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Terri Pollack, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, shares some of her top takeaways from the 2023 ASCO GI Cancers Symposium.

The FDA has granted avasopasem a priority review for severe oral mucositis in patients with head and neck cancer who are receiving radiotherapy.

Extended follow-up of the CheckMate 274 trial showed continued efficacy with nivolumab in patients with muscle-invasive urothelial cancer who had undergone radical resection.

Restricted diets are commonplace at many cancer centers, but there is no evidence that they reduce a patient’s risk of infection.

Real-world data support front-line maintenance with avelumab for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma following platinum-based chemotherapy.

Updated findings from the KEYNOTE-146 trial support the use of lenvatinib/pembrolizumab in advanced endometrial cancer.

The median overall survival was 42.1 months with abiraterone plus olaparib and 34.7 months with abiraterone plus placebo in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Approximately 30% of patients remained on treatment with darolutamide for over 4 years, according to a long-term safety and tolerability updated from the ARAMIS rollover study.

At a median follow-up of 24.9 months, imaging-based progression-free survival was not reached among patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had received talazoparib plus enzalutamide.

Frontline ponatinib plus reduced-intensity chemotherapy yielded a higher minimal residual disease-negative complete remission rate than imatinib in the phase 3 PhALLCON study.

Prior authorization costs clinicians time and money. Heading into 2023, prior authorization was listed as a top administrative challenge.

As treatment strategies for renal cell carcinoma shift to targeted therapies and immunotherapy, reassessing the quality of end-of-life care remains essential, according to investigators.

Nursing education should be viewed as a long-course endeavor rather than a sprint.

Triple-negative breast cancer often occurs in women younger than 40.

Three groups have combined efforts to create a Health Equity Report Card pilot program which will seek to address the sources of disparities in the cancer care system.

Being an oncology nurse means supporting the patient—even through social media engagement.

In an 8 to 5 vote, ODAC voted in support of launching 2 single-arm trials seeking to characterize the risk-benefit profile of dostarlimab for patients with dMMR/MSI-H locally advanced rectal cancer.

According to Fennec Pharmaceuticals, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network is updating it guidelines to recommend injections of sodium thiosulfate to reduce the risk of ototoxicity in pediatric patients receiving cisplatin.

Anna Skwira-Brown, APRN, AOCNP, highlights the value of taking a moment to pause before embarking on a serious conversation with a patient during end-of-life care.

Dostarlimab-gxly has been granted regular approval for the treatment of patients with dMMR endometrial cancer. The label comes with warnings for immune-mediated adverse effects.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has updated their guidelines to include neratinib for patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma continued to displayed a survival benefit with pembrolizumab at a 4-year follow-up.

A study in the Oncology Nursing Forum highlights which factors are associated with positive psychology and symptom burden in colorectal cancer survivors.

Findings from a phase 2/3 trial found better disease-free and overall survival outcomes with radiation plus docetaxel vs radiation alone in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Patients with RAS-wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer did not experience a benefit in terms of response rate or survival when cetuximab was added to the first cycle of chemotherapy.

Nanvuranlat inspired better progression-free survival in patients with advanced, pretreated refractory biliary tract cancer, meeting the primary end point of a phase 2 trial.

Newer agents approved for frontline hepatocellular carcinoma, including lenvatinib, and atezolizumab/bevacizumab, yielded superior survival outcomes than sorafenib in a real-world setting.

At 11.3 months of follow-up, magrolimab, rituximab, gemcitabine, and oxaliplatin yielded an overall response rate of 51.5%, including a complete response rate of 39.4%, among patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.