BJMO - volume 15, issue 8, december 2021
W. Lybaert MD
ESMO Congress 2021 was held from the 16th till the 21st of September, once again in a virtual format. During this congress, more immunotherapy data were shown in the neoadjuvant setting of resectable head and neck cancer, in the concomitant radiotherapy setting and first-line recurrent/metastatic disease. In addition, a nomogram was created for patients undergoing concomitant chemoradiotherapy that can be used as a web-based tool for our clinic. Other data underscore that treatment of elderly patients with a head and neck cancer nowadays require a comprehensive geriatric assessment. In this report, these and other important studies related to head-and-neck cancer will be discussed, together with some comments on the clinical relevance of these findings.
(BELG J MED ONCOL 2021;15(8):421–7)
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H. Dedecker MD, L-A. Teuwen MD, PhD, T. Vandamme MD, PhD, H. Prenen MD, PhD, M. Peeters MD, PhD
The 2021 edition of ESMO was held virtually between the 16th and 21st of September 2021. The main goal of this overview is to highlight the most striking abstracts in the field of digestive oncology for daily clinical practice. First, the upper gastro-intestinal tract tumours will be discussed, followed by an overview of the congress highlights related to cancers of the lower gastro-intestinal tract.
(BELG J MED ONCOL 2021;15(5):415–20)
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J. Blokken PhD, PharmD, T. Feys MBA, MSc
At this year’s ESMO meeting, much of the attention in the field of lung cancer went to early-stage nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with interesting results from the Lung Art, COAST, GEMSTONE-301 and IMpower010 trials. For metastatic NSCLC, immunotherapy again walked away with much of the attention. In addition to this, several studies investigated the potential of combining anti-EGFR and anti-angiogenic agents, while others investigated novel targeted agents, including trastuzumab deruxtecan, poziotinib, plinabulin and datopotamab deruxtecan. Finally, we will highlight the most interesting results in other thoracic malignancies, including malignant pleural mesothelioma, extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, thymoma and thymic carcinoma.
(BELG J MED ONCOL 2021;15(8):406–14)
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T. Vermassen PhD, S. Rottey MD, PhD, D. De Maeseneer MD
ESMO 2021 again provided a variety of innovations in the management of genitourinary cancers. In prostate cancer (PCa), results of STAMPEDE suggest that early intensification of adjuvant therapy with ADT and abiraterone could become a new standard in high-risk non-metastatic PCa (currently off-label). Studies in metastatic castration-resistant PCa (mCRPC) indicated promising activity of 77Lu-PSMA-617 plus pembrolizumab and of cabozantinib plus atezolizumab. In the field of kidney cancer, patient-reported outcome data of KEYNOTE-564 further support adjuvant pembrolizumab as a new standard of care. Other studies in renal cell cancer (RCC) showed that treatment breaks during tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy may be highly cost-effective without an effect on patient survival, that antibiotics can severely compromise survival outcomes in nivolumab-treated metastatic RCC patients and that therapeutic targeting of HIF-2α and VEGF may be effective in patients with metastatic clear cell RCC. In addition, cabozantinib proved to be safe and effective in patients with metastatic collecting ducts carcinoma. In urothelial cancer, dose-dense MVAC was identified as a safe and effective neoadjuvant treatment option for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). In metastatic urothelial cancer the addition of cetrelimab to erdafitinib seemed to increase treatment effects, while the EphrinB2-blocking agent sEphB4-HAS was found to have synergistic activity with pembrolizumab. Finally, an exploratory analysis of the pivotal IMvigor 130 trial found that cisplatin but not carboplatin seems to enhance anti-tumour immunity.
(BELG J MED ONCOL 2021;15(8):398–405)
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