Vol. 21/No. 18 | Oncology Live®

September 24, 2020

Implementing population-based BRCA1/2 testing is not only cost-effective in high- and upper middle–income countries but could also prevent tens of thousands of breast and ovarian cancer cases compared with the current clinical strategy, which recommends testing only for high-risk women.

September 23, 2020

Findings from clinical trials evaluating HER2-directed and immunotherapeutic approaches for treating patients with gastric cancer are among recent data attracting interest from experts in the gastrointestinal cancer field.

September 23, 2020

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic is highlighting how independent community oncology practices are the best source for patients to receive care close to home, while also presenting several challenges for practices and their patients.

September 22, 2020

An explosion of research in the field led to the approval of pemigatinib in April 2020 for patients with unresectable, previously treated advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement.

September 17, 2020

David P. Steensma, MD, discusses the importance of evaluating eprenetapopt in the pivotal phase 3 study, the agent’s potential role in the MDS landscape, and some of the questions that remain in this setting.

September 16, 2020

A panel of breast cancer experts discuss a variety of new and emerging agents to treat patients with advanced or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer with disease progression following treatment with at least 1 anti-HER2 therapy.

September 15, 2020

Kami J. Maddocks, MD, discusses the tolerability and promise of tafasitamab in combination with lenalidomide in relapsed or refractory DLBCL.

September 15, 2020

TIGIT, an inhibitory immune checkpoint that plays a central role in limiting antitumor responses, is attracting robust interest in the research community as a novel target for combination therapies across a range of cancer types, particularly solid tumors.

September 14, 2020

Nearly 15 years have passed since pathologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center conducted gene expression analyses on breast cancer primary tumors and described a potential role for a novel target, which quickly became a major research focus for their colleague Tiffany A. Traina, MD.

September 12, 2020

Because it is likely that COVID-19 will be around for a considerable period of time, it is hoped that all involved in the clinical research establishment can view this experience as a process that needs substantial improvement.