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Prior history of ischaemic stroke appears to affect the risk of ischaemic stroke in patients newly diagnosed with cancer, according to a study from Canada presented at ASH 2021.

Both individualized counselling (IC) and pamphlets have improved the uptake of influenza vaccination, but IC does not appear to be superior to pamphlets alone at improving vaccine acceptance, according to a Singapore study.

In a phase II study, the novel oral HIF*-2α inhibitor belzutifan showed promise for individuals with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) associated with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, a rare autosomal dominant hereditary disease associated with benign and malignant neoplasms, including clear-cell RCC, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours, and CNS** and retinal hemangioblastomas.

Treatment intensification is needed in around one-third of biologic-naïve patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who had received initial antitumour necrosis factor α (anti-TNFα) medication, a recent study has found.

The combination of cabozantinib and atezolizumab in the first-line setting significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) compared with sorafenib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to results of the phase III COSMIC-312 trial presented at ESMO Asia 2021.