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Immune checkpoint inhibition will continue to attract interest at the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting, with a number of abstracts focused on this emerging class of agents

Scott Eggener, MD, associate professor of surgery, co-director, Prostate Cancer Program, director, Transitional and Outcomes Research, Section of Urology, The University of Chicago Medicine, discusses screening for prostate cancer.

Douglas M. Dahl, MD, FACS, discusses the long-term results of post-prostatectomy radiotherapy.

Enzalutamide significantly improved progression-free survival and PSA progression compared with bicalutamide in men with metastatic and non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Taking the vitamin B3 pill nicotinamide could reduce the risk of recurrence for those with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer.

Adding docetaxel to standard androgen deprivation therapy significantly improved overall survival in men with newly diagnosed, hormone-naïve advanced prostate cancer.

Treatment with elotuzumab in combination lenalidomide and dexamethasone prolonged remission by 4.5 months in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma when compared with lenalidomide and dexamethasone alone.

Treatment with the PARP inhibitor olaparib demonstrated a durable ORR of 87.5% in a biomarker-defined subgroup of men with pretreated sporadic mCRPC in a phase II multi-step adaptive trial.

Mark R. Middleton, MD, PhD, discusses the results of a phase I/IIa trial of IMCgp100, a bispecific immunotherapy, for the treatment of patients with melanoma.

The PD-L1 inhibitor MPDL3280A demonstrated a 19% objective response rate (ORR) with 75% of responses ongoing in pretreated patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

A prospective study of retrospectively analyzed blood samples of patients with nonresectable pancreatic cancer found that plasma KRAS mutational burden correlates with overall survival (OS).

Mark Erlander, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Trovagene, discusses a study looking at the association between ctDNA KRAS mutation levels and outcomes in patients with non-resectable pancreatic cancer.

Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) achieved an overall response rate (ORR) of 45.2% among a cohort of patients with high PD-L1-expressing non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the phase I KEYNOTE-001 trial.

Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) yielded significantly better outcomes compared with ipilimumab (Yervoy) in a randomized phase III trial of patients with advanced melanoma.

IMCgp100, an anti-CD3 antibody fragment fused to a gp100-specific T cell receptor, yielded long-lasting responses in patients with advanced melanoma.

In mid-December of 2014, the FDA approved the BRACAnalysis CDx diagnostic test to accompany the use of Lynparza (olaparib) in advanced ovarian cancer.

In a single-institution randomized prospective controlled trial of women with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer, 52.6% of patients in the PDS study arm had major complications with an MSKCC score of 3 or greater.

The angiogenesis inhibitor cediranib demonstrated acceptable activity and a tolerable safety profile as a monotherapy for patients with recurrent or persistent endometrial cancer.

Krishnansu S. Tewari, MD, FACOG, FACS, discusses a trial looking at the impact of CTCs on overall survival among patients treated with chemotherapy plus bevacizumab for advanced cervical cancer.

The addition fosbretabulin tromethamine to bevacizumab lowered the risk of progression by 31.5% but doubled the rate of hypertension compared with bevacizumab alone in pretreated patients with recurrent ovarian cancer enrolled in the phase II GOG186i study.

Circulating tumor cells have previously been reported to be prognostic in other solid tumors: can they become a prognostic biomarker in cervical cancer?

A triage algorithm may identify patients with presumed advanced ovarian cancer who represent preoperatively defined candidates for diagnostic laparoscopy.

Barbara Ann Goff, MD, discusses an analysis looking at the care of ovarian cancer.

Two newly reported studies are providing more insight into the efficacy and safety profile of the PARP inhibitor olaparib in ovarian cancer.

Bradley J. Monk, MD, FACOG, FACS, on bevacizumab in combination with the vascular disrupting agent fosbretabulin for the treatment of patients with recurrent ovarian, tubal, or peritoneal carcinoma.

The addition of bevacizumab to a doublet chemotherapy regimen extended OS by nearly 5 months compared with standard chemotherapy alone in women with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancers.

A 2:1 open-label phase II trial of the FANG vaccine achieved a marked delay in time to progression, in all 14 of 21 patients with stage III/IV ovarian cancer who participated. The other 7 patients did not receive the vaccine.

Robert L. Coleman, MD, FACOG, FACS, professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the results and key takeaways from GOG0213.

Although treatments and cure rates have increased significantly over the past 60 years for patients with HL, it is crucial that practitioners stay up-to-date on research that can affect outcomes for their patients with this uncommon form of cancer.

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with or without chemotherapy led to similar survival in men with advanced, metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, according to an updated analysis of a randomized trial.