Gynecologic Cancers

In this episode of “The Vitals,” Heidi Donovan, PhD, RN, discusses novel symptom management intervention for women with recurrent ovarian cancer.

Findings from a phase 1 trial evaluating CAR T-cell therapy in patients with solid tumors showed promising clinical benefit with the treatment strategy.

Courtney Arn, APRN-CNP, a nurse practitioner comments on the recent approval of pembrolizumab for patients with MSI-H/dMMR advanced endometrial carcinoma.

The PARP inhibitor rucaparib significantly prolonged progression-free survival compared with placebo as a first-line maintenance treatment in previously treated patients with ovarian cancer.

Courtney Arn, APRN-CNP, a nurse practitioner who supported cohorts D and K of the KEYNOTE-158 study, discusses the recent approval of pembrolizumab for patients with MSI-H/dMMR advanced endometrial carcinoma.

The PARP inhibitor, niraparib, in conjunction with the VEGF inhibitor, bevacizumab, resulted in encouraging responses from patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

Data collected with patient-reported outcomes show that pembrolizumab, with or without bevacizumab, is associated with a favorable toxicity profile in effectively treating women with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer.

Whether administered as an immune primer or concurrently with extended field chemoradiation, atezolizumab demonstrated efficacy in triggering T-cell clonal expansions and prolonging progression-free survival in patients with cervical cancer.

Selinexor demonstrated impressive efficacy in extending progression-free survival among patient with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer, particularly among patients with wild-type p53 endometrial cancer.

The FDA has approved pembrolizumab to treat patients with endometrial carcinoma that is microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient, as determined by an FDA-approved test.

The ongoing FLORA-5 trial will assess whether the addition of oregovomab to a standard chemotherapy regimen will improve progression-free and overall survival in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer.

Heidi Donovan, PhD, RN, comments on principles of symptom management that she believes need to be better implemented in clinical practice—particularly for patients with ovarian cancer.

A new symptom-management guide designed by oncology nurses helps women with ovarian cancer feel more in control of their symptoms.

Selinexor, an oral selective inhibitor of nuclear export, demonstrated promising efficacy in increasing progression-free survival among women with advanced endometrial cancer.

An expert with Stanford Health comments on the potential value of secondary cytoreductive surgery for patients with recurrent ovarian cancer and the need for careful patient selection when considering this treatment strategy.

An expert from Arizona Oncology discusses the unmet need for agents to address recurrent ovarian cancer and how upifitamab rilsodotin, an antibody-drug conjugate with promising preclinical and clinical data, may play into the treatment paradigm.

An expert from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) discusses the alarming rate of high-risk uterine cancers among Black women and how researchers are investigating the underlying risk factors at play.

An expert from the University of Colorado (UC Health) comments on ongoing clinical trials which promise to shake up the treatment paradigm of endometrial cancer.

An expert from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center discusses whether predictive biomarkers hold the potential to change endometrial prognoses.

As the HPV vaccine becomes more prevalent, cervical cancer rates are expected to decrease significantly by 2030. However, this trend may differ across socioeconomic communities.

The use of PARP inhibitor olaparib in conjunction with temozolomide may be an effective treatment for patients with advanced uterine leiomyosarcoma whose tumors harbor a BRCA-like phenotype.

Patients with various solid tumor types experienced improved antitumor immunity after adhering to a diet with severe caloric restrictions.

The addition of bevacizumab was found to boost responses in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer receiving pembrolizumab.

In a phase 1 dose-escalation trial, treatment with the investigative agent was well tolerated with no dose-limiting toxicities.

A presentation at the 2021 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting shared updated findings on the efficacy of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab in patients with advanced endometrial cancer.