{"title":"Total neoadjuvant therapy approach in rectal adenocarcinoma.","authors":"Sandra Kang, Christina Wu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer has improved over the years owing to advancements in surgical techniques and chemoradiation, developing into a multidisciplinary approach that has contributed to markedly reduced rates of local recurrence. Despite these advances, however, distant metastatic recurrence continues to be the main cause of rectal cancer-related death. Unfortunately, the former standard of care of neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy is still associated with significant morbidity and distant relapse rates. Many trials have studied the optimal sequence, timing, and duration of the individual components of treatment, more recently shifting both chemoradiation and systemic chemotherapy to the preoperative setting in an approach termed total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT). Some of the potential advantages of TNT include improved adherence to treatment, early treatment of micrometastases, and tumor downstaging, with the possibility of observation instead of surgery for those patients with a complete clinical response. This review provides the historical context for the shift to TNT in the treatment paradigm and discusses the critical clinical trials supporting the newer strategy. It also addresses the recent focus on the personalization of care that TNT makes possible by allowing the selective omission of radiation therapy and nonoperative management with a watch-and-wait strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":520589,"journal":{"name":"Clinical advances in hematology & oncology : H&O","volume":" ","pages":"711-718"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39646047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TNBC vs non-TNBC: A retrospective review of differences in mean age, family history, smoking history, and stage at diagnosis.","authors":"Khurram Tariq, Arezo Farhangi, Fauzia Rana","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study was designed to compare mean age, ethnicity, smoking history, family history of breast cancer, and stage at diagnosis in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) vs non-TNBC at an inner city university program.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We reviewed data in our tumor registry on patients seen between January 2000 and December 2005, and identified a total of 445 patients with various subtypes of breast cancers. Of these, 342 patients met our study criteria. Thirty-nine patients had TNBC and 303 had non-TNBC.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean age at diagnosis was 59.87 ± 15.67 years for TNBC and 60.09 ± 13.98 years for non-TNBC (P=.9272). TNBC was more common in black than in white patients (58.97% vs 35.90%; OR, 2.755; P=.004), and non-TNBC was more common in white than in black patients (57.76% vs 39.27%). There was not a statistically significant difference in past or present smoking between the TNBC and non-TNBC patients (20.51% vs 27.72%; P=.4385). Family history of breast cancer was not statistically related to TNBC status: a positive family history was reported in 30.77% of TNBC patients vs 33.33% of non-TNBC patients (P=.8384), no family history was reported in 51.28% of TNBC patients vs 51.82% of non-TNBC patients, and family history was unknown in 17.95% of TNBC patients vs 14.85% of non-TNBC patients. Pathologic stage at the time of diagnosis was as follows for TNBC vs non-TNBC patients: stage 0, 15.79% vs 11.37% (P=.4332); stage I, 34.21% vs 30.98% (P=.6890); stage II, 28.98% vs 37.25% (P=.3205); stage III, 18.42% vs 17.25% (P=.8591); and stage IV, 3.63% vs 3.14% (P=.8651).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We found that in our patient population, black women were significantly more likely to have TNBC than non-TNBC, and white women were more likely to have non-TNBC than TNBC.</p>","PeriodicalId":520589,"journal":{"name":"Clinical advances in hematology & oncology : H&O","volume":" ","pages":"377-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32487125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mining the internet for drug information.","authors":"Nigam Shah","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520589,"journal":{"name":"Clinical advances in hematology & oncology : H&O","volume":" ","pages":"391-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32487128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Malignancies associated with epstein-barr virus: pathobiology, clinical features, and evolving treatments.","authors":"Natalia Neparidze, Jill Lacy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with a wide variety of B-cell-derived lymphoid neoplasms, including Burkitt lymphoma, lymphomas arising in immunocompromised patients (post-transplant and HIV-associated lymphomas), and Hodgkin lymphoma. In addition, EBV has been linked to some T-cell lymphomas (angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, extranodal nasal-type natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, and other rare histotypes), nasopharyngeal cancer, and a subset of gastric cancers. Advances in our understanding of the pathobiology of EBV oncogenesis, including the transforming and immunogenic properties of the virus and the role of immune dysregulation, have provided the rationale for new treatment strategies. Emerging EBV-specific therapeutic approaches include activation of lytic viral infection combined with antiviral drugs, inhibition of EBV-induced oncogenic cellular signaling pathways, adoptive EBV-specific T-cell therapies, and EBV vaccines. This review summarizes the pathobiology, clinical features, and treatment of EBV-associated malignancies, including new and evolving therapies focused on exploiting the pathobiology of EBV.</p>","PeriodicalId":520589,"journal":{"name":"Clinical advances in hematology & oncology : H&O","volume":" ","pages":"358-71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32487124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advances in the management of ITP in children and adults.","authors":"Paul Imbach","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520589,"journal":{"name":"Clinical advances in hematology & oncology : H&O","volume":" ","pages":"384-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32487126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The argument for breast cancer screening.","authors":"Otis W Brawley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520589,"journal":{"name":"Clinical advances in hematology & oncology : H&O","volume":" ","pages":"407, 410-1, e412-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32594414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Five Days At Memorial by Dr Sheri Fink.","authors":"Bruce D Cheson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520589,"journal":{"name":"Clinical advances in hematology & oncology : H&O","volume":" ","pages":"352"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32487123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endocrine therapy for advanced breast cancer.","authors":"Payal D Shah, Maura N Dickler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The demonstrated efficacy of pharmacologic antiestrogen therapy in treating hormone receptor-positive breast cancer has changed the landscape of treatment for the majority of women with metastatic disease, providing them with a well-tolerated therapeutic alternative to surgical oophorectomy and chemotherapy. A multitude of clinical trials have evaluated the various endocrine agents alone or in combination. Studies have established ovarian suppression as key for the management of premenopausal metastatic breast cancer patients, and aromatase inhibitor therapy as first-line treatment for their postmenopausal counterparts. Fulvestrant (Faslodex, AstraZeneca) has also been found to be efficacious and has been studied in the first-line and second-line settings. De novo and acquired endocrine therapy resistance represent a major challenge to the ongoing treatment of patients with hormone receptor-positive disease; strategies to circumvent or delay resistance, including the use of combination endocrine therapy and endocrine therapy with agents targeting various growth-factor signaling pathways, represent an active area of investigation. This review provides a summary of the various landmark trials that have established our current standards of practice in the management of patients with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer. A discussion of future directions and ongoing studies is also provided. </p>","PeriodicalId":520589,"journal":{"name":"Clinical advances in hematology & oncology : H&O","volume":" ","pages":"214-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32487110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}