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The conclusion from the study presented in the Journal of Clinical Oncology: “While VTC added to five-drug interval compressed chemotherapy did not improve survival, these outcomes represent the best survival estimates to date for patients with previously untreated nonmetastatic Ewing sarcoma.”

Directly from this Journal of Clinical Oncology Original Report: “Among men randomly assigned to receive ADT + RT + docetaxel versus ADT + RT, significantly less RT-induced cancers were observed. The treatment effect of adding docetaxel to ADT + RT on overall survival in men with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) < 4 ng/mL was driven by the absence of PC death, providing evidence to support a distinct biology in low PSA-producing, unfavorable-risk PC that is docetaxel-sensitive.”

Second-line therapy with pembrolizumab plus gemcitabine, vinorelbine, and liposomal doxorubicin (pembro-GVD) is a highly effective and well-tolerated regimen that can efficiently bridge patients with rel/ref cHL to high-dose therapy and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (HDT/AHCT).

The encouraging results of the phase 3 ORIENT-11 trial, which included 397 patients with previously untreated, locally advanced metastatic non-squamous NSCLC without sensitizing EGFR or ALK aberrations, were published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

The case reported is based on a 53-year-old woman who presented to her gastroenterologist with symptoms of bowel obstruction and right upper quadrant pain. Based on her age and excellent performance status, aggressive treatment with a triplet chemotherapy regimen of oxaliplatin, irinotecan, 5-fluorouracil, and leucovorin (FOLFOXIRI) in combination with the anti–vascular endothelial growth factor receptor antibody bevacizumab was begun.

A late-breaking abstract from the ASH Annual Meeting & Exhibition. In this double-blind, placebo-controlled, international study of 879 patients (median age: 65 (range 19–80) years; IPI 3–5 (62%)), the pola-R-CHP combination demonstrated a 27% reduction in the relative risk of disease progression, relapse, or death compared with R-CHOP, with a similar safety profile in the first-line treatment of patients with DLBCL.