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An online educational tool about PARP inhibitors improved clinicians’ confidence in their ability to use them correctly in women with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer.
Establishing protocols for side-effect reporting and management beforehand can maximize adherence to PARP inhibitor maintenance therapy.
Although the combination of bevacizumab and olaparib showed superior progression-free survival compared with bevacizumab plus placebo as upfront maintenance therapy in women with advanced ovarian cancer, the lack of an olaparib monotherapy comparator limits meaningful interpretation.
The rate of overall survival was similar between nivolumab and either gemcitabine or pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in the open-label, randomized phase 3 NINJA clinical trial of patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, but the overall duration of response was longer in the nivolumab arm.
In the FORWARD II clinical trial, mirvetuximab soravtansine combined with carboplatin and bevacizumab induced an overall response rate of 83% in patients with recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.
Copay maximizer programs are replacing copay accumulator programs, and the trend toward increasing cost burden for patients continues.
The combination of dabrafenib and trametinib performs as well in the real world as in clinical trials in patients with BRAF V600-mutated advanced melanoma and brain metastases, but the medical need for patients with brain metastases remains high.
The combination of ipilimumab and anti–PD-1 therapy showed efficacy comparable to clinical trial populations in patients with preexisting autoimmune disease and advanced melanoma.
A review of posts to health-related social media over a 5-year period reveals that symptoms and their impact are the most frequently discussed topics by patients with melanoma and their caregivers.
In a landmark single-institution analysis of patients with advanced melanoma, those who stopped their immunotherapy within 7 months of achieving a complete response had comparable disease-free survival to those who were treated for longer than 7 months.
