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In patients with newly diagnosed, previously untreated, high-risk locally advanced cervical cancer, adding pembrolizumab to concurrent chemoradiotherapy (cCRT) significantly improves progression-free survival (PFS) vs cCRT alone, according to results of the phase III ENGOT-cx11/GOG-3047/KEYNOTE-A18 study presented at European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2023 (ESMO 2023).

In the treatment of patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma, adding the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab to chemotherapy helps lower the risk of progression or death, according to the phase III AtTEnd trial.

Increased levels of remnant cholesterol (RC) appear to elevate the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), independent of traditional risk factors, suggests a study. Moreover, pregnant women with high prepregnancy body mass index (BMI), high triglyceride (TG), and high RC levels are at greater GDM risk.

In a pooled analyses of data from the EAGLE*-2 and EAGLE-3 studies, the investigational, first-in-class, oral, triazaacenaphthylene bactericidal antibiotic gepotidacin showed consistent therapeutic efficacy across key patient subgroups and had an acceptable safety profile in female adults and adolescents with uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTI) compared with nitrofurantoin.