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Cervical cancer survivors who regularly engage in sex or use vaginal dilators report lower levels of vaginal shortening.

Using diagnostic CT scans to create palliation plans may save time and improve the patient experience.

Patients with early breast cancer may safely choose a shorter course of radiation therapy following reconstruction.

Patients who received pomalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone achieved a median overall survival of 35.6 months compared with 31.6 months among patients treated with bortezomib and dexamethasone.

Patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer had a median event-free survival of 30.8 months in the durvalumab arm and 19.6 months in the placebo arm.

Findings from the PACIFIC-R trial showed that patients with EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer experienced shorter progression-free survival with durvalumab than patients with EGFR-wildtype disease.

Quizartinib plus standard intensive induction and consolidation therapy was associated with longer survival rates in patients with FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.

The confirmed objective response rate with repotrectinib was 79% among tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI)-naïve patients and 38% among TKI-pretreated patients.

The median progression-free survival was 25.5 months with osimertinib plus chemotherapy and 16.7 months with osimertinib alone.

Patrimumab deruxtecan garnered a 29.8% overall response rate in pretreated patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

Adagrasib elicited a 1-year overall survival rate of 52.8% and 2-year rate of 31.3%.

The median progression-free survival with iruplinalkib was 27.70 months vs 14.62 months with crizotinib.

Although survival is improving overall, disparities continue to grow.

A total of 58.5% of patients who received luspatercept remained red blood cell (RBC) transfusion independent for 12 weeks or more.

The median overall survival with intra-arterial gemcitabine was 15.7 months vs 10.1 months with intravenous gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel.

Patients with breast and gastrointestinal cancers reported fewer hand-foot syndrome events following treatment with topical diclofenac gel.

Phase 3 findings from the CLL12 trial support a watch-and-wait approach over systemic treatment with ibrutinib for patients with asymptomatic early-stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The phase 1/2 TRANSCEND CLL 004 trial met its primary end point by demonstrating that lisocabtagene maraleucel elicited responses in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma.

Talazoparib reduced the risk of progression or death by 55% in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and homologous recombination repair gene alterations.

Second-line treatment with CDK4/6 inhibition was associated with fewer toxicities and drug costs than frontline CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment—although progression-free survival and overall survival outcomes were similar.

The rates of treatment discontinuation were higher with enzalutamide and apalutamide than with darolutamide for patients with non-metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.

Maintenance bevacizumab plus durvalumab and olaparib improved progression-free survival in patients with HRD-negative advanced ovarian cancer.

The median progression-free survival with atezolizumab to cabozantinib was 10.6 vs 10.8 months with cabozantinib alone.

Patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma treated with elranatamab following any prior BCMA-directed therapy achieved an overall response rate of 46%.

Omitting radiotherapy did not compromise overall survival rates for patients with primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma.

Patients with ESR1 mutations who received 12 months or more of prior treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor achieved a median progression free survival of 8.61 months with elacestrant compared with 1.91 months for those given standard therapy.

Patients with HER2-positive, metastatic colorectal cancer derived clinical benefit from a 5.4 mg/kg dose of trastuzumab deruxtecan.

Sabrina Banegas, RN, BMT-CN, highlights the value of improving antibiotic administration times for patients undergoing bone marrow transplant.