News & Updates

In women with breast cancer, oncoplastic surgery improves quality of life and is associated with high patient satisfaction, reports a new study.

Taking a statin after breast cancer surgery appears to reduce the risk of disease recurrence in Asians, especially among those with invasive cancers, as shown in a study from Singapore.

Hot on the heels of ACC.22 ground-breaking reports, the ACC/AHA/HFSA* released the 2022 heart failure (HF) guideline, with special emphasis on quad therapy for patients with reduced ejection fraction.

In patients with advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive non-small cell lung cancer (ALK+ NSCLC) who were ALK inhibitor-naïve, brigatinib showed superior efficacy and safety over crizotinib, according to the final results of the phase III ALTA-1L* trial presented at ELCC 2022.

In women with platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer without a deleterious or suspected deleterious germline BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation (non-gBRCAm), maintenance olaparib was well tolerated, according to the secondary safety results from the phase IIIb OPINION study presented at SGO 2022.

In patients with high-risk or unfavourable nonmetastatic prostate cancer (nmPC) receiving local definite therapy, the intensification of systemic therapy using chemotherapy or an androgen receptor signaling inhibitor (ARSI), in combination with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), leads to better oncologic survival measures, reports a recent meta-analysis.