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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.

Antihypertensive medications prove to be effective and lasting in decreasing office blood pressure (BP) among individuals with white-coat hypertension (WCH), suggests a study.

The overall survival (OS) benefit observed with the STRIDE regimen compared with sorafenib in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is consistent regardless of baseline liver function, according to exploratory analysis of data from the phase III HIMALAYA trial presented at ESMO GI 2022.

In patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), using trifluridine/tipiracil with bevacizumab is a safe and effective treatment for refractory disease, a recent study has found.

Individuals exposed to low-dose methotrexate risk developing melanoma, although the absolute risk increase remains very low, as shown in a recent meta-analysis.

First-line treatment of ALK-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with lorlatinib improves progression-free survival (PFS) and reduces central nervous system (CNS) progression vs crizotinib, regardless of presence or absence of baseline brain metastases (BM), a post hoc analysis of the phase III CROWN trial has shown.

In patients with of type 2 diabetes (T2D), glargine 300 U/mL (Gla-300) and degludec 100 U/mL (Deg-100) deliver similar improvements in glycaemic control, without increasing weight and hypoglycaemic events over 6 months of treatment, according to data from the retrospective RESTORE-2 NAIVE study.

A recent first-in-human study has shown that directly applying pembrolizumab to the bladder is a safe and effective treatment option for patients with nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) who are unresponsive to bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) treatment.