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In cancer patients, the presence of diabetes appears to aggravate the likelihood of developing a secondary malignancy or death, reports a recent Japan study.

Prophylactic granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) results in a significant decrease both in the rate of febrile neutropaenia (FN) and duration of hospitalization for FN in breast cancer patients treated with docetaxel-based chemotherapy regimens (DBRs), according to a recent study.

Treatment with the combination of palbociclib plus bazedoxifene demonstrates clinical efficacy while having an acceptable safety profile in treatment-experienced patients with hormone receptor–positive/HER2-negative (HR+/HER2−) advanced breast cancer, according to the results of a phase Ib/II study.

First-line (1L) acalabrutinib in combination with lenalidomide and rituximab (ALR) has demonstrated high rates of minimal residual disease (MRD)–negative complete remission (CR) in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), including patients with TP53 mutations, in a single-arm phase II trial reported at the 64^th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.

A large genomic study involving 1,016 Chinese patients with prostate cancer has revealed important differences in castration-sensitive disease between Chinese and Caucasian patients, but the mutation profile of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is similar between the populations.

The MET inhibitor tepotinib demonstrates clinically meaningful antitumour activity, with durable efficacy and manageable safety profile in Asian nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with MET mutations associated with exon 14 skipping, as shown in the subset analysis of the single-arm, phase II VISION study.

A recent study in Bangladesh recommends the inclusion of an individual’s unmet need assessment in every treatment protocol of breast cancer to achieve better treatment outcomes.