GYNECOLOGIC CANCERS

Evidence is mounting for multigene panel testing in women with suspected familial breast and/or ovarian cancer.

Robert L. Coleman, MD, professor, Ann Rife Cox Chair in Gynecology, Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, vice chair, Clinical Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the toxicities associated with rucaparib in patients with ovarian cancer.

Andrew Hendifar, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses PEGPH20 with nab-paclitaxel/gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer.

Manish A. Shah, MD, medical oncology, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, discusses the results of the METGastric study.

Philip Philip MD, PhD, professor of oncology at Karmanos Cancer Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, discusses current research on pancreatic cancer, as well as funding, awareness, and treatment options.

Rosemary Cress, MPH, PhD, and colleagues sought to identify long-term survival of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer, as well as the epidemiological characteristics associated with such survival.

Combination therapy with birinapant and carboplatin may be more effective than either therapy alone for treatment of high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSCs) with high levels of cellular inhibitor of apoptosis protein (cIAP) in their CA125-negative cells.

John Zalcberg, PhD, medical oncologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia, discusses a randomized phase II study of regorafenib in refractory advanced oesophago-gastric cancer (AOGC).

Almost 10 years following a study that proved intraperitoneal (IP), or abdominal, chemotherapy, along with intravenous (IV) therapy, may add 16 months or more to the lives of women with ovarian cancer, less than half of these patients at US hospitals receive this type of treatment

Updated findings from the KEYNOTE-012 trial have demonstrated promising antitumor activity with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in patients with metastatic gastric cancer.

Saeed Rafii, MD, PhD, MRCP, medical director, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the significant factors of clinical outcomes with olaparib in patients who have ovarian cancer.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has been selected as the site for one of two new Genome Characterization Centers (GCCs) funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institute of Health (HHSN261200800001E).

A team of scientists at Lawson Health Research Institute recently discovered that ovarian cancer spheroids activate a stress metabolism molecule, LKB1, which is crucial for the survival of ovarian cancer cells.

According to findings from a phase II study released by Amgen, monotherapy with blinatumomab (Blincyto) showed promising complete remission (CR) or CR with partial hematological recovery (CRh) rates in adult patients with relapsed or refractory Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) B cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

The immunotherapy DPX-Survivac has been granted orphan drug designation as treatment ovarian cancer, based on early-phase research showing a robust immune response with the therapy in combination with low-dose cyclophosphamide.

Specific areas in the US may be at health risk due to limited access of specialized gynecologic cancer care.

Research may hasten the effort to determine which strains of cancer will eventually become resistant to chemotherapy, paving the way for developing more effective targeted treatments.

The cancer drug, FY26, has demonstrated high potency and efficacy compared with cisplatin and other platinum-based chemotherapies

Jeffrey Infante, MD, director, Drug Development Program, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses a phase Ib, open-label expansion trial examining avelumab for the treatment of patients with previously treated, recurrent or refractory ovarian cancer.

Gynecologic Cancers