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Seven decades of chemotherapy clinical trials: a pan-cancer social network analysis
Cancer Medical research, Randomized controlled trials, Clinical trial design
Clinical trials are crucial in establishing cancer care standards, but the social dynamics among researchers in this field have not been extensively studied. A social network analysis of authors involved in chemotherapy-based prospective trials from 1946 to 2018 reveals significant insights. The …
Oct 16th • 12 mins read
Liquid biopsy in oncology: a consensus statement of the Spanish Society of Pathology and the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology
Liquid biopsy, ctDNA, Oncology, Genomic profling, Precision medicine
The proportion of cancer patients with tumors having potentially targetable genomic alterations is increasing. Diagnosing these alterations can lead to tailored treatments and provide additional predictive information on immunotherapy efficacy. In many cases, initial tissue biopsies are ina…
Sep 26th • 17 mins read
Liquid biopsy in oncology: a consensus statement of the Spanish Society of Pathology and the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology
Liquid biopsy, ctDNA, Oncology, Genomic profling, Precision medicine
The proportion of cancer patients with tumours that have targetable genomic alterations is increasing, which is crucial for tailored treatment and predicting immunotherapy efficacy. Initial tissue biopsies are often inadequate for precision oncology, and obtaining new tumour tissues at pr…
Sep 26th • 16 mins read
Towards a novel approach guiding the decision-making process for anticancer treatment in patients with advanced cancer: framework for systemic anticancer treatment with palliative intent
Patient-centered cancer care, Advanced cancer decision-making, Stepwise decisional process, Palliative care domains, Illness understanding in oncology, Symptom control in cancer, End-of-life preparation, Patient-physician interaction, SACT-PI Decision Fra
Patient-centered decisions in advanced cancer care demand a step-wise decisional process, not a single decision act. The decision process includes key palliative care domains, e.g. illness understanding, symptom control, or end-of-life preparation. Patients' attitudes, beliefs, hopes, patient-ph…
Jun 1st • 25 mins read
Application of Value Framework to Phase III Trials of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Esophageal and Gastric Cancer
esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, comparative effectiveness research, outcome assessment, antineoplastic agents, immunotherapy
Immunotherapy checkpoint inhibitors are FDA-approved for first-line metastatic esophageal and gastric cancer, but not all scenarios benefit from non-selective chemo-immunotherapy application. ASCO Net Health scores were consistently higher in esophageal cancer trials compared to gastric cancer tr…
Jan 13th • 8 mins read