The patient view on digitalisation in oncology
Digital tools offer potential solutions to personalise the patient journey, but more effort is needed to integrate them into current healthcare settings
Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus relatlimab shows benefit in MMR-deficient colon cancers
In the NICHE-3 study, all patients achieved a pathological response
How to improve healthcare in times of crises
Collaboration is needed to advocate for resilient healthcare systems that can navigate crises and deliver high-quality care to patients with cancer, even in the most trying circumstances
Advanced pancreatic cancer: is triple chemotherapy into question?
Results presented at ESMO Congress 2023 open-up an interesting debate on the use of currently recommended treatment regimens
Triplet therapy does not outperform doublet treatment first line in metastatic pancreatic cancer
Results from the JCOG1611-GENERATE trial fuel the debate around the preferred option in this setting
New treatment paradigms may offer advances in pancreatic cancer treatments
Neoadjuvant, perioperative, targeted and combined treatment approaches have shown potential benefit for patients with this aggressive disease, but further research is needed
Disappointing results from immune checkpoint inhibition combined with androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer
Negative trials presented at the ESMO Congress 2023 suggest that a new treatment strategy may be required for patients with metastatic disease
Precision medicine shows promising results for enabling targeted treatment of cancers of unknown primary
Progression-free survival was longer with tumour-specific versus standard chemotherapy in two trials, but further work is needed to improve prognosis for these patients
First-line selpercatinib prolongs PFS in RET-mutated medullary thyroid carcinoma
Study findings support routine RET-mutation testing for all patients with advanced MTC, but further work is needed to identify predictive markers
Early-phase trials demonstrate new frontiers for ADCs in breast cancer
Encouraging preliminary results are reported with innovative antibody–drug conjugate designs, but underlying mechanisms of action still need to be described to improve efficacy and tolerability