Medical Oncology

ASCO Journal Club   

Journal Club Q&A done in partnership with ASCO the Journal of Clinical Oncology

Questions discussed in this category


Are there specific patient factors for which you would more preferentially use this regimen?

How does the changing landscape of first-line treatment impact your decision making for second line therapy?

Are there certain patient subgroups for whom you would use the IO+PARPi? Is there data from DUO-E regarding BRCA status and its potential impact on ...

If yes, would you apply this broadly or reserve the addition of IO to chemotherapy for patients with high-risk histologies (e.g., carcinosarcoma) or o...

Does your decision depend on MMR status? Would you use the same approach for neoadjuvant treatment?In light of relevant trials including RUBY, GY018, ...

DUO-E, GY-018, and RUBY included patients with stage III and IV endometrial cancer WITH measurable disease.Would your decision change based on the mis...

Are there patients for whom you would still reserve IO for salvage/recurrent setting (eg IO + lenvatinib)? Would you base this on MMR status or other ...

Dose-escalation RT trials have had mixed results in the past for advanced rectal cancer, while in the early rectal stage there is a tendency towards a...

How do you weigh definitive chemoRT vs minimally invasive surgical approach with neoadjuvant chemo followed by transanal excision, in light of results...

Are there specific patient populations in which you may feel comfortable with a patient selecting only one adjuvant therapy approach (tamoxifen vs RT)...

Did S1800a stratify by prior treatment response? Would you choose different 2L treatment for a patient who progresses rapidlly on pembro + platinum do...

Should patients with moderate penetrance pathogenic variants be managed similar to BRCA patients and consider risk reducing contralateral mastectomy?&...

Genes such as ATM, CHEK2, PALB2, RAD51C/D, BRIP1 seem to show some potential increased risk of ovarian cancer. Should these patients under prophylacti...

What about a higher penetrance PV such as PALB2? See JCO OGR 8/2021 by @Mark E. Robson discussing management of non-BRCA pathogenic va...

In a scenario where patient's other clinical/familial risk does not sufficiently qualify them? See JCO OGR 8/2021 by @Mark E. Robson discussing manag...

Data from the SOFT/TEXT trials showed clinical benefit in ovarian suppression + aromatase inhibition for high risk, premenopausal ...

Do you worry about the ability to collect stem cells (at the time of progression to MM) if someone with SMM has been on prolonged lenalidomide?

Would you be more or less likely to use a cisplatin-containing regimen if a patient had previously responded to chemoradiation with concurrent cisplat...

Should this be done at the time of recurrence or after failure of 1st line therapy for recurrence?

There are now five PD-1/PDL-1 inhibitors approved for metastatic bladder CA, one (Atezolizumab) as first-line therapy in cisplatin-ineligible patients...

Can you extrapolate the data on Durable Complete Response After Discontinuation of Pembrolizumab in Patients With Metastatic Melanoma to patients on a...

In this study, doses of 2mg/kg Q3wks, 10mg/kg Q3wks and 10mg/kg Q2wks were used. What did the majority of these patients in CR receive? 

Are you using ctDNA blood tests for targetable mutations at the time of diagnosis, at the time of disease progression, or not at all?

Based on 2-3% MSH2 mutation and 1% MLH1 mutation rates in metastatic disease regardless of castration sensitivity, should we be looking for this earli...


Papers discussed in this category


JCO Precision Oncology, 2017 Sep 29

Sci Rep, 2014 Sep 09

Medicine (Baltimore),

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2016-10-01

J. Clin. Oncol., 2018-07-01

J. Clin. Oncol., 2019 Oct 16

Lancet (London, England), 2017-01-07

The New England journal of medicine, 2017-03-16

J. Clin. Oncol., 2018-06-10

JCO Precision Oncology, 2017 May 31

Nature medicine, 2017-06

Oncotarget, 2016-08-16

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2016-05-10

JAMA Oncol, 2016 Mar

N. Engl. J. Med.,

Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol), 2016-12-01

The New England journal of medicine, 2009-05-14

Ann. Oncol., 2009-02-01

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2015-10-01

J. Clin. Oncol., 2011 Nov 21

Oncotarget,

Nature, 2017-04-26

Cancer discovery, 2017-12

Cancer discovery, 2016-10

J Clin Oncol, 2020 Oct 29

Semin Cell Dev Biol, 2011 Jul 28

Nat Med, 2019 Sep 30

The Lancet. Oncology, 2016-11

The New England journal of medicine, 2017-10-05

Lancet (London, England), 2017-10-21

Nature, 2013-07-11

The New England journal of medicine, 2015-10-29

Lancet (London, England), 2014-08-23

The New England journal of medicine, 2018-06-14

Lancet Oncol, 2019 May 20

J Clin Oncol, 2022 Jun 03

The New England journal of medicine, 2018-07-12

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2009-03-10

J. Clin. Oncol., 2009 Oct 05

Ann. Oncol.,

Cancer Res., 2010 Feb 02

Haematologica, 2019-04

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2015-12-15

The New England journal of medicine, 2011-12-29

The New England journal of medicine, 2006-01-05

Lancet Oncol, 2013 Sep

N Engl J Med, 2011 Dec 29

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2019-06-01

J. Clin. Oncol., 2019 Apr 19

N Engl J Med, 2016 Feb 25

The New England journal of medicine, 2018-12-27

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2018-06-10

J Immunother Cancer, 2019 Aug 22

Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2017-11-21

Cancer management and research, 2017

Blood cancer journal, 2018-06-12

J. Clin. Oncol., 2013 Oct 21

Leukemia, 2013-08

J. Clin. Oncol., 2019 Oct 25

Leuk. Lymphoma, 2011 Feb 08

Cancer,

Leukemia, 2009-10

J. Clin. Oncol., 2021 Aug 10

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2015-03-01

J Clin Oncol, 2021 Aug 18

Lancet Oncol, 2010 Dec 07

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2012-04-20

Lancet (London, England), 2016-02-27

Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2017-10

J Thorac Oncol, 2017 Oct 31

Lancet (London, England), 2019-05-04

Diseases of the colon and rectum, 2019 Jun

J Clin Oncol, 2022 Aug 18

JAMA Surg, 2019 Jan 01

The Lancet. Oncology, 2015-11

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2012 Jul 03

N Engl J Med, 2023 Mar 27

N Engl J Med, 2023 Mar 27

Journal of clinical oncology : Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2023 Oct 21

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2018-07-10

Lancet (London, England), 2023 Oct 20

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2023 Oct 23

J Clin Oncol, 2023 May 16