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Patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) are at greater risk of adverse events (AEs), have low overall survival (OS), and suffer a substantial economic burden, reports a study, which suggests the need for effective treatment options.

Smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) worsen the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications after lung cancer resection, a recent study has found. Focusing on COPD treatment, rather than smoking cessation alone, may be a more optimal approach to improve postoperative outcomes in this population.

Treatment with the antiprogrammed cell death protein 1 (anti–PD-1) monoclonal antibody tislelizumab yields high response rates in relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin's lymphoma, with a similar toxicity profile as other anti–PD-1 therapies, as shown in the extended results of a phase II trial.

Exclusionary testing, involving upfront testing for EGFR and ALK followed by next-generation sequencing (NGS) for other genomic alterations (GAs), is the most efficient and cost-saving molecular testing strategy for patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Hong Kong and perhaps East Asia, researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have reported.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) reduces the risk of disease progression or death by 72 percent vs trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer whose disease progressed during or after treatment with an anti–HER-2 antibody, the first interim analysis of the DESTINY-Breast03 trial has shown.