Second primary malignancy risk after lymphoma chemotherapy and HSCT determined

Danish researchers have quantified the risk of second primary malignancy in patients with lymphoma who are treated with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation.
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Intra-arterial chemotherapy approach shows promise for advanced unilateral retinoblastoma

The likelihood of successful globe salvage for children with advanced unilateral retinoblastoma is higher with intra-arterial chemotherapy than with a conventional intravenous approach, randomised trial findings suggest.
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Base-edited CAR T-cell therapy shows promise for relapsed, refractory childhood ALL

Base-edited chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy is feasible for the treatment of relapsed or refractory childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, suggests research published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Intracerebral polio–rhinovirus immunotherapy feasible for paediatric malignant glioma

Intracerebral recombinant polio–rhinovirus immunotherapy is feasible in children and young people with heavily pretreated, high-grade malignant glioma, suggest phase 1b trial findings published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
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‘Multihit’ gastric cancer risk from H. pylori plus cancer-predisposing variants

The presence of Helicobacter pylori alongside pathogenic variants in cancer-predisposing genes combine to increase the risk for gastric cancer, report researchers in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Haplo-SCT plus dinutuximab beta ‘feasible’ for relapsed high-risk neuroblastoma

Children with relapsed, high-risk neuroblastoma may benefit from immunotherapy with dinutuximab beta after haploidentical stem-cell transplantation, investigators write in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Anthracycline heart failure risk quantified for breast cancer, lymphoma patients

Patients who receive an anthracycline during treatment for breast cancer or lymphoma are more than three times as likely to develop congestive heart failure than healthy individuals, indicates a case–control study published in JAMA Network Open.
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PRIME II ‘extremely reassuring’ on radiotherapy omission in older women with early breast cancer

The 10-year data from the PRIME II trial suggest that radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery can be omitted for women aged 65 years or older with low-risk, hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer.
iNTEGRATE fails to demonstrate significant cGVHD benefit for ibrutinib–prednisone regimen

Combining ibrutinib and prednisone for the treatment of new-onset chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation does not improve patient response compared with prednisone alone, show phase 3 trial findings published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Maintenance darolutamide shows promise in metastatic CRPC

Phase 2 data point to the potential of switch maintenance with darolutamide in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer that has not progressed after taxane therapy.