Oncology

Article Oncology

Cancer statistics, 2022

Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Hannah E. Fuchs, Ahmedin Jemal

Summary: Each year, the American Cancer Society compiles data on cancer occurrence and outcomes in the United States. The latest data shows that breast and prostate cancer progress has stagnated, while lung cancer has shown improvements in survival rates. Lung cancer incidence for advanced disease has declined while localized-stage rates have increased, resulting in higher survival rates. Mortality patterns align with incidence trends, with lung cancer deaths declining rapidly, breast cancer deaths slowing, and prostate cancer deaths stabilizing.

CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS (2022)

Article Oncology

Phase III Study of Afatinib or Cisplatin Plus Pemetrexed in Patients With Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinoma With EGFR Mutations

Lecia V. Sequist, James Chih-Hsin Yang, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, Kenneth O'Byrne, Vera Hirsh, Tony Mok, Sarayut Lucien Geater, Sergey Orlov, Chun-Ming Tsai, Michael Boyer, Wu-Chou Su, Jaafar Bennouna, Terufumi Kato, Vera Gorbunova, Ki Hyeong Lee, Riyaz Shah, Dan Massey, Victoria Zazulina, Mehdi Shahidi, Martin Schuler

Summary: The study compared the efficacy of chemotherapy with afatinib in the treatment of EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma. Results showed that afatinib prolonged progression-free survival and improved the quality of life for patients, when compared with chemotherapy.

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY (2023)

Review Oncology

Hallmarks of Cancer: New Dimensions

Douglas Hanahan

Summary: The concept of the hallmarks of cancer is a tool for simplifying the complexity of cancer phenotypes and genotypes into basic principles. This article proposes phenotypic plasticity and disrupted differentiation as distinct hallmark capabilities, and discusses nonmutational epigenetic reprogramming and polymorphic microbiomes as enabling characteristics. Additionally, the importance of senescent cells in the tumor microenvironment is highlighted. The integrative concept of the hallmarks of cancer helps in understanding the mechanisms of cancer development and applying that knowledge to cancer medicine.

CANCER DISCOVERY (2022)

Article Oncology

Cancer statistics, 2023

Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Nikita Sandeep Wagle, Ahmedin Jemal

Summary: The American Cancer Society predicts that there will be 1,958,310 new cancer cases and 609,820 cancer deaths in the United States in 2023. While incidence trends for most cancers are favorable, prostate cancer saw a significant increase of 3% annually from 2014 to 2019. However, the overall cancer death rate continues to decline due to advances in treatment, with a 33% reduction since 1991.

CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS (2023)

Review Oncology

Targeting ferroptosis as a vulnerability in cancer

Guang Lei, Li Zhuang, Boyi Gan

Summary: This article provides an overview of the importance and potential of ferroptosis in cancer research, summarizes the mechanisms of ferroptosis induction and defense, analyzes its roles and mechanisms in tumor suppression and tumor immunity, and explores therapeutic strategies targeting ferroptosis in cancer.

NATURE REVIEWS CANCER (2022)

Review Oncology

Immunotherapies for hepatocellular carcinoma

Josep M. Llovet, Florian Castet, Mathias Heikenwalder, Mala K. Maini, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, David J. Pinato, Eli Pikarsky, Andrew X. Zhu, Richard S. Finn

Summary: Liver cancer, specifically hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is the second leading cause of cancer-related death globally. Traditional treatments involve specific drugs, but the emergence of immune checkpoint inhibitors has revolutionized the management of HCC.

NATURE REVIEWS CLINICAL ONCOLOGY (2022)

Article Oncology

Cancer treatment and survivorship statistics, 2022

Kimberly D. Miller, Leticia Nogueira, Theresa Devasia, Angela B. Mariotto, K. Robin Yabroff, Ahmedin Jemal, Joan Kramer, Rebecca L. Siegel

Summary: The number of cancer survivors in the United States is increasing due to population growth, aging, and improved detection and treatment. The most prevalent cancers are prostate, skin melanoma, and colon and rectum for males, and breast, uterine corpus, and thyroid for females. Treatment disparities exist, with Black patients being less likely to be diagnosed with early-stage cancer and having lower surgical receipt rates.

CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS (2022)

Article Oncology

Nivolumab versus sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (CheckMate 459): a randomised, multicentre, open-label, phase 3 trial

Thomas Yau, Joong-Won Park, Richard S. Finn, Ann-Lii Cheng, Philippe Mathurin, Julien Edeline, Masatoshi Kudo, James J. Harding, Philippe Merle, Olivier Rosmorduc, Lucjan Wyrwicz, Eckart Schott, Su Pin Choo, Robin Kate Kelley, Wolfgang Sieghart, Eric Assenat, Renata Zaucha, Junji Furuse, Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, Anthony B. El-Khoueiry, Ignacio Melero, Damir Begic, Gong Chen, Jaclyn Neely, Tami Wisniewski, Marina Tschaika, Bruno Sangro

Summary: First-line nivolumab treatment did not significantly improve overall survival compared with sorafenib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, but clinical activity and a favorable safety profile were observed in some patients.

LANCET ONCOLOGY (2022)

Review Oncology

Connecting copper and cancer: from transition metal signalling to metalloplasia

Eva J. Ge, Ashley I. Bush, Angela Casini, Paul A. Cobine, Justin R. Cross, Gina M. DeNicola, Q. Ping Dou, Katherine J. Franz, Vishal M. Gohil, Sanjeev Gupta, Stephen G. Kaler, Svetlana Lutsenko, Vivek Mittal, Michael J. Petris, Roman Polishchuk, Martina Ralle, Michael L. Schilsky, Nicholas K. Tonks, Linda T. Vahdat, Linda Van Aelst, Dan Xi, Peng Yuan, Donita C. Brady, Christopher J. Chang

Summary: Copper is a essential nutrient with both beneficial and toxic properties to cells. Recent progress in transition metal signaling has led to new connections between researchers from different disciplines, with potential for translating basic research into clinical therapies for diseases. The relationship between copper and cancer is particularly important, with opportunities for leveraging disease vulnerabilities through copper-dependent signaling pathways.

NATURE REVIEWS CANCER (2022)

Article Oncology

Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019 A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Jonathan M. Kocarnik, Kelly Compton, Frances E. Dean, Weijia Fu, Brian L. Gaw, James D. Harvey, Hannah Jacqueline Henrikson, Dan Lu, Alyssa Pennini, Rixing Xu, Emad Ababneh, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Hedayat Abbastabar, Sherief M. Abd-Elsalam, Amir Abdoli, Aidin Abedi, Hassan Abidi, Hassan Abolhassani, Isaac Akinkunmi Adedeji, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Shailesh M. Advani, Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Mohammad Aghaali, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Sajjad Ahmad, Tauseef Ahmad, Ali Ahmadi, Sepideh Ahmadi, Tarik Ahmed Rashid, Yusra Ahmed Salih, Gizachew Taddesse Akalu, Addis Aklilu, Tayyaba Akram, Chisom Joyqueenet Akunna, Hanadi Al Hamad, Fares Alahdab, Ziyad Al-Aly, Saqib Ali, Yousef Alimohamadi, Vahid Alipour, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Motasem Alkhayyat, Amir Almasi-Hashiani, Nihad A. Almasri, Sadeq Ali Ali Al-Maweri, Sami Almustanyir, Nivaldo Alonso, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Hubert Amu, Etsay Woldu Anbesu, Robert Ancuceanu, Fereshteh Ansari, Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam, Maxwell Hubert Antwi, Davood Anvari, Anayochukwu Edward Anyasodor, Muhammad Aqeel, Jalal Arabloo, Morteza Arab-Zozani, Olatunde Aremu, Hany Ariffin, Timur Aripov, Muhammad Arshad, Al Artaman, Judie Arulappan, Zatollah Asemi, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Tahira Ashraf, Prince Atorkey, Avinash Aujayeb, Marcel Ausloos, Atalel Fentahun Awedew, Beatriz Paulina Ayala Quintanilla, Temesgen Ayenew, Mohammed A. Azab, Sina Azadnajafabad, Amirhossein Azari Jafari, Ghasem Azarian, Ahmed Y. Azzam, Ashish D. Badiye, Saeed Bahadory, Atif Amin Baig, Jennifer L. Baker, Senthilkumar Balakrishnan, Maciej Banach, Till Winfried Barnighausen, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Fabio Barra, Amadou Barrow, Masoud Behzadifar, Uzma Iqbal Belgaumi, Woldesellassie M. Mequanint Bezabhe, Yihienew Mequanint Bezabih, Devidas S. Bhagat, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Nikha Bhardwaj, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Sonu Bhaskar, Krittika Bhattacharyya, Vijayalakshmi S. Bhojaraja, Sadia Bibi, Ali Bijani, Antonio Biondi, Catherine Bisignano, Tone Bjorge, Archie Bleyer, Oleg Blyuss, Obasanjo Afolabi Bolarinwa, Srinivasa Rao Bolla, Dejana Braithwaite, Amanpreet Brar, Hermann Brenner, Maria Teresa Bustamante-Teixeira, Nadeem Shafique Butt, Zahid A. Butt, Florentino Luciano Caetano Dos Santos, Yin Cao, Giulia Carreras, Ferran Catala-Lopez, Francieli Cembranel, Ester Cerin, Achille Cernigliaro, Raja Chandra Chakinala, Soosanna Kumary Chattu, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Pankaj Chaturvedi, Odgerel Chimed-Ochir, Daniel Youngwhan Cho, Devasahayam J. Christopher, Dinh-Toi Chu, Michael T. Chung, Joao Conde, Sanda Cortes, Paolo Angelo Cortesi, Vera Marisa Costa, Amanda Ramos Cunha, Omid Dadras, Amare Belachew Dagnew, Saad M. A. Dahlawi, Xiaochen Dai, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Aso Mohammad Darwesh, Jose das Neves, Fernando Pio De la Hoz, Asmamaw Bizuneh Demis, Edgar Denova-Gutierrez, Deepak Dhamnetiya, Mandira Lamichhane Dhimal, Meghnath Dhimal, Mostafa Dianatinasab, Daniel Diaz, Shirin Djalalinia, Huyen Phuc Do, Saeid Doaei, Fariba Dorostkar, Francisco Winter Dos Santos Figueiredo, Tim Robert Driscoll, Hedyeh Ebrahimi, Sahar Eftekharzadeh, Maha El Tantawi, Hassan El-Abid, Iffat Elbarazi, Hala Rashad Elhabashy, Muhammed Elhadi, Shaimaa El-Jaafary, Babak Eshrati, Sharareh Eskandarieh, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Arash Etemadi, Sayeh Ezzikouri, Mohammed Faisaluddin, Emerito Jose A. Faraon, Jawad Fares, Farshad Farzadfar, Abdullah Hamid Feroze, Simone Ferrero, Lorenzo Ferro Desideri, Irina Filip, Florian Fischer, James L. Fisher, Masoud Foroutan, Takeshi Fukumoto, Peter Andras Gaal, Mohamed M. Gad, Muktar A. Gadanya, Silvano Gallus, Mariana Gaspar Fonseca, Abera Getachew Obsa, Mansour Ghafourifard, Ahmad Ghashghaee, Nermin Ghith, Maryam Gholamalizadeh, Syed Amir Gilani, Themba G. Ginindza, Abraham Tamirat T. Gizaw, James C. Glasbey, Mahaveer Golechha, Pouya Goleij, Ricardo Santiago Gomez, Sameer Vali Gopalani, Giuseppe Gorini, Houman Goudarzi, Giuseppe Grosso, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen Gubari, Maximiliano Ribeiro Guerra, Avirup Guha, D. Sanjeeva Gunasekera, Bhawna Gupta, Veer Bala Gupta, Vivek Kumar Gupta, Reyna Alma Gutierrez, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Mohammad Rifat Haider, Arvin Haj-Mirzaian, Rabih Halwani, Randah R. Hamadeh, Sajid Hameed, Samer Hamidi, Asif Hanif, Shafiul Haque, Netanja Harlianto, Josep Maria Haro, Ahmed Hasaballah, Soheil Hassanipour, Roderick J. Hay, Simon Hay, Khezar Hayat, Golnaz Heidari, Mohammad Heidari, Brenda Yuliana Herrera-Serna, Claudiu Herteliu, Kamal Hezam, Ramesh Holla, Md Mahbub Hossain, Mohammad Bellal Hossain Hossain, Mohammad-Salar Hosseini, Mostafa Hosseini, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mihaela Hostiuc, Sorin Hostiuc, Mowafa Househ, Mohamed Hsairi, Junjie Huang, Fernando N. Hugo, Rabia Hussain, Nawfal R. Hussein, Bing-Fang Hwang, Ivo Iavicoli, Segun Emmanuel Ibitoye, Fidelia Ida, Kevin S. Ikuta, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Irena M. Ilic, Milena D. Ilic, Lalu Muhammad Irham, Jessica Y. Islam, Rakibul M. Islam, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Nahlah Elkudssiah Ismail, Gaetano Isola, Masao Iwagami, Louis Jacob, Vardhmaan Jain, Mihajlo B. Jakovljevic, Tahereh Javaheri, Shubha Jayaram, Seyed Behzad Jazayeri, Ravi Prakash Jha, Jost B. Jonas, Tamas Joo, Nitin Joseph, Farahnaz Joukar, Mikk Jurisson, Ali Kabir, Danial Kahrizi, Leila R. Kalankesh, Rohollah Kalhor, Feroze Kaliyadan, Yogeshwar Kalkonde, Ashwin Kamath, Nawzad Kameran Al-Salihi, Himal Kandel, Neeti Kapoor, Andre Karch, Ayele Semachew Kasa, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Joonas H. Kauppila, Taras Kavetskyy, Sewnet Adem Kebede, Pedram Keshavarz, Mohammad Keykhaei, Yousef Saleh Khader, Rovshan Khalilov, Gulfaraz Khan, Maseer Khan, Md Nuruzzaman Khan, Moien A. B. Khan, Young-Ho Khang, Amir M. Khater, Maryam Khayamzadeh, Gyu Ri Kim, Yun Jin Kim, Adnan Kisa, Sezer Kisa, Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek, Jacek A. Kopec, Rajasekaran Koteeswaran, Parvaiz A. Koul, Sindhura Lakshmi Koulmane Laxminarayana, Ai Koyanagi, Burcu Kucuk Bicer, Nuworza Kugbey, G. Anil Kumar, Narinder Kumar, Nithin Kumar, Om P. Kurmi, Tezer Kutluk, Carlo La Vecchia, Faris Hasan Lami, Ivan Landires, Paolo Lauriola, Sang-Woong Lee, Shaun Wen Huey Lee, Wei-Chen Lee, Yo Han Lee, James Leigh, Elvynna Leong, Jiarui Li, Ming-Chieh Li, Xuefeng Liu, Joana A. Loureiro, Raimundas Lunevicius, Muhammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Azeem Majeed, Alaa Makki, Shilpa Male, Ahmad Azam Malik, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Santi Martini, Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi, Prashant Mathur, Martin McKee, Ravi Mehrotra, Walter Mendoza, Ritesh G. Menezes, Endalkachew Worku Mengesha, Mohamed Kamal Mesregah, Tomislav Mestrovic, Junmei Miao Jonasson, Bartosz Miazgowski, Tomasz Miazgowski, Irmina Maria Michalek, Ted R. Miller, Hamed Mirzaei, Hamid Reza Mirzaei, Sanjeev Misra, Prasanna Mithra, Masoud Moghadaszadeh, Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad, Yousef Mohammad, Mokhtar Mohammadi, Seyyede Momeneh Mohammadi, Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Shafiu Mohammed, Nagabhishek Moka, Ali H. Mokdad, Mariam Molokhia, Lorenzo Monasta, Mohammad Ali Moni, Mohammad Amin Moosavi, Yousef Moradi, Paula Moraga, Joana Morgado-da-Costa, Shane Douglas Morrison, Abbas Mosapour, Sumaira Mubarik, Lillian Mwanri, Ahamarshan Jayaraman Nagarajan, Shankar Prasad Nagaraju, Chie Nagata, Mukhammad David Naimzada, Vinay Nangia, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Sreenivas Narasimha Swamy, Rawlance Ndejjo, Sabina O. Nduaguba, Ionut Negoi, Serban Mircea Negru, Sandhya Neupane Kandel, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Robina Khan Niazi, Chukwudi A. Nnaji, Nurulamin M. Noor, Virginia Nunez-Samudio, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam, Bogdan Oancea, Chimedsuren Ochir, Oluwakemi Ololade Odukoya, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, Andrew T. Olagunju, Babayemi Oluwaseun Olakunde, Emad Omar, Ahmed Omar Bali, Abidemi E. Emmanuel Omonisi, Sokking Ong, Obinna E. Onwujekwe, Hans Orru, Doris Ortega-Altamirano, Nikita Otstavnov, Stanislav S. Otstavnov, Mayowa O. Owolabi, P. A. Mahesh, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Keyvan Pakshir, Adrian Pana, Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Songhomitra Panda-Jonas, Shahina Pardhan, Eun-Cheol Park, Eun-Kee Park, Fatemeh Pashazadeh Kan, Harsh K. Patel, Jenil R. Patel, Siddhartha Pati, Sanjay M. Pattanshetty, Uttam Paudel, David M. Pereira, Renato B. Pereira, Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Julian David Pillay, Saeed Pirouzpanah, Farhad Pishgar, Indrashis Podder, Maarten J. Postma, Hadi Pourjafar, Akila Prashant, Liliana Preotescu, Mohammad Rabiee, Navid Rabiee, Amir Radfar, Raghu Anekal Radhakrishnan, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Ata Rafiee, Fakher Rahim, Shadi Rahimzadeh, Mosiur Rahman, Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Nazanin Rajai, Aashish Rajesh, Ivo Rakovac, Pradhum Ram, Kiana Ramezanzadeh, Kamal Ranabhat, Priyanga Ranasinghe, Chythra R. Rao, Sowmya J. Rao, Reza Rawassizadeh, Mohammad Sadegh Razeghinia, Andre M. N. Renzaho, Negar Rezaei, Nima Rezaei, Aziz Rezapour, Thomas J. Roberts, Jefferson Antonio Buendia Rodriguez, Peter Rohloff, Michele Romoli, Luca Ronfani, Gholamreza Roshandel, Godfrey M. Rwegerera, S. Manjula, Siamak Sabour, Basema Saddik, Umar Saeed, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Harihar Sahoo, Sana Salehi, Marwa Rashad Salem, Hamideh Salimzadeh, Mehrnoosh Samaei, Abdallah M. Samy, Juan Sanabria, Senthilkumar Sankararaman, Milena M. Santric-Milicevic, Yaeesh Sardiwalla, Arash Sarveazad, Brijesh Sathian, Monika Sawhney, Mete Saylan, Ione Jayce Ceola Schneider, Mario Sekerija, Allen Seylani, Omid Shafaat, Zahra Shaghaghi, Masood Ali Shaikh, Erfan Shamsoddin, Mohammed Shannawaz, Rajesh Sharma, Aziz Sheikh, Sara Sheikhbahaei, Adithi Shetty, Jeevan K. Shetty, Pavanchand H. Shetty, Kenji Shibuya, Reza Shirkoohi, K. M. Shivakumar, Velizar Shivarov, Soraya Siabani, Sudeep K. Siddappa Malleshappa, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Jasvinder A. Singh, Yitagesu Sintayehu, Valentin Yurievich Skryabin, Anna Aleksandrovna Skryabina, Matthew J. Soeberg, Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi, Houman Sotoudeh, Paschalis Steiropoulos, Kurt Straif, Ranjeeta Subedi, Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan, Iyad Sultan, Saima Sultana, Daniel Sur, Viktoria Szerencses, Miklos Szocska, Rafael Tabares-Seisdedos, Takahiro Tabuchi, Hooman Tadbiri, Amir Taherkhani, Ken Takahashi, Iman M. Talaat, Ker-Kan Tan, Vivian Y. Tat, Bemnet Amare A. Tedla, Yonas Getaye Tefera, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Fisaha Haile Tesfay, Gizachew Assefa Tessema, Rekha Thapar, Aravind Thavamani, Viveksandeep Thoguluva Chandrasekar, Nihal Thomas, Hamid Reza Tohidinik, Mathilde Touvier, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Eugenio Traini, Bach Xuan Tran, Khanh Bao Tran, Mai Thi Ngoc Tran, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Biruk Shalmeno Tusa, Irfan Ullah, Saif Ullah, Krishna Kishore Umapathi, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Era Upadhyay, Marco Vacante, Maryam Vaezi, Sahel Valadan Tahbaz, Diana Zuleika Velazquez, Massimiliano Veroux, Francesco S. Violante, Vasily Vlassov, Bay Vo, Victor Volovici, Giang Thu Vu, Yasir Waheed, Richard G. Wamai, Paul Ward, Yi Feng Wen, Ronny Westerman, Andrea Sylvia Winkler, Lalit Yadav, Seyed Hossein Yahyazadeh Jabbari, Lin Yang, Sanni Yaya, Taklo Simeneh Yazie Yazie, Yigizie Yeshaw, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Zabihollah Yousefi, Chuanhua Yu, Deniz Yuce, Ismaeel Yunusa, Vesna Zadnik, Fariba Zare, Mikhail Sergeevich Zastrozhin, Anasthasia Zastrozhina, Jianrong Zhang, Chenwen Zhong, Linghui Zhou, Cong Zhu, Arash Ziapour, Ivan R. Zimmermann, Christina Fitzmaurice, Christopher J. L. Murray, Lisa M. Force

Summary: The global burden of cancer is substantial and growing, with differences in burden based on Sociodemographic Index (SDI). The largest percentage increase in the numbers of cases and deaths occurred in the low and low-middle SDI quintiles from 2010 to 2019.

JAMA ONCOLOGY (2022)

Article Oncology

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 3.2022

David S. Ettinger, Douglas E. Wood, Dara L. Aisner, Wallace Akerley, Jessica R. Bauman, Ankit Bharat, Debora S. Bruno, Joe Y. Chang, Lucian R. Chirieac, Thomas A. D'Amico, Malcolm DeCamp, Thomas J. Dilling, Jonathan Dowell, Scott Gettinger, Travis E. Grotz, Matthew A. Gubens, Aparna Hegde, Rudy P. Lackner, Michael Lanuti, Jules Lin, Billy W. Loo, Christine M. Lovly, Fabien Maldonado, Erminia Massarelli, Daniel Morgensztern, Thomas Ng, Gregory A. Otterson, Jose M. Pacheco, Sandip P. Patel, Gregory J. Riely, Jonathan Riess, Steven E. Schild, Theresa A. Shapiro, Aditi P. Singh, James Stevenson, Alda Tam, Tawee Tanvetyanon, Jane Yanagawa, Stephen C. Yang, Edwin Yau, Kristina Gregory, Miranda Hughes

Summary: This passage introduces the recommended management for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines, with a focus on targeted therapies for patients with metastatic NSCLC and actionable mutations.

JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK (2022)

Article Oncology

UALCAN: An update to the integrated cancer data analysis platform

Darshan Shimoga Chandrashekar, Santhosh Kumar Karthikeyan, Praveen Kumar Korla, Henalben Patel, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Mohammad Athar, George J. Netto, Zhaohui S. Qin, Sidharth Kumar, Upender Manne, Chad J. Creighton, Sooryanarayana Varambally

Summary: UALCAN is a web portal for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing cancer genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data, providing researchers with valuable insights into gene, protein, and pathway alterations in cancer, as well as evaluating patient survival data.

NEOPLASIA (2022)

Review Oncology

Treatment landscape of triple-negative breast cancer - expanded options, evolving needs

Giampaolo Bianchini, Carmine De Angelis, Luca Licata, Luca Gianni

Summary: Recent advances in omics technologies have improved our understanding of the heterogeneity and microenvironment of triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs), supporting a view of this breast cancer subtype as an ecosystem that encompasses both intrinsic and extrinsic features of cancer cells. The authors of this Review describe the current and upcoming therapeutic landscape of TNBC and discuss how an integrated view of the TNBC ecosystem can provide improved opportunities for tailoring treatment.

NATURE REVIEWS CLINICAL ONCOLOGY (2022)

Article Oncology

The 2021 WHO Classification of Lung Tumors: Impact of Advances Since 2015

Andrew G. Nicholson, Ming S. Tsao, Mary Beth Beasley, Alain C. Borczuk, Elisabeth Brambilla, Wendy A. Cooper, Sanja Dacic, Deepali Jain, Keith M. Kerr, Sylvie Lantuejoul, Masayuki Noguchi, Mauro Papotti, Natasha Rekhtman, Giorgio Scagliotti, Paul van Schil, Lynette Sholl, Yasushi Yatabe, Akihiko Yoshida, William D. Travis

Summary: The 2021 WHO Classification of Thoracic Tumours focuses on the application of genetics and molecular pathology, providing specific classifications and diagnostic criteria for various tumors, while emphasizing new tumor features and concepts.

JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY (2022)

Article Oncology

Gastric Cancer, Version 2.2022

Jaffer A. Ajani, Thomas A. D'Amico, David J. Bentrem, Joseph Chao, David Cooke, Carlos Corvera, Prajnan Das, Peter C. Enzinger, Thomas Enzler, Paul Fanta, Farhood Farjah, Hans Gerdes, Michael K. Gibson, Steven Hochwald, Wayne L. Hofstetter, David H. Ilson, Rajesh N. Keswani, Sunnie Kim, Lawrence R. Kleinberg, Samuel J. Klempner, Jill Lacy, Quan P. Ly, Kristina A. Matkowskyj, Michael McNamara, Mary F. Mulcahy, Darryl Outlaw, Haeseong Park, Kyle A. Perry, Jose Pimiento, George A. Poultsides, Scott Reznik, Robert E. Roses, Vivian E. Strong, Stacey Su, Hanlin L. Wang, Georgia Wiesner, Christopher G. Willett, Danny Yakoub, Harry Yoon, Nicole McMillian, Lenora A. Pluchino

Summary: Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with over 95% being adenocarcinomas. It is often diagnosed at an advanced stage, leading to a poor prognosis. However, systemic therapy can alleviate symptoms, improve survival, and enhance quality of life. The implementation of biomarker testing has significantly impacted clinical practice and patient care. Targeted therapies have shown encouraging results in clinical trials. Palliative management is recommended for patients with unresectable or metastatic cancer.

JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK (2022)

Review Oncology

The emerging roles of circRNAs in cancer and oncology

Lasse S. Kristensen, Theresa Jakobsen, Henrik Hager, Jorgen Kjems

Summary: Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a novel class of primarily non-coding RNAs with increasingly recognized roles in cancer development and progression through diverse mechanisms of action. In this review, the authors summarize the current understanding of circRNA biogenesis, regulation, physiological functions and pathophysiological roles in cancer. They also discuss the clinical potential of circRNAs as biomarkers, therapeutic agents and drug targets in oncology, as well as the research controversies, technical issues, and biological knowledge gaps that need to be addressed.

NATURE REVIEWS CLINICAL ONCOLOGY (2022)

Review Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Combination strategies with PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: current advances and future directions

Ming Yi, Xiaoli Zheng, Mengke Niu, Shuangli Zhu, Hong Ge, Kongming Wu

Summary: Antibodies targeting PD-1/PD-L1 revive immune response against cancer cells, but the low response rate calls for combination therapies. Combining with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and other treatments can achieve better outcomes, and individualized combination selection is needed to overcome treatment resistance.

MOLECULAR CANCER (2022)

Article Oncology

Long-Term Outcomes With Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab or Nivolumab Alone Versus Ipilimumab in Patients With Advanced Melanoma

Jedd D. Wolchok, Vanna Chiarion-Sileni, Rene Gonzalez, Jean-Jacques Grob, Piotr Rutkowski, Christopher D. Lao, C. Lance Cowey, Dirk Schadendorf, John Wagstaff, Reinhard Dummer, Pier Francesco Ferrucci, Michael Smylie, Marcus O. Butler, Andrew Hill, Ivan Marquez-Rodas, John B. A. G. Haanen, Massimo Guidoboni, Michele Maio, Patrick Schoffski, Matteo S. Carlino, Celeste Lebbe, Grant McArthur, Paolo A. Ascierto, Gregory A. Daniels, Georgina Long, Tuba Bas, Corey Ritchings, James Larkin, F. Stephen Hodi

Summary: The 6.5-year results of the CheckMate 067 trial demonstrate durable clinical benefits with nivolumab plus ipilimumab or nivolumab monotherapy compared to ipilimumab alone in patients with advanced melanoma.

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY (2022)

Article Oncology

Five-Year Survival Outcomes From the PACIFIC Trial: Durvalumab After Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

David R. Spigel, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Jhanelle E. Gray, David Vicente, David Planchard, Luis Paz-Ares, Johan F. Vansteenkiste, Marina C. Garassino, Rina Hui, Xavier Quantin, Andreas Rimner, Yi-Long Wu, Mustafa Ozguroglu, Ki H. Lee, Terufumi Kato, Maike de Wit, Takayasu Kurata, Martin Reck, Byoung C. Cho, Suresh Senan, Jarushka Naidoo, Helen Mann, Michael Newton, Piruntha Thiyagarajah, Scott J. Antonia

Summary: The study examined the efficacy of consolidation durvalumab in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, showing significant improvements in overall survival and progression-free survival, with manageable safety. The 5-year follow-up data continued to demonstrate the positive effects of durvalumab on survival and disease progression.

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY (2022)

Article Oncology

Breast Cancer Statistics, 2022

Angela N. Giaquinto, Hyuna Sung, Kimberly D. Miller, Joan L. Kramer, Lisa A. Newman, Adair Minihan, Ahmedin Jemal, Rebecca L. Siegel

Summary: This article provides an update on female breast cancer statistics in the United States, including data on incidence, mortality, survival, and mammography screening. It shows that breast cancer incidence rates have increased over the past few decades, driven by localized-stage and hormone receptor-positive disease. However, breast cancer mortality rates have been steadily declining since 1989, although at a slower pace in recent years. Despite lower incidence rates, there remains a racial disparity in breast cancer mortality, with higher rates among Black women compared to White women.

CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS (2022)