Although treatments and cure rates have increased significantly over the past 60 years for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, it is crucial that practitioners stay up-to-date on research that can affect outcomes for their patients with this uncommon form of cancer.
Standard chemotherapy remains part of the treatment paradigm for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia but its role is undergoing a major shift as significant advances are being made in novel therapies.
Shuo Ma, MD, PhD, assistant professor at Northwestern University in the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center discusses advances in non-chemotherapy regimens for patients with hematologic malignancies.
The treatment options for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma are expanding rapidly, notably through clinical trial evidence supporting a number of three-drug combination regimens, according to Sundar Jagannath, MD.
The indolent nature of follicular lymphoma and the range of treatment options currently available or in development may create complicated questions regarding how to best use and sequence these therapies.
Steven Treon, MD, PhD, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the game-changing discoveries in Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia that led to the approval of ibrutinib for treatment of the disease.
Sundar Jagannath, MD, director of the multiple myeloma program, professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology), Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses the recent approval of lenalidomide as a therapy for patients with multiple myeloma.
Michael Mauro, MD, hematologist and leader of the Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Program, Leukemia Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses treatment discontinuation for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.
Oncologists, hematologists, and other experts on hematologic malignancies will convene for the 19th Annual International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies, from February 20-21 in Miami, Florida, to provide insight into recent developments in the treatment of the diseases.
Abraham Chachoua, MD, associate director of cancer services at NYU Langone Medical Center, talks about targeted treatment for mutations in non-small cell lung cancer and adenocarcinoma.
Treatment with a multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor led to a small but statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced, previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer.
Results from a pair of phase II studies indicate that adding the immunomodulatory agent pomalidomide (Pomalyst) to multiple myeloma regimens improved outcomes for patients who have stopped responding to earlier treatments.
Clinicians who treat patients with multiple myeloma have witnessed a sea change in the past 15 years. Yet another revolution appears right around the corner.
Almost half of patients with borderline resectable or locally advanced pancreatic cancer had objective responses to treatment with an investigational chemokine receptor antagonist.
Lanreotide improved progression-free survival and resulted in more disease control compared with an observation strategy among patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
An analysis of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and elevated α-fetoprotein who received second-line ramucirumab showed a significant improvement in overall survival.
Expanded analysis of the NAPOLI-1 trial's per-protocol population continues to support the benefit of adding the nanoliposomal encapsulation of irinotecan MM-398 to 5-fluorouracil plus leucovorin for the treatment of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer who were previously treated with gemcitabine.
Two polymorphisms of a vasodilatory enzyme had significant associations with improved survival in liver cancer treated with an inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR), data from a retrospective study reported at the 2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium showed.
Andrea Wang-Gillam, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Oncology Division, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, discusses a combination treatment of PF-04136309 with FOLFIRINOX for borderline resectable and locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PC).
Manish A. Shah, MD, talks about a recent phase II study of mFOLFOX paired with the MET inhibitor onartuzumab for the treatment of metastatic, HER2-negative gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEC).
Changing the administration schedule for gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel from weekly to every other week significantly reduced side effects without impacting efficacy as a frontline treatment for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Pamela L. Kunz, MD, assistant professor, Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses the impact of the approval of lanreotide.
The CLARINET study led to the approval of lanreotide (Somatuline Depot) for the treatment of patients with advanced unresectable, metastatic gastrointestinal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs.)
Patients with advanced, MET-amplified gastroesophageal cancer had a high likelihood of response to an investigational MET inhibitor, results from a preliminary, dose-escalation trial suggested.
Among patients with metastatic gastric cancer treated with the anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody pembrolizumab, the agent showed promising antitumor activity and a manageable toxicity profile.
Chiara Cremolini, MD, discusses findings from the phase III TRIBE trial that combined FOLFOXIRI with bevacizumab as a frontline treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD of University Hospitals Gasthuisberg/Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, discusses the use of trastuzumab for the treatment of advanced HER2-positive gastric cancer.
Intensifying the chemotherapy component of a standard first-line bevacizumab-containing regimen reduced the risk of death by about 20% and doubled the 5-year overall survival (OS) rate among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).
A 'watch and wait' surveillance approach may allow certain patients with rectal cancer to achieve excellent outcomes without immediate surgery.
Patients with newly diagnosed metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who had higher levels of vitamin D in their blood lived a median of 8 months longer and experienced greater disease-free survival after their cancer treatment.
