa shared this insight in an interview with OncLive during the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Personalized therapy based on tumor molecular profiling resulted in improved overall survival for patients with advanced, hard-to-treat cancers.

Initial results from the Circulating Cell-Free Genome Atlas study strongly suggest that cell-free DNA tests can be used with a high degree of specificity to detect signs of early stage lung cancer.

Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) yielded inconsistent results regarding the relationship between immune-related adverse events and objective response in multiple myeloma.

Microsatellite instability-high tumors are more likely to be associated with the presence of Lynch syndrome. Yet, 45% of patients with cancers not typically identified with Lynch syndrome actually qualify for germline genetic testing.

Treatment with taselisib in combination with fulvestrant provided a modest progression-free survival benefit of 2 months compared with fulvestrant alone in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, PIK3CA-mutant locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer

Carfilzomib (Kyprolis) administered once weekly at 70 mg/m2 with dexamethasone resulted in a prolonged PFS compared with the standard twice-weekly schedule in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The addition of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) to frontline carboplatin and nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) delayed the risk of progression or death by 29% compared with chemotherapy alone for patients with advanced squamous NSCLC.

The highly-selective RET inhibitor LOXO-292 demonstrated robust clinical activity across RET-altered solid tumors, including in patients with brain metastases and the RET V804M gatekeeper mutation.

Adding ibrutinib to rituximab lowered the risk of disease progression or death by 80% versus rituximab alone in patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

bb2121 had a median progression-free survival of 11.8 months and a median duration of response of 10.8 months for patients with relapsed/refractory heavily pretreated multiple myeloma.

Supriya Gupta Mohile, MD, MS, professor of medicine and surgery, James Wilmot Cancer Institute, director, Geriatric Oncology Clinic, University of Rochester, discusses pooled findings with a geriatric assessment for older patients with cancer in an interview with OncLive during the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Daniel J. George, MD, professor of medicine, surgery, member, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses the results of the prospective multicenter Abi Race trial, which compared outcomes of African-American and Caucasian patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) treated with abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) and prednisone.

Adding pomalidomide (Pomalyst) to bortezomib (Velcade) and low-dose dexamethasone reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 39% in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma with prior exposure to lenalidomide.

The addition of venetoclax to carfilzomib and dexamethasone demonstrated a 100% objective response rate with a very good partial response or better rate of 86% for patients with relapsed/refractory t(11;14) multiple myeloma.

A study that compared costs of treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer in Western Washington and the province of British Columbia in Canada found that prices were more than twice as high for the US patients than for their Canadian counterparts, with no significant difference in outcomes.

Evaluating health-related concerns as part of routine care for elderly patients with advanced cancer significantly improved doctor-patient communication and patient satisfaction.

Black men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer may experience greater benefits from chemotherapy and hormone-targeting treatment than their white counterparts.

Women with head and neck cancer may be severely undertreated and have higher death rates compared with their male counterparts.

Key opinion leaders spoke with OncLive ahead of the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting to share the top abstracts they believe could have the greatest impact on clinical practice and patient outcomes across lymphomas, gastrointestinal cancers, genitourinary cancers, and lung cancer.

Next-generation sequencing in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer can save Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services payers $1.4 million to $2.1 million.

Patients who used mobile and sensor technology to track their symptoms demonstrated reduced severity of their symptoms compared with patients who received standard care.

A total 1.9% of more than 7.6 million current and former heavy smokers in the United States underwent lung cancer screening in 2016, suggesting that it remains inadequate despite USPTF recommendations.

A shorter 6-month course of adjuvant trastuzumab (Herceptin) was found to be noninferior for disease-free survival compared with the standard 12-month schedule for patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer.

Adding nelarabine to escalating-dose methotrexate induced a 4-year disease-free survival rate of 91% in a cohort of pediatric and young adult patients with newly diagnosed T-cell cancers.

Both cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and acupuncture produced clinically meaningful improvements in insomnia severity scores for cancer survivors, but data from the randomized CHOICE clinical trial showed that CBT-I was more effective overall for reducing the severity of insomnia.

Discontinuation of tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment may be a possibility for children with chronic myeloid leukemia and, because they could be on-treatment for decades, treatment-free remission is even more important for pediatric patients than for adults.