The American Cancer Society’s annual report approximates the new cancer diagnoses and deaths expected in 2021 and identifies impactful patterns in oncology care.
Sean McGowan, senior director of Biosimilars at AmerisourceBergen, and Brian Ansay, senior vice president of Sales and Corporate Services at ION Solutions, review 2020 biosimilar trends in oncology and forecast what is ahead in 2021.
Researchers have identified actionable alterations in nearly 38% of patients with cancer, and almost 18% of patients were assigned to treatments based on their molecular profiling results.
Compared with patients who undergo surgery alone for abdominal or pelvic cancers, those who receive radiation and chemotherapy are at elevated risk for secondary sarcomas.
Risks of moving clinical trials online include missing key information about the patient experience — and higher dropout rates could also impair the overall quality of trials.
Treatment of some types of rare sarcomas with pembrolizumab resulted in durable clinical benefit for some patients. Partial response rates were highest in alveolar soft-part sarcoma.
The social media platform can be useful as an education tool for oncologists to stay up to date on new research in oncology — but physicians still need to be mindful of the information sources.
Irinotecan and temozolomide led to inferior clinical outcomes for patients with recurrent and primary refractory Ewing sarcoma, a multiarm trial found.
Patients with advanced sarcoma who developed immune-related adverse events after immune checkpoint blockade were more likely to have a clinical benefit.
Binimetinib plus imatinib in the frontline setting appeared to improve outcomes for patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor, warranting further study.