Jama OncologyPub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4876
S Gail Eckhardt, Leonidas C Platanias
{"title":"Effects of the Oncology Industrial Complex on Academic Cancer Centers.","authors":"S Gail Eckhardt, Leonidas C Platanias","doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4876","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48661,"journal":{"name":"Jama Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":28.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jama OncologyPub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4890
Paul M Cinciripini, George Kypriotakis, Janice A Blalock, Maher Karam-Hage, Diane M Beneventi, Jason D Robinson, Jennifer A Minnix, Graham W Warren
{"title":"Survival Outcomes of an Early Intervention Smoking Cessation Treatment After a Cancer Diagnosis.","authors":"Paul M Cinciripini, George Kypriotakis, Janice A Blalock, Maher Karam-Hage, Diane M Beneventi, Jason D Robinson, Jennifer A Minnix, Graham W Warren","doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4890","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4890","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Smoking after a cancer diagnosis increases mortality and risk for a second cancer.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine the association between time of entry into a smoking cessation intervention following a cancer diagnosis and survival outcomes.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>Using a prospective cohort study design, patients with cancer who smoked and received cessation treatment were assessed at 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months following tobacco treatment onset. Survival outcomes of tobacco treatment were measured and compared among patients at the MD Anderson Cancer Center Tobacco Research and Treatment Program. Treatment occurred between January 1, 2006, and March 3, 2022. Patients were excluded if they died before the tobacco treatment ended, received their diagnosis more than 6 months after beginning cessation treatment, or lacked staging information. The data analysis took place from September 2023 to May 2024.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Cessation treatment consisted of 6 to 8 personalized counseling visits and 10 to 12 weeks of pharmacotherapy. More than 95% of visits were provided via telemedicine.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcomes were survival as recorded in the MD Anderson Cancer Center tumor registry and 7-day point prevalence abstinence at each follow-up.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The main analytical sample consisted of 4526 currently smoking patients diagnosed with cancer and receiving cessation treatment (2254 [49.8%] female; median [IQR] age, 55 [47-62] years). Survival over 15 years increased for those quitting smoking at 3 months (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 0.75 [95% CI, 0.67-0.83]), 6 months (aHR, 0.79 [95% CI, 0.71-0.88]), and 9 months (aHR, 0.85 [95% CI, 0.76-0.95]) of follow-up. The optimal survival outcomes were observed for patients who received tobacco treatment within 6 months of a cancer diagnosis. At the 75th percentile, their survival increased from 2.1 years (95% CI, 1.8-2.4 years) among continuing smokers (nonabstainers) vs 3.9 years (95% CI, 3.2-4.6 years) for patients who quit (abstainers). Similar but less pronounced outcomes were noted when tobacco treatment began within 6 months to 5 years following diagnosis, with survival at the 75th percentile of 4.8 years (95% CI, 4.3-5.3 years) for nonabstainers vs 6.0 years (95% CI, 5.1-7.2 years) for abstainers.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>The results of this prospective cohort study suggest that evidence-based smoking cessation treatment within 6 months following a cancer diagnosis maximizes survival benefit. This study supports smoking cessation as an important early clinical intervention for patients after being diagnosed with cancer.</p>","PeriodicalId":48661,"journal":{"name":"Jama Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":28.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11528342/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jama OncologyPub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4908
Jiatong Ding, Shuhang Wang, Ning Li
{"title":"Expanding Clinical Trial Accessibility in the Digital Era With Telemedicine.","authors":"Jiatong Ding, Shuhang Wang, Ning Li","doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48661,"journal":{"name":"Jama Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":28.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jama OncologyPub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4911
Wade T Swenson
{"title":"Expanding Clinical Trial Accessibility in the Digital Era With Telemedicine-Reply.","authors":"Wade T Swenson","doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48661,"journal":{"name":"Jama Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":28.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jama OncologyPub Date : 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4330
Jonathan M Loree, David Chan, Jennifer Lim, Heather Stuart, Nicolas Fidelman, Jonathan Koea, Jason Posavad, Meredith Cummins, Sarah Doucette, Sten Myrehaug, Boris Naraev, Dale L Bailey, Andrew Bellizzi, David Laidley, Veronica Boyle, Rachel Goodwin, Jaydi Del Rivero, Michael Michael, Janice Pasieka, Simron Singh
{"title":"Biomarkers to Inform Prognosis and Treatment for Unresectable or Metastatic GEP-NENs.","authors":"Jonathan M Loree, David Chan, Jennifer Lim, Heather Stuart, Nicolas Fidelman, Jonathan Koea, Jason Posavad, Meredith Cummins, Sarah Doucette, Sten Myrehaug, Boris Naraev, Dale L Bailey, Andrew Bellizzi, David Laidley, Veronica Boyle, Rachel Goodwin, Jaydi Del Rivero, Michael Michael, Janice Pasieka, Simron Singh","doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4330","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Evidence-based treatment decisions for advanced gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP-NENs) require individualized patient-centered decision-making that accounts for patient and cancer characteristics.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To create an accessible guidance document to educate clinicians and patients on biomarkers informing prognosis and treatment in unresectable or metastatic GEP-NENs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A multidisciplinary panel in-person workshop was convened to define methods. English language articles published from January 2016 to January 2023 in PubMed (MEDLINE) and relevant conference abstracts were reviewed to investigate prognostic and treatment-informing features in unresectable or metastatic GEP-NENs. Data from included studies were used to form evidence-based recommendations. Quality of evidence and strength of recommendations were determined using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations framework. Consensus was reached via electronic survey following a modified Delphi method.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>A total of 131 publications were identified, including 8 systematic reviews and meta-analyses, 6 randomized clinical trials, 29 prospective studies, and 88 retrospective cohort studies. After 2 rounds of surveys, 24 recommendations and 5 good clinical practice statements were developed, with full consensus among panelists. Recommendations focused on tumor and functional imaging characteristics, blood-based biomarkers, and carcinoid heart disease. A single strong recommendation was made for symptomatic carcinoid syndrome informing treatment in midgut neuroendocrine tumors. Conditional recommendations were made to use grade, morphology, primary site, and urinary 5-hydroxyindoleacetic levels to inform treatment. The guidance document was endorsed by the Commonwealth Neuroendocrine Tumour Collaboration and the North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>The study results suggest that select factors have sufficient evidence to inform care in GEP-NENs, but the evidence for most biomarkers is weak. This article may help guide management and identify gaps for future research to advance personalized medicine and improve outcomes for patients with GEP-NENs.</p>","PeriodicalId":48661,"journal":{"name":"Jama Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":28.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jama OncologyPub Date : 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4335
Celeste Manfredi, Antonio Franco, Francesco Ditonno, Eugenio Bologna, Leslie Claire Licari, Costantino Leonardo, Alessandro Antonelli, Cosimo De Nunzio, Edward E Cherullo, Marco De Sio, Riccardo Autorino
{"title":"Prevalence and Factors Associated With Prostate Cancer Among Transgender Women.","authors":"Celeste Manfredi, Antonio Franco, Francesco Ditonno, Eugenio Bologna, Leslie Claire Licari, Costantino Leonardo, Alessandro Antonelli, Cosimo De Nunzio, Edward E Cherullo, Marco De Sio, Riccardo Autorino","doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4335","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.4335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Evidence on prostate cancer (PCa) in transgender women is very limited; data are needed to reduce gender disparities in both PCa knowledge and health care.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the prevalence of PCa among transgender women in the US and assess the factors associated with PCa, and factors associated with biochemical recurrence (BCR) and bone metastases (BM) secondary to PCa in the transgender population.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>A retrospective cohort study was conducted in October 2023, covering the period between 2011 and 2022 (12-year analysis). The study was based on a large, all-payer claims, deidentified, US database (PearlDiver Mariner). Transgender women who were identified as male before assignment of transsexual status codes were included. Patients with PCa were detected in the transgender women population.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>PCa diagnosis was selected as primary outcome; BCR and BM were chosen as secondary outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 95 460 transgender women with a mean (SD) age of 52.5 (9.4) years were included. PCa was diagnosed in 589 individuals with a mean (SD) age of 66.8 (10.0) years (estimated prevalence, 0.62%; 95% CI, 0.54%-0.77%). Age (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 1.10; 95% CI, 1.08-1.12; P < .001) and family history (adjusted OR, 2.27; 95% CI, 1.60-4.92; P < .001) were positively associated with PCa in transgender women. Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) was negatively associated with PCa in transgender women (OR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.56-0.89; P < .001) but positively associated with BCR (OR, 1.83; 95% CI, 1.21-2.86; P < .001) and BM (OR, 3.96; 95% CI, 1.50-9.99; P < .001) in the transgender population with PCa.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This cohort study found that PCa appeared to be relatively uncommon in transgender women. GAHT may reduce the risk of PCa in transgender patients, but it may also increase the risk of BCR and BM in transgender women with PCa. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48661,"journal":{"name":"Jama Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":28.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11450580/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jama OncologyPub Date : 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.3927
Deborah C Marshall
{"title":"Moving the Needle on Equity in Prostate Cancer.","authors":"Deborah C Marshall","doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.3927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.3927","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48661,"journal":{"name":"Jama Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":28.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jama OncologyPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.2640
Min Hee Hong, Yoon Ji Choi, Hee Kyung Ahn, Sun Min Lim, Bhumsuk Keam, Dong-Wan Kim, Tae Min Kim, Jeonghwan Youk, Yu Jung Kim, Shinwon Hwang, Sangwoo Kim, Ju Won Kim, Hye Ryun Kim, Jin Hyoung Kang
{"title":"Lazertinib in EGFR-Variant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer With CNS Failure to Prior EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.","authors":"Min Hee Hong, Yoon Ji Choi, Hee Kyung Ahn, Sun Min Lim, Bhumsuk Keam, Dong-Wan Kim, Tae Min Kim, Jeonghwan Youk, Yu Jung Kim, Shinwon Hwang, Sangwoo Kim, Ju Won Kim, Hye Ryun Kim, Jin Hyoung Kang","doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.2640","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.2640","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>EGFR-variant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is associated with a high rate of central nervous system (CNS) metastases, even with treatment with first-generation or second-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate CNS activity with lazertinib, a third-generation EGFR TKI.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This multicenter single-arm, phase 2 nonrandomized controlled trial was conducted in South Korea and included patients with EGFR-variant NSCLC who had asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic brain metastases after unsuccessful treatment with first-generation or second-generation EGFR TKIs. Data were collected from June 2021 to April 2022, with a data cutoff date of December 15, 2022.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Lazertinib, 240 mg, once daily.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary end point was intracranial objective response rate (iORR) in the evaluable population according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours version 1.1 assessed by the investigators. Secondary end points included intracranial progression-free survival (iPFS) and iORR in patients with T790M-negative disease and isolated CNS progression as well as overall ORR, duration of response, intracranial duration of response, disease control rate, overall survival, cerebrospinal fluid penetration of lazertinib, and safety.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 40 included patients, 25 (63%) were women, and the median (range) age was 63 (29-85) years. A total of 38 patients were evaluable for tumor response, including 12 patients with leptomeningeal metastases. At data cutoff, the median (range) follow-up was 13.6 (2.9-17.7) months. The iORR for the evaluable population was 55% (21 of 38; 95% CI, 38.3-71.4); for patients with T790M-positive disease, 80% (4 of 5; 95% CI, 28.4-99.5); for patients with T790M-negative disease, 43% (9 of 21; 95% CI, 21.8-66.0); and for patients with T790M-unknown disease, 67% (8 of 12; 95% CI, 34.9-90.1). The median iPFS was 15.8 months (95% CI, 15.2-not reached) for the evaluable population, 15.2 months (95% CI, 4.2-not reached) for the T790M-positive subgroup, 15.4 months (95% CI, 7.9-not reached) for the T790M-negative subgroup, and 18.0 months (95% CI, 3.9-not reached) for the T790M-unknown subgroup. The cerebrospinal fluid penetration rate of lazertinib was 46.2% (95% CI, 10.0-49.6), providing further support for its mechanism of intracranial response. Most adverse events were grade 1 or 2.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this study, lazertinib had substantial CNS activity, regardless of T790M status, against the progression of intracranial metastases with or without leptomeningeal metastases after unsuccessful treatment with first-generation or second-generation EGFR TKIs in patients with metastatic EGFR-variant NSCLC. These results suggest that","PeriodicalId":48661,"journal":{"name":"Jama Oncology","volume":" ","pages":"1342-1351"},"PeriodicalIF":28.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11327907/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141983648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jama OncologyPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.2903
Casey Crump, Weiva Sieh
{"title":"Hidden Morbidity in Cancer Care-Mental Health in Spouses.","authors":"Casey Crump, Weiva Sieh","doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.2903","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.2903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48661,"journal":{"name":"Jama Oncology","volume":" ","pages":"1317-1318"},"PeriodicalIF":28.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141983647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}