November 24, 2025

ASTRO Publishes First Clinical Guideline on Radiation Therapy for Gastric Cancer

A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is the first to focus on radiation therapy for patients with gastric cancer. The recommendations outline radiation the...

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January 02, 2025

FDA Approves Nivolumab and Hyaluronidase-nvhy for Subcutaneous Injection

On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved nivolumab and hyaluronidase-nvhy (Opdivo Qvantig) for subcutaneous injection across approved adult, solid tumor nivolumab indicatio...

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December 09, 2024

Adding Chemoradiation in Perioperative Gastric Cancer Treatment Improves Pathologic Response Rates Without Survival Benefit

Adding chemoradiation to perioperative chemotherapy improves pathologic complete response rates in patients with resectable gastric cancer but does not extend overall survival, according to data prese...

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April 22, 2024

Bispecific Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Improves Survival in Patients With Gastric Cancer, Regardless of PD-L1 Status

The PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody cadonilimab plus chemotherapy improved progression-free and overall survival in patients with untreated, HER2-negative, locally advanced or metastatic gastric or ga...

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May 09, 2024

Bispecific Antibody Plus Chemotherapy Improves Survival in Patients With Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer

Treatment with the first-in-class PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody cadonilimab plus XELOX (capecitabine, oxaliplatin) chemotherapy demonstrated a survival advantage for patients with advanced gastric o...

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June 13, 2023

Study Illuminates Potential Marked Disparities in Federal Cancer Research Funding

Investigators have found that federal cancer research funding tends to be allocated more heavily toward cancers that occur more often in non-Hispanic White patients than those that occur more frequent...

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September 24, 2025

Endoscopic Surveillance for Barrett’s Esophagus: Two-Year Results

"The burden of Barrett’s surveillance on endoscopic resources can be significant, and it may be appropriate to lengthen the surveillance interval or consider offering at-need endoscopy to well-informed patients."

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August 04, 2021

Is Tumor Mutational Burden Predictive of Survival Outcomes in Solid Tumors Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors?

In a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine, Benoit Rousseau, MD, PhD, and Michael B. Foote, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), and colleagues presented evidence...

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May 13, 2024

Oral Rinse Could Provide Early Screening for Gastric Cancer

A simple oral rinse may lead to early detection of gastric cancer, according to new findings presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2024.

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