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Virginia Commonwealth University’s latest research introduces a novel, urine-based test for ovarian cancer, utilizing nanotechnology to identify specific peptides, offering a new avenue for early detection and enhancing patient care strategies.

The recent study on bevacizumab’s effect on ovarian cancer progression provides valuable insights into its initial benefits and subsequent risks.

Join historian Susan W. Wade, Ph.D., in exploring her personal experience with vulvar cancer and participation in an experimental clinical trial. Wade’s firsthand account offers not only medical insights but a deeper understanding of the patient’s psychological journey and a reflection on the future of oncology treatments.

Selinexor has demonstrated an extraordinary extension in progression-free survival in patients with wild-type TP53 advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer, according to the recent findings from the SIENDO study.

Dr. Jyoti Mayadev, a professor of Radiation Medicine at University of California San Diego, discussed the treatment of patients with 1B3 cervical cancer at the Society of Gynecological Oncology’s Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer. The discussion centered around whether to treat patients with primary chemoradiation and brachytherapy or radical surgery. Dr. Mayadev recommends a multidisciplinary approach, but notes that level 1 evidence data from Landoni et al. in 1997 showed no difference in progression-free survivals or overall survivals between radiation therapy and radical hysterectomy in patients with bulky disease, 1B3, and no lymph node disease. Dr. Mayadev discusses the benefits of chemoradiation, including potential toxicity reduction if a patient needs adjuvant therapy after surgery. She also notes that with technologically advanced radiation and brachytherapy, long-term toxicities can be minimized, including genitourinary toxicities at 6-8%, vaginal toxicities at 5%, and fistula at less than 2%. Dr. Mayadev believes that adaptive radiation therapy may further decrease toxicities and increase cure rates for patients with 1B3 cervical cancer. There are ongoing trials for novel therapeutics and adaptive radiation therapy, such as the ARTIA Cervical Trial, which aims to decrease toxicities and collect patient reported outcomes.

In this on-demand webinar, a trio of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center experts share their wisdom on ovarian, cervical, and endometrial cancers. Dr. Emese Zsiros, Chair of Gynecologic Oncology, hosts the event with presenters Drs. Karen McLean and Katherine LaVinge Mager, Associate Professor of Oncology and Assistant Professor of Oncology in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology, respectively.