Adjuvant Therapy

Individuals with advanced squamous cell carcinoma who refused adjuvant therapy had worse oncologic outcomes, according to data published in JAMA Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery.

Delayed initiation of postoperative radiation therapy appeared associated with poorer outcomes among patients with oral cavity cancer, according to results of a cohort study.

CHICAGO — Healio spoke with Karen L. Reckamp, MD, on updated findings from the ADAURA trial presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

CHICAGO — Individuals with high-risk hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing curative-intent procedures did not experience clinically meaningful deterioration in quality of life or function after adjuvant therapy, phase 3 study results showed.

Circulating tumor DNA testing appeared to identify risk for recurrence among patients with stage II to stage IV colorectal cancer, according to study results published in Nature Medicine.

Women aged 69 years who underwent surgery for high-risk breast cancer received recommendations for adjuvant radiation therapy nearly two times more often than women a year older undergoing the same procedure, study results showed.

Sentinel lymph node biopsy was effective as a prognostic and staging tool in stage IIB/C melanoma, according to a study.

CHICAGO — A literature-based discovery machine learning algorithm suggested that antihistamines could be adjuvants to levodopa for Parkinson’s disease, a poster showed at the 2022 American Neurological Association annual meeting.

Adjuvant nivolumab extended RFS compared with placebo among patients with stage IIB/stage IIC melanoma, according to topline data released by the agent’s manufacturer.

Narjust Florez (Duma), MD, discusses results from two studies presented at World Conference on Lung Cancer — IMpower010 and NADIM-2