Individuals with malignant pleural effusion undergoing talc pleurodesis have comparable outcomes regardless of how the talc is delivered, shows a phase 3 trial reported in JAMA.
Researchers have been unable to show that single-dose radiotherapy is not inferior to multifraction radiotherapy in terms of ambulatory status in patients with metastatic prostate, lung, or breast cancer and spinal cord or cauda equina compression.
A combination of biologic and genetic markers may be useful to predict which patients will experience toxicity following radiotherapy, suggest data presented at the ESTRO 38 conference in Milan, Italy.
The phase II SABR-COMET study has indicated that stereotactic ablative radiotherapy prolongs overall and progression-free survival versus palliative treatment in patients with up to five oligometastases.
Phase I results reported at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, point to the potential of a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy directed against mesothelin in patients with malignant pleural disease.
Use of the cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitor celecoxib during neoadjuvant taxane-based chemotherapy is associated with adverse survival outcomes in certain subgroups of patients with breast cancer, shows a post-hoc analysis of the REMAGUS02 trial.
Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes could serve as a prognostic marker in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer being treated with chemotherapy plus trastuzumab, indicates an analysis of the ShortHER trial comparing 9 weeks of trastuzumab with the standard 1-year regimen.
Adjuvant trastuzumab emtansine halves the risk of invasive disease recurrence or death versus trastuzumab in patients with residual invasive human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive early breast cancer, researchers report.
Carboplatin plus taxane neoadjuvant chemotherapy may be sufficient for women undergoing dual HER2 blockade for stage II–III HER2-positive breast cancer, findings from the TRAIN-2 study suggest.
Women who function better earlier in the day, so-called morning people, are less likely to develop breast cancer than those who consider themselves night owls, suggests a Mendelian randomization analysis.
In patients undergoing radical therapy for cancer, an 8-week run-in period of aspirin is acceptable and well tolerated, and could reduce the risk for nonadherence and participant attrition in adjuvant and prevention trials, say researchers.
Supplementing exemestane with the selective histone deacetylase inhibitor chidamide significantly prolongs the progression-free survival of women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, phase III trial findings indicate.
First-line treatment with the programmed cell death ligand 1 inhibitor atezolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel has achieved a significant progression-free survival advantage over taxane chemotherapy alone in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, research suggests.
Serum analysis suggests that within a year of beginning endocrine therapy after early breast cancer treatment, around one in six premenopausal women are no longer adherent to tamoxifen.
Long-term use of adjuvant endocrine therapy by women with a history of nonmetastatic breast cancer can significantly alter their risk for some types of cardiovascular disease, a meta-analysis shows.
Two independent studies of older patients receiving initial chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer or non-small-cell lung cancer have found that the risk for hospitalization or death may be predicted by the cytotoxic regimen used.
Lurbinectedin, a selective inhibitor of active transcription of protein-coding genes, has promising activity in patients with BRCA1/2-mutated metastatic breast cancer, phase II study data show.