Men with benign prostatic hyperplasia undergoing long-term treatment with 5α-reductase inhibitors are significantly more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those receiving the α-blocker tamsulosin, population-based study data show.
Positron emission tomography using 68gallium-labeled ligands of the prostate-specific membrane antigen is accurate, reproducible, and safe in localizing biochemically recurrent prostate cancer, according to the results of a prospective trial.
The overall survival benefit of immunotherapy in elderly patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer is unclear according to two studies with contradictory results presented at the European Lung Cancer Congress 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Maintenance treatment with nivolumab, either given alone or alongside ipilimumab, does not prolong the overall survival of patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer, the CheckMate 451 investigators have found.
A third of cancer patients and survivors use complementary and alternative medicine, but they do not always disclose its use to their physicians, findings indicate.
Lorlatinib is more efficacious against non-small-cell lung cancer with versus without ALK resistance mutations in patients with disease progression after at least one second-generation ALK–tyrosine kinase inhibitor, suggests research.
The Multicentric Italian Lung Detection study findings indicate that extending lung cancer screening beyond 5 years boosts the survival benefits associated with early disease detection.
Research reported at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, shows that the incidence of prostate cancer and associated mortality has generally declined or remained steady in most of the countries with available data.
The NILE study has shown the noninferiority of cell-free DNA analysis, so-called liquid biopsy, to the standard of care for identifying targetable biomarkers in individuals with treatment-naïve metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer.
Supplementing androgen deprivation therapy with apalutamide improves metastasis-free survival in patients with the luminal and basal subtypes of nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, indicates an analysis of the randomized SPARTAN trial.
The multikinase inhibitor entrectinib elicits systemic and intracranial responses in patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors harboring NTRK fusions, including those with non-small-cell lung cancer, suggests a pooled analysis of three early-phase clinical trials.
Early findings point to the antitumor efficacy of the next-generation TRK inhibitor LOXO-195 in patients with NTRK fusion-positive cancers and NTRK resistance mutations acquired during treatment with first-generation agents.
Data from the phase Ib TATTON trial suggest that patients with EGFR-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer who have progressed on prior EGFR–tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy could benefit from adding either the MET inhibitor savolitinib or the MEK inhibitor selumetinib to osimertinib.
Single-agent pembrolizumab could be a promising option for extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer patients who have received at least two prior lines of therapy, suggests a pooled analysis of data from the multicohort KEYNOTE-028 and -158 trials.
Patients with high-grade neuroendocrine tumors may benefit from combined treatment with the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab and the anti-CTLA-4 agent ipilimumab, indicate phase II results.
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.
Among men initiating abiraterone acetate for advanced prostate cancer, the mortality risk may be higher for those with versus without pre-existing cardiovascular disease, suggests a real-world study presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.