Cancer

More than 2 years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, new treatments, vaccines and preventive measures have improved safety and disease outcomes for patients with cancer, according to a speaker at Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium.

High levels of racial and economic segregation appeared associated with higher cancer mortality rates across more than 3,000 U.S. counties, according to results of an ecological study.

Certain factors may help predict which patients treated for head and neck cancer will require long-term gastrostomy tube use, according to study results.

An understanding of patients’ cultural and historical health care beliefs can promote equity in cancer survivorship, reduce financial costs and even save lives, according to a speaker at Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium.

Proton therapy for partial breast irradiation provided cancer control in 100% of cases of early-stage ER-positive breast cancer, according to 3-year results from a prospective, multicenter phase 2 trial.

PHILADELPHIA — High risk factors for cancer in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy include dermatomyositis, anti-TIF1-gamma positivity, anti-NXP2 positivity and age 40 or older at onset, said a speaker here.

A single dose of lifileucel conferred an objective response in nearly one-third of patients with advanced unresectable or metastatic melanoma, results from the phase 2 C-144-01 trial showed.

Physical activity and nutritional diets are among the key prevention and treatment strategies recommended by the Obesity Medicine Association for obesity-related cancer and fatty liver.

Terry Hyslop, PhD, has been named co-leader of the cancer risk and control program at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.

Yuan Yuan, MD, PhD, joined Cedars-Sinai Cancer as director of breast oncology.