Hayley Virgil is a senior editor with CancerNetwork. When she isn't traveling to conferences and championing health equity in the oncology space, she can be found hiking, foraging wild plants, gardening, sewing ballgowns, practicing embroidery, or playing video games.
Zandelisib/Zanubrutinib Combination in R/R CLL and B-Cell Malignancies Shows Clinical Benefit
June 12th 2021Phase 1 data presented at 2021 EHA indicate that a high rate of response was associated with zandelisib plus zanubrutinib therapy in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Pooled Analysis Supports Benefit/Risk Profile of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Various Advanced Cancers
April 15th 2021The majority of independently adjudicated interstitial lung disease cases associated with the antibody-drug conjugate were low grade and occurred within the first 12 months of treatment.
Adjuvant Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab Combo For Late-Stage Melanoma Did Not Meet RFS End Point
April 11th 2021The combination adjuvant treatment of ipilimumab plus nivolumab did not meet the dual primary endpoints of the phase 3 CheckMate-915 trial, failing to improve relapse-free survival in the intent-to-treat and PD-L1 of less than 1% populations.
Adjuvant Osimertinib Does Not Adversely Affect Health-Related QOL for EGFR+ NSCLC
February 15th 2021Patients with EGFR-positive non–small cell lung cancer who received treatment with osimertinib following surgery versus placebo experienced no clinically meaningful differences in health-related quality of life, according to results of a pivotal phase 3 trial.
Atezolizumab, Chemo Combo Improves Outcomes Without Adding Treatment Burden in Early TNBC
December 11th 2020Neoadjuvant atezolizumab added to nab-paclitaxel followed by doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide improved pathologic complete responses compared with placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with early triple-negative breast cancer without adding additional treatment burden.
PreciseDx Accurately Classifies Low-Risk Recurrence Scores in Breast Cancer
December 10th 2020PreciseDx, an artificial intelligence–digital breast cancer risk discrimination platform, was able to classify patients with Oncotype Dx low-risk recurrence scores with high accuracy using only hematoxylin and eosin stain images and limited clinical data.
PORT Not Recommended as Standard of Care for Completely Resected Stage IIIAN2 NSCLC
September 26th 2020Post-operative radiotherapy was associated with a nonstatistically significant increase in disease-free survival in patients with completely resected stage IIIAN2 non-small cell lung cancer and therefore cannot be recommended as a standard of care.
Adding Nivolumab to Chemo Improves PFS, Elicits Higher ORR in Gastric/GEJ Cancers
September 24th 2020The addition of nivolumab (Opdivo) to chemotherapy resulted in a statistically significant improvement in PFS and evoked higher ORRs in patients with previously untreated advanced or recurrent gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer.