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Among prostate cancer patients aged ≥75 years, maximal androgen blockage (MAB) appears to be the most common treatment option, reports a new South Korea study. Meanwhile, the combination of leuprolide and bicalutamide is the most common MAB regimen.

First-line rucaparib maintenance therapy extends progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer, according to results of the phase III ATHENA-MONO trial presented at the ESMO Gynaecological Cancers Conference 2022.

In patients with unresectable RAS and BRAF wildtype metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), a modified FOLFOXIRI plus panitumumab (mFOLFOXIRI/PAN*) treatment strategy in the first-line setting did not improve objective response rate (ORR) compared with FOLFOX plus panitumumab (mFOLFOX6/PAN**), results of the phase III TRIPLETE study showed.

Pembrolizumab has demonstrated durable efficacy and a manageable adverse event (AE) profile in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) previously treated with sorafenib in a 5-year follow-up of the KEYNOTE-224 study.

Among patients with endometrial cancer (EC), central nervous system metastasis (CNSm) is strongly associated with poor prognoses and survival outcomes, a recent study has found.

In patients with intermediate-risk nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), intravesical chemohyperthermia (CHT) does not translate to better cancer control than standard room-temperature chemotherapy, according to a recent phase II study HIVEC-II.

In the treatment of patients with HER2-positive locally advanced breast cancer, adding pyrotinib to trastuzumab plus chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting yields high response rates while being safe, according to the results of NeoATP trial.

Genetic predisposition to smoking does not appear to play an important role in the development of endometrial cancer, a study reports.