Physical therapists may play a key role in patient care before, during, and after treatment for cancer, according to Alison Ankiewicz, DPT, PT.
Integrating psychosocial care into cancer care allows patients to receive emotional support, counseling, and coping strategies to help navigate treatment.
The June Hot Topics focuses on the challenges venetoclax regimens have faced in multiple myeloma trials.
“HER2CLIMB-05 has demonstrated that the addition of tucatinib to HP represents an enhanced frontline maintenance therapy option for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer,” said Erika Hamilton, MD.
“It’s a treatment for those patients who don’t have any other effective treatments available,” said Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, MD, on lifileucel in melanoma.
Abstract: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms. They can be functioning tumors with secretion of a variety of peptide hormones, or nonfunctioning tumors with metastases to the liver at the time of diagnosis. Well-differentiated tumors tend to be slow-growing and characterized by low tumor mutational burden (TMB) and lower propensity to express PD-L1. Hypercalcemia due to malignancy can occur in about 20% to 30% of patients with cancer. The secretion of parathyroid hormone–related protein (PTH-rP) is among the causes of malignant hypercalcemia and has seldom been associated with hypercalcemia of NETs. Although the therapeutic landscape for neuroendocrine neoplasms has evolved substantially over the past decade, the role of immunotherapy has not yet been completely explored in this group of patients. We present a rare case of a metastatic pancreatic NET with high TMB, high PD-L1 tumor proportion score, and high PTH-rP–related hypercalcemia.
Sam Klempner, MD, provides insight on HER2-targeted therapy for patients with upper GI cancer, and the Oncology Brothers recap the entire discussion.
Teresa Macarulla, MD, PhD, and Cindy Neuzillet, MD, PhD, offer key takeaways and conclude their discussion by offering advice for clinicians treating patients with NRG1 fusion–positive malignancies.
Danazol was reviewed as an effective treatment option for patients with myelodyspplastic syndromes, according to a recently published article by Sangam Shah, MBBS, et al.
Multidisciplinary care can help ensure that treatment planning does not deviate from established guidelines for inflammatory breast cancer management.
An expert from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute indicates that urologists should refer patients with prostate cancer who present with multiple high-risk factors at surgery to a radiation and medical oncologist.
Given resource scarcity, developing practice strategies for resource-constrained settings would require aid from commercial and government stakeholders.
Dr. Judd W. Moul, MD, and colleagues present the case of a man, aged 73 years, with a prostate-specific antigen level of 110 ng/mL after 4 negative prostate biopsies and 4 negative prostate MRIs.