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An investigational blood-based test performs satisfactorily for the early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC), having met all prespecified primary endpoints in the large PREEMPT CRC trial.

Patients with metastatic prostate cancer can safely engage in intense exercise training to improve survival outcomes, suggests a study presented at AACR 2024.

In young breast cancer survivors harbouring BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants, using assisted reproductive techniques (ART) to conceive did not appear to negatively affect maternal or pregnancy outcomes, findings from an international retrospective cohort study suggest.

The intermittent 48-h “gap” schedule of olaparib in combination with carboplatin/paclitaxel and anthracycline chemotherapy provides substantial survival benefits in patients with germline BRCA-mutated breast cancer (gBRCA) regardless of their pathological complete response (pCR) status, results of the PARTNER trial have shown.

Adding the PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody cadonilimab to chemotherapy improves overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in individuals with untreated, HER2-negative, locally advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ) cancer, including patients with PD-L1–low tumours, according to the interim results of the phase III COMPASSION-15 trial.

Adding immunotherapy to the first-line treatment for advanced and metastatic endometrial cancer may significantly improve some oncologic outcomes, particularly within the mismatch repair deficiency/microsatellite instability-hypermutated (MMRd/MSI-H) subset, suggests a study.

A large percentage of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) respond to the bispecific antibody linvoseltamab, with deep and durable responses seen even in the high-risk subgroups, according to data from the phase I/II LINKER-MM1 trial.