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Maximal androgen blockade the prime prostate cancer treatment option in older patients
Among prostate cancer patients aged ≥75 years, maximal androgen blockage (MAB) appears to be the most common treatment option, reports a new South Korea study. Meanwhile, the combination of leuprolide and bicalutamide is the most common MAB regimen.

First-line rucaparib boosts PFS in ovarian cancer regardless of HRD status
First-line rucaparib maintenance therapy extends progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer, according to results of the phase III ATHENA-MONO trial presented at the ESMO Gynaecological Cancers Conference 2022.

Any upside to frontline mFOLFOXIRI-panitumumab in mCRC?
In patients with unresectable RAS and BRAF wildtype metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), a modified FOLFOXIRI plus panitumumab (mFOLFOXIRI/PAN*) treatment strategy in the first-line setting did not improve objective response rate (ORR) compared with FOLFOX plus panitumumab (mFOLFOX6/PAN**), results of the phase III TRIPLETE study showed.

Pembrolizumab shows durable efficacy in sorafenib-treated advanced HCC
Pembrolizumab has demonstrated durable efficacy and a manageable adverse event (AE) profile in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) previously treated with sorafenib in a 5-year follow-up of the KEYNOTE-224 study.

Bladder-directed heated chemotherapy of no clear benefit in NMIBC
In patients with intermediate-risk nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), intravesical chemohyperthermia (CHT) does not translate to better cancer control than standard room-temperature chemotherapy, according to a recent phase II study HIVEC-II.

Add-on pyrotinib in neoadjuvant setting safe, effective for HER2-positive advanced breast cancer
In the treatment of patients with HER2-positive locally advanced breast cancer, adding pyrotinib to trastuzumab plus chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting yields high response rates while being safe, according to the results of NeoATP trial.



