All Oncology News

Lynn Acton, MS, CCC (SLP), discusses the significance of swallowing modalities for patients with head and neck cancer.

Debu Tripathy, MD, discusses current and emerging treatment strategies in the neoadjuvant setting for patients with HER2-postive breast cancer.

Siddhartha Devarakonda, MD, discusses the importance of testing for molecular markers in NSCLC, rare mutations, and what work lies ahead for the field of lung cancer.

Benjamin L. Judson, MD, highlights the importance of a multidisciplinary team and shares insight on some of the advancements related to surgery for patients with head and neck cancer.

Within the last 30 days of life, black and Latina women with ovarian cancer were less likely than white women to enroll in hospice care, according to results recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Bruno Sangro, MD, PhD, discusses the CheckMate-040 data and the future of immuno-oncology agents in HCC.

Jonathan Riess, MD, shares his insight on the game-changing efficacy of osimertinib in non-small cell lung cancer and its potential in combination, considering factors for choosing an EGFR TKI, and the burgeoning questions clinicians still have with the EGFR-mutant population.

The rollout of the Oncology Care Model from CMS has proven to be a challenging road, specifically involving technological challenges, as practices have scrambled to find seamless solutions to bridging old electronic health records with new "patches" designed for the OCM.

Bradley J. Monk, MD, shares his insight on the potential of immunotherapy in ovarian cancer, as well as what promise it might hold in other gynecologic malignancies.

The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab (Imfinzi) for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have disease progression during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy or who have disease progression within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment with platinum-containing chemotherapy.

With the increase of oral medications in oncology, adherence has become a significant issue since patients take the drugs home with them, and whether or not they stick to a regimen is hidden from the provider's view.

The European Commission has approved daratumumab for use in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone or bortezomib and dexamethasone for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma following at least 1 prior therapy.

Mary Jo Fidler, MD, discusses aiming to improve platinum-based doublet therapy in NSCLC, as well as the role of chemotherapy for non-driver adenocarcinoma in the future.

The FDA has granted brigatinib (Alunbrig) an accelerated approval as a treatment for patients with metastatic ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer who are resistant to prior crizotinib.

Leah Ralph discusses the ACCC’s position on the Afforadable Care Act repeal bill, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s Part B cost control proposals, and the possibility for comprehensive reform on the 340B Drug Discount Program.

Howard A. “Skip” Burris III, MD, detailed the benefits of performing next-generation sequencing tests on patients with cancer at the 2017 Community Oncology Conference.

Josh Cox, PharmD, moderated a panel discussion on legislative initiatives to combat the rising power of Pharmacy Benefit Managers at the 2017 Community Oncology Conference. In the talk, he touched on the difficulties of monitoring therapy for patients receiving their drugs from outside pharmacies as well as murkiness off drug pricing and cash flow within the PBM systems.

The FDA has approved midostaurin (Rydapt) for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed FLT3-positive acute myeloid leukemia in combination with standard cytarabine and daunorubicin induction and cytarabine consolidation. The drug has also been approved for the treatment of patients with advanced systemic mastocytosis (SM), including aggressive systemic mastocytosis, SM with associated hematological neoplasm, and mast cell leukemia.

Grzegorz S. Nowakowski, MD, discusses the ever-changing landscape of mantle cell lymphoma, the intriguing combinations being studied, and the promise that immunotherapy could hold.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to lorlatinib for use in patients with ALK-positive metastatic NSCLC who have previously received 1 or more ALK inhibitors, according to Pfizer, the company developing the next-generation ALK/ROS1 TKI.

Stephen M. Ansell, MD, PhD, discusses the potential of immunotherapy agents in lymphoma, ongoing clinical trials, and where this blends in with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.

The FDA has approved regorafenib (Stivarga) as a second-line treatment for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have previously received sorafenib (Nexavar).

Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center believe that including clinical genomic profiling into sarcoma management could result in more precise diagnosis and subclassification of the disease.

The European Union has granted a full approval to osimertinib (Tagrisso) for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic EGFR T790M mutation-positive non–small cell lung cancer, regardless of prior treatment with an EGFR TKI.

Thomas Flaig, MD, discusses the study of abiraterone acetate in metastatic prostate cancer after hormone induction failure and its impact on future research in this setting.

Dana Chase, MD, discusses obstacles to progress and her hope for the future in advanced gynecologic cancers.

The European Commission has approved oral rolapitant tablets for the treatment of delayed chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in adults.

Matthew Gubens, MD, discusses how far the field of NSCLC has come with molecular testing, the challenges still ahead, and what novel assays could be on the horizon.

Informed by new clinical evidence, ASCO has issued updated guidance on the use of second-line hormonal therapy for chemotherapy-naïve patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Amit Singal, MD, discusses the recent successes in the hepatocellular carcinoma treatment landscape and the challenges that still remain.