Sarcoma News

Published results showed patients with a mental health diagnosis who undergo surgery for bone or soft tissue sarcoma may be at risk for longer hospital stays, readmission and surgical site infection.

CHICAGO — The addition of immunotherapy to radiation therapy and surgery significantly extended DFS for certain patients with soft tissue sarcoma, according to results of a randomized phase 2 trial.

Spouses of people with cancer exhibited significantly higher risk for attempted suicide and suicide death than those whose spouses had not been diagnosed with cancer, according to a nationwide cohort study in Denmark.

The FDA granted accelerated approval to afamitresgene autoleucel for certain adults with unresectable or metastatic synovial sarcoma.

Incidence rates for 17 different cancer types increased for successively younger generations in the United States during the past century.

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Individuals with therapy-refractory cancer who received waivers to participate in a clinical trial for off-label targeted therapies achieved similar clinical benefits as those who took part in the study without an exception.

CHICAGO — Time between therapy regimens can safely be offered to certain children with cancer to promote quality of life and explore goals of care without negatively affecting survival, according to data presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

A novel immunotherapy involving HER2-specific chimeric antigen receptor T cells produced clinically beneficial results for multiple individuals with advanced sarcomas, according to results of a phase 1 trial published in Nature Cancer.