Addition of EBRT to Brachytherapy Did Not Improve Outcomes for Men with Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer, Brachytherapy Alone Remains Standard of Care
Results from the NRG-RTOG 0232 clinical trial adding external beam radiotherapy to brachytherapy in men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer indicate that there was no improvement in freedom from progression rates for patients
Alliance Study Shows Some Patients with Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Can Safely Avoid Radiation Therapy
Patients with locally advanced rectal cancer with tumors that respond to chemotherapy can safely forego radiation therapy before surgery based on the findings of the phase 3 Alliance PROSPECT trial
Nivo-AVD New Rx for Advanced Hodgkin Lymphoma
Nivolumab added to AVD chemotherapy expected to become new standard for initial treatment for advanced stage disease in adolescents and adults, based on trial data to be presented at 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting plenary session
S1929 at ASCO Shows Benefit in SLFN11+ SCLC
Results of SWOG S1929 trial show patients with small-cell lung cancer with SLFN11 expression can benefit from PARP inhibitor added to immune checkpoint blockade
Tumor Size Change Correlates Linearly with OS
Changes in RECIST tumor measures correlate linearly with survival in patients treated with checkpoint inhibitors
ComboMATCH investigators are translating robust pre-clinical evidence for new anti-cancer drug combinations into a series of early-phase clinical trials
Five leading cancer research organizations in the United States are jointly announcing the start of patient enrollment in Molecular Analysis for Combination Therapy Choice (ComboMATCH), a unique, precision medicine initiative to test new combinations of cancer drugs guided by tumor biology
S1714 at ASCO Details CIPN in Breast Cancer
S1714 results at ASCO 2023: Taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy in breast cancer: frequent, clinically significant, and worse with paclitaxel
S1011: No Extended Node Removal in Bladder Cancer
Extended lymph node removal does not benefit patients with clinically localized muscle-invasive bladder cancer
SWOG Presents 30 Abstracts at ASCO 2023
SWOG researchers have also contributed to an additional 11 abstracts on studies led by other groups