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Soo Jin Seung, Daniel Moldaver, Shazia Hassan, Iqra Syed, MaryKate Shanahan, Geoffrey Liu
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April 16, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giovanna Cannas, Mohamed Elhamri, Xavier Thomas
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe monogenic hereditary hemoglobinopathy that is characterized by repeated clinical and biological manifestations able to generate stress erythopoiesis. A clonal hematopoiesis involving mainly variants of TP53, DNMT3A, ASXL1, and/or TET2 may be more prevalent in patients with SCD, suggesting that mutations in these genes may lead to an increased risk of leukemia. An increased prevalence of leukemia in patients with SCD has been confirmed by an increasing number of acute myeloid leukemia cases with myelodysplastic features reported in this patient population even in the absence of disease-modifying treatments...
March 29, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fred R Hirsch, Chul Kim
The identification of actionable biomarkers and development of targeted therapies have revolutionized the field of lung cancer treatment. In patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), biomarker testing can inform selection of effective targeted therapies as well as avoid therapies that are less likely to be effective in certain populations. A growing number of actionable targets, including those involving EGFR, ALK, ROS1, BRAF, MET, KRAS, NTRK, RET, HER2, and PD-L1, can be identified with biomarker testing...
March 27, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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EDITORIAL
Alfio Ferlito
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March 23, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kai Hübel
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is often considered a chronic disease with frequent relapses, shortening both response duration and survival after every relapse. Selecting the most appropriate therapy at the right time within the treatment timeline is key to optimize outcomes. The aim of this vodcast, featuring Dr. Kai Hübel, is to outline the severity of FL by referring to a patient case as well as highlight chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells as an effective therapy in relapsed/refractory (r/r) FL. The patient was in their early 50s, diagnosed with FL in the early 2010s and presented with a third relapse...
March 21, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mary K Nesline, Vivek Subbiah, Rebecca A Previs, Kyle C Strickland, Heidi Ko, Paul DePietro, Michael D Biorn, Maureen Cooper, Nini Wu, Jeffrey Conroy, Sarabjot Pabla, Shengle Zhang, Zachary D Wallen, Pratheesh Sathyan, Kamal Saini, Marcia Eisenberg, Brian Caveney, Eric A Severson, Shakti Ramkissoon
INTRODUCTION: Tissue-based broad molecular profiling of guideline-recommended biomarkers is advised for the therapeutic management of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, practice variation can affect whether all indicated biomarkers are tested. We aimed to evaluate the impact of common single-gene testing (SGT) on subsequent comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) test outcomes and results in NSCLC. METHODS: Oncologists who ordered SGT for guideline-recommended biomarkers in NSCLC patients were prospectively contacted (May-December 2022) and offered CGP (DNA and RNA sequencing), either following receipt of negative SGT findings, or instead of SGT for each patient...
March 19, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Soo Jin Seung, Daniel Moldaver, Shazia Hassan, Iqra Syed, MaryKate Shanahan, Geoffrey Liu
INTRODUCTION: Approximately half of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) present with early-stage disease at diagnosis. Real-world outcomes data are limited for this population but are of interest given recent and impending results from trials evaluating epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) and immunotherapies in neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and perioperative settings. METHODS: A retrospective, longitudinal, population-level study was conducted in patients diagnosed with resected stage I-III non-squamous NSCLC in Ontario, Canada, between April 2010 and March 2019...
March 14, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luca Bertolaccini, Andrea De Giglio, Eleonora Gariazzo, Giulio Metro
Management of stage II-III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been dramatically revolutionized by studies testing the addition of immunotherapy (IO) to chemotherapy in the pre- or perioperative setting. That is because the integration of chemoimmunotherapy (chemo-IO) with surgery has consistently shown a significant improvement in pathological complete response (path CR) rate, event-free survival, and, more recently, overall survival, versus preoperative chemotherapy alone. Particularly, resectable stage III NSCLCs represent a disease entity with a high risk of distant recurrence after radical surgery, for whom pre- or perioperative chemo-IO should be considered as the preferential treatment option...
March 14, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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Carlo Buonerba, Concetta Ingenito, Rossella Di Trolio, Francesca Cappuccio, Roberta Rubino, Arianna Piscosquito, Antonio Verde, Ferdinando Costabile, Michela Iuliucci, Felice Crocetto, Francesco Chiancone, Antonio Nacchia, Antonio Campitelli, Luca Scafuri, Roberto Sanseverino, Giuseppe Di Lorenzo
Bladder cancer is considered a global health concern characterized by significant morbidity and mortality rates. The complex relationship between diet and bladder cancer is examined, with a specific focus on the role of diet in risk, outcomes, and treatment efficacy. Attention is drawn to the burgeoning field of immunotherapy in bladder cancer treatment, and the possible influence of diet on its outcomes is explored. While evidence remains limited, prior studies in other cancer types have suggested a potential connection between diet and immunotherapy response...
February 28, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Scarlette Pacis, Anna Bolzani, Alexander Heuck, Klaus Gossens, Mathias Kruse, Björn Fritz, Ulf Maywald, Thomas Wilke, Christian Kunz
INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence, incidence, and treatment patterns (treatment regimens, switches, duration) for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in a real-world setting. METHODS: This was a retrospective German claims data analysis of patients with DLBCL diagnosed between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2020. The prevalence and cumulative incidence of DLBCL were found for 2019/2020. Line of treatment (LOT) and treatment setting from first DLBCL diagnosis to end of follow-up were described...
February 20, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Svenn Alexander Kommandantvold, Nikos Kotsopoulos, Isabel Monteiro, Ana Ladeiras, Andrew Hogan, Felipe Barboza Magalhães de Araujo, Mark P Connolly
INTRODUCTION: Cancer diagnosis influences the choices that patients make regarding current and future labor market activity. These choices have implications for governments based on resulting changes in taxes paid and benefits received. In this analysis we explore how human growth receptor 2 (HER2)-positive residual invasive breast cancer and different treatments influence government accounts excluding health costs. METHODS: HER2-positive early breast cancer (eBC) health states from a published disease model were used to establish likelihood of working and wage impact at different stages of disease...
February 16, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gerardo Hermida, Rodolfo Alvarez-Nuño, Jesús San Miguel-Izquierdo, Santiago González-Quijada, Tomás José González-López
BACKGROUND: Clarkson's disease is a very rare entity characterised by acute episodes of systemic oedema and severe hypotension associated with paraproteinaemia. Its classical treatment relies on methylxanthine combined with terbutaline. Although this prophylactic therapy reduces the mortality rate, relapses are frequent. Eighty percent of patients with Clarkson's disease present with monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS). The risk of progression to multiple myeloma is 1% per year...
February 2, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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REVIEW
Xavier Thomas
Recent advances have included insights into the clinical value of genomic abnormalities in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and consequently the development of numerous targeted therapeutic agents that have improved clinical outcome. In this setting, various clinical trials have recently explored novel therapeutic agents either used alone or in combination with intensive chemotherapy or low-intensity treatments. Among them, menin inhibitors could represent a novel group of targeted therapies in AML driven by rearrangement of the lysine methyltransferase 2A (KMT2A) gene, previously known as mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL), or by mutation of the nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1) gene...
February 1, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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REVIEW
Gere S diZerega, Holly A Maulhardt, Shelagh J Verco, Alyson M Marin, Michael J Baltezor, Samantha A Mauro, Marc A Iacobucci
This review summarizes development of large surface area microparticle paclitaxel (LSAM-PTX) and docetaxel (LSAM-DTX) for local treatment of primary carcinomas with emphasis on immunomodulation. Intratumoral (IT) delivery of LSAM-PTX and LSAM-DTX provides continuous, therapeutic drug levels for several weeks. Preclinical studies and clinical trials reported a reduction in tumor volume (TV) and immunomodulation in primary tumor and peripheral blood with increases in innate and adaptive immune cells and decreases in suppressor cells...
January 30, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Reyes Bernabé, Stephen V Liu, Amparo Sánchez-Gastaldo, Miriam Alonso García
Survival beyond 2 years is rare in patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) treated with chemotherapy alone. We describe a patient with ES-SCLC who was treated with carboplatin, etoposide and the programmed death-ligand 1 inhibitor atezolizumab in the IMpower133 study (ClinicalTrials.gov registration: NCT02763579) and who achieved exceptionally long-term survival. Treatment-naïve patients with ES-SCLC (n = 403) were included in the IMpower133 study, and the identified patient had been randomised to the investigational treatment arm, where patients received induction therapy with carboplatin and etoposide plus atezolizumab for four 21-day cycles, followed by ongoing maintenance therapy with atezolizumab...
January 27, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Umut Yılmaz, Selin Küçükyurt, Muhlis Cem Ar, Ahmet Emre Eşkazan
Thrombocytopenia has been reported more frequently with obinutuzumab in clinical trials where it was directly compared with rituximab. However, more significant than the frequency, a unique form of severe thrombocytopenia manifesting very early after the first obinutuzumab infusion has been published in case reports. To further explore this subject, we went through the records of our clinic to identify similar cases of obinutuzumab-induced acute thrombocytopenia (OIAT). Among 24 patients who received obinutuzumab outside of clinical trials, we recovered three cases with OIAT...
January 22, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giulio Metro, Eleonora Gariazzo, Silvia Costabile, Sara Baglivo, Fausto Roila, Francesca Colamartini, Barbara Palumbo, Pietro Chiarini, Stefania Gori, Antonio Conti, Luca Marcomigni, Guido Bellezza, Gianluigi Lunardi
In this work, we report on a clinically significant response of meningeal carcinomatosis to repotrectinib in a woman with a heavily pretreated ROS1-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that harbored the concomitant solvent front G2032R mutation. Meningeal carcinomatosis has a higher incidence in oncogene addicted NSCLC due to increased life expectancy, yet no report has ever documented the activity of repotrectinib in this context. In line with its activity, we documented the presence of the drug at potentially active concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid...
March 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Francesco Pepe, Gianluca Russo, Alessandro Venuta, Claudia Scimone, Mariantonia Nacchio, Pasquale Pisapia, Gaia Goteri, Francesca Barbisan, Caterina Chiappetta, Angelina Pernazza, Domenico Campagna, Marco Giordano, Giuseppe Perrone, Giovanna Sabarese, Annalisa Altimari, Dario de Biase, Giovanni Tallini, Daniele Calistri, Elisa Chiadini, Laura Capelli, Alfredo Santinelli, Anna Elisa Gulini, Elisa Pierpaoli, Manuela Badiali, Stefania Murru, Riccardo Murgia, Elena Guerini Rocco, Konstantinos Venetis, Nicola Fusco, Denise Morotti, Andrea Gianatti, Daniela Furlan, Giulio Rossi, Laura Melocchi, Maria Russo, Caterina De Luca, Lucia Palumbo, Saverio Simonelli, Antonella Maffè, Paola Francia di Celle, Tiziana Venesio, Maria Scatolini, Enrico Grosso, Sara Orecchia, Matteo Fassan, Mariangela Balistreri, Elisabetta Zulato, Daniela Reghellin, Elena Lazzari, Maria Santacatterina, Maria Liliana Piredda, Manuela Riccardi, Licia Laurino, Elena Roz, Domenico Longo, Daniela Petronilla Romeo, Carmine Fazzari, Andrea Moreno-Manuel, Giuseppe Diego Puglia, Andrey D Prjibelski, Daria Shafranskaya, Luisella Righi, Angela Listì, Domenico Vitale, Antonino Iaccarino, Umberto Malapelle, Giancarlo Troncone
INTRODUCTION: Biomarker testing is mandatory for the clinical management of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Myriads of technical platforms are now available for biomarker analysis with differences in terms of multiplexing capability, analytical sensitivity, and turnaround time (TAT). We evaluated the technical performance of the diagnostic workflows of 24 representative Italian institutions performing molecular tests on a series of artificial reference specimens built to mimic routine diagnostic samples...
January 11, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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Giulio Metro, Eleonora Gariazzo, Silvia Costabile, Sara Baglivo, Fausto Roila, Francesca Colamartini, Barbara Palumbo, Pietro Chiarini, Stefania Gori, Antonio Conti, Luca Marcomigni, Guido Bellezza, Gianluigi Lunardi
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 3, 2024: Oncology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Aieta Michele, Leo Silvana, Domenico Bilancia, Rossella Di Trolio, Michela Rosaria Iuliucci, Concetta Ingenito, Roberta Rubino, Arianna Piscosquito, Michele Caraglia, Marianna Donnarumma, Ferdinando Costabile, Raffaele Conca, Marco Pisino, Angelo Vaia, Luca Scafuri, Antonio Verde, Carlo Buonerba
INTRODUCTION: This retrospective study investigates the efficacy of cemiplimab, a monoclonal antibody targeting the PD-1 receptor, in treating squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the skin. METHODS: The study analyzes data from 50 patients with SCC, focusing on various clinical parameters, including patient demographics, tumor characteristics, treatment history, disease status at the beginning of therapy, and survival outcomes. RESULTS: Of the patients who received at least one cycle of cemiplimab, 42% showed a clinical response...
December 19, 2023: Oncology and Therapy
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