Latest Conference Articles

March 5th 2022, 5:20pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

The combination of adjuvant abemaciclib and endocrine therapy led to a clinically meaningful benefit at 3 years in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer.

March 5th 2022, 1:39pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

Clinicians with patients who are experiencing cardiotoxicity as a result of their breast cancer treatment should address the cardiotoxicity using a team-oriented approach based on guideline-directed therapies.

March 5th 2022, 11:00am

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

Elacestrant was found to result in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival over standard-of-care treatment in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer who previously received CDK4/6 inhibitors.

March 4th 2022, 10:24pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

CDK4/6 inhibitors in the metastatic setting have demonstrated clinical benefit in the hormone receptor–positive breast cancer population, leading to curiosity of its activity in early-stage patients and setting the stage for a handful of informative clinical trials.

March 4th 2022, 7:40pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

Immunotherapy treatment for early-stage triple-negative breast cancer is enjoying a boom period, though there are still unanswered questions, particularly around the optimal chemotherapy backbone and patient selection.

March 4th 2022, 6:50pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

Getting a start in clinical research can appear daunting, said Anees Chagpar, MD, MBA, MPH, FACS, FRCS(C). Fortunately, all it really takes is a question and a bit of drive.

March 4th 2022, 5:00pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

Pat W. Whitworth, MD, explains how data from past studies are informing the use of circulating tumor DNA and talks about the potential of these assays to guide treatment decisions in patients with breast cancer.

March 4th 2022, 4:00pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

Charles L. Loprinzi, MD, discusses some of the most common treatment-related toxicities in breast cancer and provided insight into various current and investigational approaches available to patients.

March 4th 2022, 3:28pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

Patients with newly diagnosed metastatic triple-negative breast cancer should undergo PD-L1 expression testing on tumors to determine whether they are candidates for frontline chemoimmunotherapy.

March 4th 2022, 2:30pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

Treatment with eribulin elicited an estimated 2-year overall survival rate of 53.6% for patients with metastatic breast cancer previously treated with atezolizumab or sacituzumab govitecan, according to real-world findings.

March 3rd 2022, 3:44pm

PER® Miami Breast Cancer Conference

The 39th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference® makes its return to the Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Florida with a twist on both the agenda and the setting.

February 28th 2022, 9:40pm

PER® Congress on Hematologic Malignancies (Winter Hematology®)

Targeted therapies, specifically those agents directed at mutated proteins and aberrant protein-to-protein interactions, have been shown to improve survival among patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia.

February 28th 2022, 9:11pm

PER® Congress on Hematologic Malignancies (Winter Hematology®)

Although checkpoint inhibitors and bispecific antibodies have come to represent clinical oncology’s fourth leg of treatment—immunotherapy—there remains much to explore within lymphoma.

February 28th 2022, 3:00pm

PER® Congress on Hematologic Malignancies (Winter Hematology®)

The emergence of novel agents, including CAR T-cell therapies and antibody-drug conjugates, plus existing options such as chemoimmunotherapy and bone-marrow transplant, have combined to raise questions about the sequencing of these treatments in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

February 20th 2022, 5:40pm

Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU)

The utilization of mitotane in the adjuvant setting did not produce significant benefit for patients with adrenocortical carcinoma at low or intermediate risk of recurrence.

February 20th 2022, 3:44pm

Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU)

Adjuvant pembrolizumab continued to demonstrate improved disease-free survival placebo in patients with renal cell carcinoma who are at high risk of recurrence.

February 19th 2022, 9:12pm

Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU)

At a nearly 3-year median follow-up, health-related quality-of-life scores were improved or maintained over time among patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who received with nivolumab plus cabozantinib compared with those who received sunitinib.

February 19th 2022, 8:38pm

Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU)

The combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab produced similar efficacy and safety profiles in an East Asian subgroup of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

February 19th 2022, 8:18pm

Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU)

Efficacy rates generated by the combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) vary based on certain immune-cell related parameters in patients with advanced or metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

February 19th 2022, 8:10pm

Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU)

The combination of nivolumab plus cabozantinib elicited a continued survival benefit compared with sunitinib in patients with untreated clear cell metastatic or advanced renal cell carcinoma.