Transforming cancer care through collaborative research
Successful partnerships between industry and academia has had a positive impact on cancer drug discovery and development in prostate cancer
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
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
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
Tissue agnostic study shows activity of ADCs in solid tumours with HER2 activating mutations
In the DESTINY-PanTumour01 trial, promising response rates were seen with trastuzumab deruxtecan in heavily pre-treated patients with different cancer types
Therapies targeting the TIGIT and STING pathways hold therapeutic promise
Safety and efficacy data of some novel immunotherapy agents are encouraging, but more research is needed to identify biomarkers and the optimal treatment schedule
Performance data from AI tools show progress in oncology
Cancer imaging and identification of predictive biomarkers are the best performed tasks reported in studies presented at ESMO Congress 2023
An ESMO study reveals that poor quality of real-world data from oncology studies is still an issue
Scarcity of prospective data was reported as well as a limited use of real-world evidence as definitive evidence to regulatory approval decisions of targeted therapies in Europe
TIL therapy – an opportunity for a few centres?
Regulatory, practical and economic challenges are associated with implementing this personalised treatment on a larger scale, thus currently limiting its availability and accessibility to patients
Patient engagement will be difficult as long as ‘normal’ is equal to ‘healthy’
Constant advocacy by patient groups at all levels is needed to help people with cancer navigate the healthcare system ensuring access to novel medicines which is still a major issue in different countries