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GLP-1 receptor agonist use was associated with a 41% lower overall risk of obesity-related cancers in a retrospective cohort of more than 229,000 non-diabetic patients with obesity, with the largest risk reductions observed in endometrial, pancreatic, colorectal, and multiple myeloma.

Long-term follow-up from the phase 3 NRG-GY018 trial showed sustained overall survival benefit for pembrolizumab plus carboplatin-paclitaxel in dMMR endometrial cancer at 48 months, while the pMMR OS advantage did not reach statistical significance despite a 9-month median improvement.

Perioperative apalutamide plus ADT, six months before and after radical prostatectomy, achieved a ninefold improvement in major pathologic response and a 20% reduction in metastasis-free survival events versus placebo plus ADT in patients with high-risk localized or locally advanced prostate cancer in a phase 3 trial.

Talazoparib plus enzalutamide reduced the risk of radiographic progression or death by 52% versus enzalutamide alone in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer harboring homologous recombination repair gene alterations, with a 3-year rPFS rate of 77% versus 56% in a 599-patient phase 3 trial.

The American Cancer Society updated its colorectal cancer screening guidelines to include two new multitarget stool tests and a blood-based option, while maintaining colonoscopy as the gold standard and the age-45 screening initiation recommendation for average-risk adults.

Tafasitamab plus lenalidomide added to R-CHOP reduced the risk of progression or death by 25% compared with R-CHOP alone in previously untreated high-risk DLBCL and HGBL in a 899-patient phase 3 trial, with overall survival data not yet mature.