Oncology

Delays in anticancer drug therapy, radiation, and surgery were found to be associated with factors such as race and ethnicity, multimorbidity, COVID-19 vaccination, and severity of COVID-19, suggesting disparities in cancer care.

Case management programs or pharmacist-delivered high-touch care are critical components in medical specialty drug management.

IMscin001 analysis shows non-inferior levels of the cancer immunotherapy in the blood compared with intravenous infusion in individuals with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Findings in a new trial show that dietary supplementation of resistant starch has the potential to decrease people’s risk of certain types of gastrointestinal cancers.

Gamma-delta T-cells undergo a biochemical change that leads them to spur the growth of tumors that previously restricted.

Pharmacists have the potential to help optimize treatment and maximize supportive care management for targeted therapies.

Increasingly, practices will use and evaluate ePROs and DSMSTs in cancer care settings.

Over the next few years, undiagnosed breast cancer cases may add to the demand for more rigorous end-stage treatments and therapeutics.

Studies suggest novel immunotherapy may have efficacy as monotherapy and in combination with an anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor.

Health care systems have made great strides by examining the diversity and equity of staffing.

Investigators found that treatment of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in patients with HIV reduced anal cancer incidence by approximately 57%.

The findings of the phase 1b/2 CHRYSALIS-2 cohort will be presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2022 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Study shows that adult survivors of cancer had a 42% greater risk of CVD than people who did not have the disease.

The drug combination demonstrated a 64.5% confirmed objective response rate in individuals with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who are ineligible to receive cisplatin-based chemotherapy.

The FDA is evaluating the use of adagrasib (MRTX849) to treat patients with non-small cell lung cancer harboring a KRAS G12C mutation who have previously received at least 1 systemic therapy.

Pirtobrutinib is under investigation in clinical trials in patients with CLL/small lymphocytic lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

With the vast number of drugs that can induce photosensitivity, patients taking any of these medications should receive safety counseling, especially during the summer months.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan is an engineered HER2-directed antibody drug conjugate being jointly developed and commercialized by AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo.

The panel concludes with their thoughts on the future of the AML treatment landscape.

Drs McCoy and McCloskey discuss relapsed/refractory AML, including treatment goals and options.

Progression-free survival was longer with brentuximab vedotin and fewer patients with Hodgkin lymphoma in this group received subsequent therapy.

The results showed a 38.1% confirmed objective response rate among HER2-positive patients who received tucatinib in combination with trastuzumab.

Poziotinib is an irreversible pan HER2 inhibitor with activity against mutations of HER1, HER2, and HER4.

Approximately one-third of the individuals had an intracranial response among those with central nervous system metastases.

Dronabinol (Syndros) is a cannabinoid indicated in adults for the treatment of: anorexia associated with weight loss in patients with AIDS and nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy in patients who have failed to respond adequately to conventional antiemetic treatments.

Patients at highest risk of cancer recurrence, including people with lymph node-positive disease, saw the greatest reduction in the risk of recurrence or death with the pertuzumab-based regimen

Organizations such as the Appalachian Community Cancer Alliance are working to leverage technology and improve barriers to care.

Treatment's approval marks exciting new development for patients with ES-SCLC to prevent CIM.

This month, we spoke with Bob Luschen, PharmD, clinical coordinator for the pharmacy department at cancer Treatment Centers of America, Atlanta.

Cole McCoy, PharmD, considers if maintenance therapy is standard of care and what is involved with appropriate transitions upon discharge.