Dylann Cohn-Emery

The American Oncology Network, LLC highlights its achievements while celebrating its first year of helping community oncologists.

Patients with non&ndash;small cell lung cancer on radiotherapy had a worse overall survival when a hurricane disaster was declared for their hospital than patients who did not experience a declaration, according to a study published in<em> JAMA</em>.

The use of more aggressive frontline chemotherapy regimens plus biologics for the treatment of patients with meta-static colorectal cancer may be warranted based on mutational status, tumor sidedness, treatment goals, prognosis, and patient disposition, according to a presentation by Axel Grothey, MD, at the 14th Annual New Orleans Summer Cancer Meeting, held July 19 to 21, 2019, in Louisiana.

In a recent review of the 5-year outcomes from the COMBI-d and COMBI-v trials published in the&nbsp;New England Journal of Medicine, investigators saw long-term benefit with the use of dabrafenib plus trametinib as first-line treatment in about one-third of patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma and&nbsp;BRAF V600E or V600K mutations.

Florida Cancer Specialists &amp; Research Institute has announced an oncology-focused initiative with Cigna as a part of the Cigna Collaborative Care. The Cigna Oncology Focus program's main goal is to provide quality care and contain costs for people with cancer. It also uses incentives to encourage healthcare professionals to improve affordability, as well as patients health and overall experience.

The American Society of Hematology has chosen Philip Greenberg, MD, to receive the 2019 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize for his work in immunotherapy.

Jorge Cortes, MD Cortes discussed frontline treatment options for patients with CML with <em>Targeted Oncology</em> ahead of a debate on optimal frontline regimens for chronic myeloid leukemia at the <em>3rd Annual</em> Live Medical Crossfire: Hematologic Malignancies, hosted by Physicians&rsquo; Education Resource.<br /> &nbsp;

The American Oncology Network, LLC will be acquiring a new practice from Ohio in August.

Carey K. Anders, MD, spoke with <em>Targeted Oncology</em> about treatment options emerging to improve outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer and secondary brain metastases.

Laura Dawson, MD, FRCPC, FASTRO, has been selected as the president-elect of the American Society for Radiation Oncology and will begin her term at the society&rsquo;s 61st Annual Meeting, which is being held in Chicago, Illinois on September 15-18.