Gynecologic Cancer
Diminutio
Oncologists may be too quick to refer patients to palliative care
Integrating palliative care into routine cancer care need not always require a specialty palliative care nurse.
Feature
Cancer clinics begin to accommodate patients demanding new cancer detection tests
Sales teams are making a big push for multicancer early detection tests.
Latest News
Cervical cancer rise in White women: A ‘canary in the coal mine’
“If rising incidence is not for localized-stage disease, but for advanced stages, that means it’s attributable to lack of screening.”
Perspectives
Diagnosed too late
We take a course in giving bad news, but every doctor has his or her own approach.
News
FDA requests more restrictions on ovarian cancer drugs
Several companies have already withdrawn their respective PARP inhibitors for heavily pretreated patients with ovarian cancer.
Commentary
Discontinuing immunotherapy: Is the infusion bag half empty or half full?
Clinical trials of immunotherapy or chemoimmunotherapy have generally terminated treatment in nonprogressing patients after 2 years.
Opinion
Update on high-grade vulvar interepithelial neoplasia
Treatment of high-grade vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia should be driven by the clinical characteristics of the vulvar lesions, patients’...
News
FDA grants accelerated approval for new treatment of female cancers
Eligible patients for mirvetuximab soravtansine include those with folate receptor alpha, chemo resistant ovarian, fallopian and peritoneal...
From the Journals
Analysis affirms that giving birth protects against endometrial cancer
Researchers found that more live births has a protective effect on the risk of endometrial cancer, even when accounting for other risk factors.
Conference Coverage
How AI is, or will soon be, relevant in radiation oncology
Radiation oncologists at ASTRO 2022 discuss practical applications of AI, and new research findings.
From the Journals
Chronic stress, especially race related, may hasten cancer death
High allostatic load was associated with an 80% increased risk of cancer death among all study participants.