European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2023

Patients with breast or gastrointestinal (GI) cancer who are being treated with capecitabine monotherapy may benefit from using topical diclofenac gel to prevent or reduce the incidence of hand-foot syndrome (HFS), a common side effect of some chemotherapy drugs, reports a recent study presented at ESMO 2023.

First-line treatment with TST001 (osemitamab) in combination with capecitabine and oxaliplatin (CAPOX) is safe and well tolerated in patients with advanced gastric/gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ) cancer, according to a study presented at ESMO 2023.

The prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)–targeted radioligand, lutetium-177 (¹⁷⁷Lu)–PSMA-617, improves radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) vs androgen receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI) switch and has a favourable safety profile in taxane-naïve patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) progressing on one prior second-generation ARPI, results of the phase III PSMAfore trial have shown.

In the phase III MARIPOSA trial, the amivantamab-lazertinib cocktail outdid osimertinib as first-line (1L) treatment for EGFR-mutated, advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Prolonged exposure to air pollution appears to put women at increased risk of breast cancer, according to data from the French E3N cohort.