In patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who are BRCA1/2 mutation carriers, pathologic complete response (pCR) is not a surrogate for relapse-free survival, in contrast to those with non-BRCA mutations.
Immediately integrating cancer treatment and palliative care might improve survival at 1 year in patients with advanced cancers, suggest findings from the ENABLE III randomized controlled trial, presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Family members caring for patients with advanced cancer benefit from early initiation of phone-based training and support.
In patients with breast cancer who had previously received monthly intravenous bisphosphonate therapy for bone metastases for a year or longer, maintenance zoledronic acid administered every 12 weeks was noninferior to every 4 weeks.
Reduced-dose intensity-modulated radiotherapy after complete clinical responses to induction chemotherapy for operable stage III/IVA, human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive head and neck cancer appears to be safe and might improve patients’ quality of life.
Adult and young adult cancer survivors face cognitive and sexual late effects from cancer and its treatment, according to data compiled from an online cancer survivorship care planning tool presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) do not benefit from the addition of neoadjuvant gemcitabine, carboplatin, and paclitaxel (GCP) to cisplatin chemoradiation.
Upfront standard androgen deprivation therapy plus six cycles of docetaxel significantly improves overall survival compared with ADT alone in men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.
Baseline hypertension and BMI can affect worsening hypertension among patients administered vascular endothelial growth factor signaling pathway inhibitors, according to research presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting.
For the approximately 60,000 men in the United States with prostate cancer who are asymptomatic after radical primary treatment yet have a PSA relapse, it’s safe to postpone androgen deprivation therapy, a study presented at the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting concluded.
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