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Results from the phase III KEYNOTE-522 study presented at ESMO 2024 show a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival (OS) with neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab compared with neoadjuvant chemo alone for previously untreated, high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

In the management of severe cancer pain, intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with hydromorphone delivers superior pain control with greater patient satisfaction as compared with conventional oral morphine, according to the phase III open-label SYLT-021 study.

First-line cemiplimab monotherapy continues to provide durable overall (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) benefits at 5 years compared with chemotherapy in advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with PD-L1 expression ≥50 percent, according to the results of the EMPOWER-Lung 1 study presented at WCLC 2024.

Treatment with osimertinib following definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) demonstrates a manageable safety profile in patients with unresectable stage III EGFR-mutated nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), reports a study presented at WCLC 2024.

A novel prognostic model based on the viral loads of hepatitis B virus (HBV) demonstrates its utility in predicting and stratifying the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in noncirrhotic patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) who are not yet receiving antiviral therapy.

Darolutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT), without docetaxel, improves radiological progression-free survival (rPFS) and secondary efficacy outcomes vs placebo plus ADT in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), according to results of the global phase III ARANOTE trial presented at ESMO 2024.

Adjuvant treatment with aspirin appears to provide some protection in patients with resected, PIK3CA-mutant stage II and III colon cancer, demonstrating a clinically significant improvement (43 percent) in disease-free survival (DFS), suggests a study presented at ESMO Congress 2024.