News & Updates

Liver cancer is a major cause of death globally and in Hong Kong. Both first- and second-line treatment of the disease have evolved considerably over recent years, following the approval of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). At present, over half of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients require second-line treatment, yet data on therapies administered after immunotherapy are lacking. This article summarizes locally reported findings on use of cabozantinib and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in HCC patients who progressed on immunotherapy.

Pregnancies in women who have survived cervical cancer or leukaemia should be considered high-risk due to the potential for multiple severe obstetric complications, as reported in a study.

Perioperative pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy confers survival benefit in individuals with locally advanced gastric and gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ) cancer in the final analysis of the phase III KEYNOTE-585 trial.

Once-only screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy appears to provide prolonged protection against colorectal cancer (CRC), reducing both incidence and mortality rates for up to 2 decades, according to the updated results of the UK Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Screening Trial (UKFSST).

Treatment with dostarlimab combined with carboplatin‒paclitaxel significantly improves overall survival (OS) among patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer (EC), with no new safety signals, results of the RUBY trial have shown.

In a post hoc analysis of the phase III MIRASOL (GOG 3045/ENGOT-ov55) trial, mirvetuximab soravtansine (MIRV) continues to demonstrate clinically meaningful improvements in survival and objective response rate (ORR) in women with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (PROC) with high folate receptor-alpha (FRα) expression who necessitated dose modifications.