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Standard-dose RT with concurrent chemo found superior for unresectable NSCLC
An update of the RTOG 0617 trial, now at a median follow-up of 5.1 years, finds that overall survival is better with standard-dose RT versus high-...
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Fertility-sparing surgery is safe for most with epithelial ovarian cancer
Except among women with advanced serous tumors, surgery preserving the unaffected ovary and uterus was not associated with a significantly...
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Sequential CRT, immunotherapy nets high PFS in node-positive cervical cancer
More than four in five patients were alive and free of disease progression a year after receiving chemoradiotherapy followed by ipilimumab, and...
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Rituximab maintenance has a durable benefit in follicular lymphoma
At a median of 9 years of follow-up, progression-free survival was extended versus observation but there was no difference in overall survival.
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Gene signature may help guide initial CLL treatment choice
A 17-gene expression signature may help predict which patients with IGHV-unmutated disease will benefit from frontline FCR chemoimmunotherapy or...
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Use and costs of CRC end-of-life care differ sharply between U.S., Canada
On average, mean total costs of health care resources in the last month of life were 25% higher for SEER-Medicare patients compared with Ontario...
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Sunitinib for mRCC: Real-world experience differs somewhat
A cohort study finds that patients treated with sunitinib as first-line therapy in routine clinical practice had poorer overall survival but also...
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Training, alerts up the odds of discussions about genomic testing costs
A variety of physician and practice factors – some of them modifiable – increased the likelihood that oncologists discussed these often expensive...
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Ezrin negativity predicts poor prognosis in clear cell RCC
Lack of this cytoskeleton linker protein was associated with adverse prognostic factors and independently predicted poorer disease-specific...
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Stereotactic body radiation therapy safe, effective for moderately central NSCLC
A stereotactic body radiation therapy regimen of 50 Gy given in five fractions had limited toxicity and yielded good survival in a cohort of...
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Lazertinib has good showing in EGFR-mutated advanced NSCLC
Data for 127 patients treated at various doses showed that 54% had a response to the new third-generation EGFR TKI. Moreover, 44% of those with...
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Immunotherapy enables nephrectomy with good outcomes in advanced RCC
Patients able to undergo nephrectomy after receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors had favorable surgical outcomes and pathologic responses in the...
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Nivolumab-ipilimumab nets long-term survival in advanced melanoma
An update of CheckMate 067 finds that with combination nivolumab and ipilimumab therapy, 52% of patients were alive at 5 years, and the large...
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Cancer burden: Multiple metrics needed to clarify the big picture
A cancer’s so-called epidemiologic signature – the composite pattern of incidence, mortality, and metastatic incidence – helps sort out the...
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AF risk is elevated after early-stage breast cancer diagnosis
The rate of AF was elevated in the first year post diagnosis and after 5 years post diagnosis, with greater elevation for women who received...