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CHICAGO—Women and men were treated differently for the same tumor stages of head and neck cancer (HNC) and had different outcomes in a study with patients surveyed over a fifteen-year period in Santa Clara, California. The findings—using the generalized competing event (GCE) assessment model that balanced the risk of cancer death against non-cancer death—has prompted […]

CHICAGO, IL—Patients whose non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) expressed more than one per cent of the programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) tumor proportion score (TPS) lived longer when treated with the anti programmed death 1 (PD-1) antibody pembrolizumab than a control group of patients receiving platinum-based chemotherapy in the open-label, phase three KEYNOTE-042 study reported at […]

CHICAGO—Prophylactic contralateral (CLT) breast radiotherapy was associated with significantly fewer and delayed cases of breast cancer in women having standard therapy for their ipsilateral BRCA mutation-associated breast cancers in a study from Israel reported in a poster session at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2018 annual meeting. https://meetinglibrary.asco.org/record/161629/abstract (Phase II national clinical trial of […]

BARCELONA—Handgrip strength (HGS) was found to be an independent quantitative marker for overall survival among patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) being treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in a study discussed at the 2018 European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO 37) conference. ABSTRACT: PV-0041 Hand grip strength: independent prognostic selection test […]

BARCELONA—Accelerated partial breast irradiation (ABPI) brachytherapy completed in a single week gave at least as good efficacy and safety as other radiotherapy protocols after breast-conserving therapy (BCS) for patients with low-risk breast cancer and brought advantages in terms of symptoms and convenience in a randomized phase three trial(conducted at 16 European medical centers)reported at the […]

BARCELONA—Image-guided adaptive brachytherapy (IGABT) for patients with cervical cancer did not increase risk for ureteral stricture (a rare but feared complication of pelvic radiotherapy) in European research reported at the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO 37) 2018 conference. (OC-0072 Risk factors for ureteral stricture after IGABT in cervical cancer: results from the EMBRACE […]

BARCELONA—It is essential to conduct a comprehensive geriatric assessment of patients over 74 with lung cancer before deciding to escalate treatment dose by switching to concurrent chemo-radiotherapy in an attempt to improve outcomes. This was the conclusion of a phase 2 study reported at the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO 37) conference. (PV-0039 […]

BARCELONA—The accuracy of radiation targeting using image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) was significantly associated with overall survival in a study of a large cohort of patients treated with IGRT for their lung and esophageal cancers. reported at the 2018 European Society For Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 37) annual conference (ABSTRACT OC-0322, “Residual setup errors after IGRT are […]

BARCELONA—Women who develop breast symptoms—especially lumps—between regular mammography screening examinations are up to four times more likely to have a diagnosis of breast cancer soon after than women who do not have symptoms according to findings of a massive study of routine mammography from Finland reported at the 2018 European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC 11). […]