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Mandible reconstruction and maxilla reconstruction surgeries might be optimized with virtual surgical planning, according to an expert speaker at the 2022 Supportive Care in Cancer Annual Meeting.

We rounded up 5 stories from the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting that are of most value to oncology nurses.

Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, BCPS, FAAHPM, and Amy A. Case, MD, FAAHPM, argue that buprenorphine should play a larger role in cancer-related pain management because of its unique pharmacology and consequent safety profile.

Results of a single-center study presented at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting showed that oral minoxidil may be effective in treating late alopecia. Moving forward, these efforts in survivorship care will need to be expanded to less resourced areas, experts said.

At the 2022 Supportive Care in Cancer Annual Meeting, Jeffrey Crawford, MD, highlighted the potential value of biosimilars in reducing gaps in care for the treatment of febrile neutropenia.

Data from the phase 1/2 EPCORE NHL-2 trial suggest that the combination of epcoritamab and R-CHOP is both effective and manageable in treating patients with high-risk diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Utilization of specialty nurse practitioner driven teams and use of individualized pain protocols for patients admitted with vaso-occlusive pain crisis improves quality of life for patients with sickle cell disease, and decreased hospital stay times.

The FDA has approved lisocabtagene maraleucel as a second-line treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Updated data from the phase 3 BELIEVE trial revealed a sustained reduction in the need for red blood cell transfusions among patients with β-thalassemia who received treatment with luspatercept-aamt.

Laura J. Zitella, MS, RN, ACNP-BC, AOCN, recounts key nursing considerations with targeted therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and third-line diffuse large b-cell lymphoma options.

The FDA approval of dabrafenib plus trametinib for BRAF V600E–mutated unresectable or metastatic solid tumors highlights a potential need for routine BRAF testing in clinical practice, experts say.

Heavily pretreated pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia maintained response with tisagenlecelucel according to long-term follow-up data from the phase 2 ELIANA trial.

Approximately 140 in 100,000 pregnant women receive a cancer diagnosis. Of these diagnoses, 0.1% are considered malignant tumors.

The intracranial objective response rate was 32% among patients with KRAS G12C–mutant, non–small cell lung cancer who received adagrasib.

Phase 2 findings found that patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia experienced increases in hemoglobin following treatment with roxadustat.

A Michigan State University investigator is preparing to expand on an encouraging pilot study that used a music-listening intervention to influence chemotherapy-induced nausea.

Daratumumab plus lenalidomide and dexamethasone bested standard therapy in producing rapid, deep, and durable responses across subgroups of patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Phase 3 findings showed that panitumumab plus mFOLFOX significantly improved overall survival in patients with RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer.

Regardless of other identified driver genomic alterations, patients with heavily pretreated, advanced, non–small cell lung cancer achieved encouraging responses with patritumab deruxtecan.

Patients with recurrent C difficile infection receiving SER-109 experienced reduced rates of infection as early as 4 weeks following treatment.

Although the CDC has put forth a strong effort to improve its opioid guidelines, many providers still feel that more can be done.

Approval of off-the-shelf CAR T-Cell therapy options would provide greater accessibility and benefit to patients, say experts.

A real-world analysis showed that the proportion of women with ovarian cancer who required dose modifications or treatment discontinuations while receiving PARP inhibitors differed significantly between olaparib, niraparib, and rucaparib.

Ilene Galinsky, BSN, MSN, ANP-C, senior leukemia protocol research nurse practitioner at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, underscores key prescribing considerations with venetoclax.

Patients with hormone receptor¬–positive, HER2-negative, node-positive high-risk early breast cancer who have certain characteristics may benefit from early dose adjustments with adjuvant abemaciclib.

Ken Kato, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist at the National Cancer Center of Tokyo, and investigator in the pivotal CheckMate 648 study, underscores relevant safety data updates from the trial and important symptom management considerations with the FDA-approved combinations.

Frontline nivolumab and ipilimumab combination therapy was associated with increased 5-year survivorship in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer—regardless of PD-L1 expression.

Ovarian clear cell carcinoma is a rare histological type of epithelial ovarian cancer that is typically resistant to chemotherapy and is historically associated with poor prognosis for patients.