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Patients with malignant gastric outlet obstruction who received surgical palliation maintained their quality of life and improved solid food intake for at least 3 months after surgery.

A novel combination regimen of ramucirumab plus pembrolizumab demonstrated modest activity in patients with previously treated gastric or gastroesophageal juncture cancer.

Ian Chau, MD, discusses interim safety and clinical activity results in patients with advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma from a multi-cohort phase I study of ramucirumab plus pembrolizumab.

A watch-and-wait approach is emerging as a potential treatment strategy for patients with rectal cancer, according to the results of real-world data from a large observational study .

Pathologic complete response (pCR) rates were improved by switching neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimens based on PET imaging after induction chemotherapy in patients with esophageal and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancers, according to findings from the phase II CALGB 80803 study.

According to findings from the phase III ONO-4538-12 trial, treatment with nivolumab (Opdivo) reduced the risk of death by 37% compared with placebo for patients with advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer following second or later-line chemotherapy.

Christophe Mariette, MD, PhD, surgical oncologist and professor of surgery, University Hospital of Lille in France, discusses a nationwide study investigating the impact of age and comorbidities on postoperative mortality after esophageal and gastric cancer surgery.

Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, institute physician, associate professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the CDK 4/6 inhibitor ribociclib and its clinical activity in patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer.

Patients with advanced hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, and visceral metastases obtained a significant benefit from treatment with the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib (LEE011) combined with letrozole, a subgroup analysis of the randomized MONALEESA-2 trial showed.

Luciano Mutti, PhD, professor in cancer research, University of Salford, Manchester, discusses the current and future role of immunotherapy in mesothelioma. 

Findings from an efficacy update of patients participating in a study in the CheckMate series revealed that first-line nivolumab (Opdivo) demonstrated activity in advanced non–small cell lung cancer, and the addition of ipilimumab (Yervoy) resulted in enhanced activity, specifically in prolonged progression-free survival and higher objective response rates.

Durvalumab treatment in the second-line setting or beyond demonstrated clinical benefit and led to durable responses in heavily pretreated patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

Determining the PD-L1 status of a patient’s tumor has become increasingly important for informing the clinical decision whether to offer certain immunotherapeutic agents, making standardization of the tests and antibodies used to determine the PD-L1 status necessary to provide accurate and consistent results.

BRCA1 methylation or silencing does not predict for a better response to carboplatin over docetaxel in women with advanced triple-negative or BRCA1/2 breast cancer, according to results from a pre-planned biological analysis of the phase III TNT trial.

Continuous low-dose ribociclib shows preliminary activity, and has an acceptable safety profile as an alternative to intermittent ribociclib dosing when combined with fulvestrant in the treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, <em>HER2</em>-negative advanced breast cancer.

The combination of pembrolizumab and eribulin demonstrated a 33.3% objective response rate for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who received 0 to 2 prior lines of therapy.

Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) continued to show a consistent durable benefit with an additional year of follow-up for heavily pretreated patients with recurrent PD-L1-positive metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Women who are experiencing symptoms of menopause are less likely to adhere to treatment, according to findings presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

The artificial intelligence computer program Watson for Oncology (WFO) achieved a high degree of concordance with tumor board recommendations in a double-blinded validation study in Bengaluru, India, according to results presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS).

Maki Tanioka, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses an integrated analysis of multidimensional genomic data on the phase III CALGB 40601 (Alliance) study, which explored neoadjuvant weekly paclitaxel and trastuzumab (Herceptin) with or without lapatinib for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer,

Recent promising findings with the neoadjuvant combination of the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib with anastrozole could lead to a novel therapeutic option for patients with hormone receptor (HR)&ndash;positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer.

A small clinical trial demonstrated encouraging clinical activity in triple-negative breast cancer treated with a MEK inhibitor and a taxane.

Hyo Sook Han, MD, medical oncologist, Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses results of the phase II BROCADE trial, which evaluated the combination of the PARP inhibitor veliparib with carboplatin/paclitaxel in patients with <em>BRCA</em>-positive breast cancer.

William J. Gradishar, MD, deputy director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses the takeaways from the TransATAC trial, which was a comprehensive comparison of prognostic signatures in breast cancer.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, professor of Medicine and director of the Breast Oncology Clinical Trials Program at the University of California, San Francisco, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses what sets abemaciclib apart from other CDK 4/6 inhibitors in the field of hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer.

Aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy may pose a risk of cardiovascular disease to postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer, raising the possibility of a long-term complication in an era of growing survivorship when patients are treated with estrogen-targeting drugs for years.

Findings from the first prospective, randomized clinical trial to evaluate modern scalp-cooling demonstrate that the system is safe and effective in reducing hair loss in women being treated with chemotherapy for their breast cancer, especially for those on taxane-based regimens.

An attempt to strengthen neoadjuvant treatment of patients with locally advanced HR-positive and HER2-positive breast cancer by adding estrogen deprivation therapy to a standard regimen failed to significantly improve response rates.

A biomarker analysis of participants in a phase II breast cancer trial demonstrated potential for identifying tumor markers to predict susceptibility to specific therapies.

Prophylactic treatment with the combination of loperamide and budesonide reduced the rate of grade &ge;3 diarrhea associated with neratinib to 15% compared with 39.9% observed in the ExteNET trial. The rate of all-grade diarrhea was 65% with the prophylactic regimen versus 95.4% in ExteNET, according to findings from the phase II CONTROL trial.