Medical oncology journal with a specific interest on targeted agents, immune therapies, personalised medicine, molecular pathology, bioinformatics, and more.
We are happy to announce that the Annals of Oncology Impact Factor has reached an all-time high 📈 at 51.769, ranking the journal
#5
out of 245 in the Oncology category!
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In Annals of Oncology, results from the German 🇩🇪
#PrecisionMedicine
🧬🎯💊 NCT/DKTK MASTER trial inform on the association of cancer perdisposing genes and rare cancer
Artificial intelligence as a tool to identify predictive biomarker in immuno-oncology:
this systematic review by
@PrelajArsela
and coll. in Annals of Oncology encompasses genomics, radiomics, pathomics, real-world and multimodal data
Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) has a low prevalence but a high mortality rate.
In Annals of Oncology, the
@myESMO
Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of CUP:
Out in Annals of Oncology, the
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clinical practice guidelines for the management of bone health in cancer (including early breast cancer and prostate cancer):
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#pcsm
Now available in Annals of Oncology, the
@myESMO
Clinical Practice Guideline for the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer
Letter to the Editor in Annals of Oncology reporting the successful treatment of a patient with cancer and severe pulmonary manifestations of
#COVID19
with Tocilizumab, anti-IL6 receptor moAb used for treating CRS seen with CAR-Ts
@MichotJM
@GustaveRoussy
Now available
#OpenAccess
in Annals of Oncology, recommendations by the
@myESMO
Precision Medicine Working Group for the use of NGS for patients with advanced cancer in 2024
🧬Expanding indications
🧬CUP & tissue-agnostic situations
🧬Best practice
📣Just out in Annals of Oncology, the
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for fertility preservation and post-treatment pregnancies in post-pubertal patients with cancer
@matteolambe
@fedrophd
@IDemeestere
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) has emerged as a tissue-agnostic predictive biomarker for immunotherapy. Empirical variability exists across panel assays. The TMB Consortium investigated factors contributing to variability in this
#OpenAccess
paper
On June 16th 2020,
@FDAOncology
granted accelerated approval to pembrolizumab for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with tumor mutational burden-high 🧬(TMB-H). In Annals of Oncology a pro and con editorial debate
Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of our brand new website! The January 2020 edition of Annals of Oncology has also arrived. All articles in the issue are free to read
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Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and malignant phaeochromocytoma are rare malignancies that require multidisciplinary management. You can find the ESMO-EURACAN Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up in Annals of Oncology:
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TMB-H is approved as a histology-agnostic biomarker for therapy with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. This study published
#openaccess
in Annals of Oncology shows that context matters: response is not universal in all tumor types
@MDAndersonNews
@NKI_nl
NTRK gene fusions 🧬 are oncogenic and highly actionable 💊. Just out and
#openaccess
in Annals of Oncology: expert recommendations from the World Sarcoma Network for the diagnosis and management of TRK fusion sarcomas
@DrSarcoma
@jeanyvesblay
In Annals of Oncology, a report on the STING (NCT04932525) study in which patients with advanced cancer had molecular profiling using a ctDNA sequencing assay 🩸🧬 and were assigned matched therapy 💊 as per a molecular tumor board.
@GustaveRoussy
@ArBayle
Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is defined as metastatic cancer for which identification of the primary site was not possible and accounts for 2% to 5% of cancer cases.
Results of a phase 2 study of Nivolumab in CUP (including biomarker analyses) 👇
Following the presentation at the
@myESMO
Virtual Plenary, the OS analyses from the OlympiA phase III trial of adjuvant olaparib in patients with gBRCA1/2 & high risk, early breast cancer are now available
#OpenAccess
in Annals of Oncology
#bcsm
ctDNA 🩸🧬🧪 analyses as a predictive biomarker in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer: the association of ctDNA dynamics with RCB during neoadjuvant therapy in the TBCRC 030 clinical trial
@DFCI_BreastOnc
@broadinstitute
#bcsm
The use of NGS on DNA🧬 from tissue or liquid biopsies is now well established in the management of patients with cancer. In this Letter to the Editor,
@ArBayle
and coll. present the data from cases tested with both modalities in PRISM 🇫🇷
Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) can occur more than 1 year after starting anti-PD1 therapy. This manuscript describes the characteristics and course of delayed irAEs in a series of 118 patients treated for melanoma
@ProfGLongMIA
@sandrineaspesla
In this new review in Annals of Oncology,
@FCortiula
and coll. discuss immunotherapy in unresectable stage III NSCLC:
✅State of the art and rationale
✅Treatment synergisms
✅Ongoing clinical trials
✅Unmet needs and future biomarkers
#LCSM
Early detection could improve cure rates, mainly in cancers without screening modalities.
📢 Just out in Annals of Oncology : Clinical validation of a targeted methylation-based multi-cancer early
detection test 🩸🧬 using an independent validation set
In Annals of Oncology, the
@myESMO
Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of biliary tract cancer
@ArndtVogel
@DucreuxMichel
Just out in Annals of Oncology, results of Pooled analyses from four 1L Nivolumab + Ipilimumab studies in NSCLC including landmark analyses of OS by response status at 6 months and by tumor-burden reduction
#LCSM
With the increase 📈 in the number of approved targeted therapies 🎯💊 ,
@VPrasadMDMPH
and coll. evaluated the uptake and response to genome-targeted oncology drugs in the US using mortality data from
@AmericanCancer
and the
@FDAOncology
labels
In Press in Annals of Oncology: after correction for clonal hematopoiesis, liquid biopsies using ctDNA dynamics 🧪🧬 post-resection of esophageal adenocarcinoma provides prognostic information that could potentially inform adapted therapeutic strategies
Annals of Oncology manuscript on data from three hospitals in Wuhan, China, describing the clinical characteristics of patients with cancer infected by
#COVID19
#Covid_19
Now available in Annals of Oncology, the
@myESMO
clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of anal cancer, a rare disease accounting for less than 1% of all cancers
Both somatic and germline genomic alterations 🧬 can guide management in solid tumors 🎯💊
This original article available
#openaccess
shows that 10.5% of pathogenic germline variants in clinically relevant genes can be missed by tumor-only sequencing.
A HLA-corrected TMB algorithm (TMB in combination with loss of heterozygosity of HLA) to better select patients who may benefit from immunotherapy. Read this
#EditorsChoice
#openaccess
paper in Annals of Oncology
#LCSM
#ImmunoOnc
Systemic anticancer therapy-induced peripheral and central neurotoxicity: ESMO–EONS–EANO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, prevention, treatment and follow-up
@myESMO
@EANOassociation
Sacituzumab Govitecan (SG), an anti-Trop2 ADC, is approved by the
@FDAOncology
for metastatic TNBC. Just out
#openaccess
in Annals of Oncology: encouraging activity for SG in patients with pretreated HR+/HER2- MBC
#bcsm
@ABhealer108
@stolaney1
De-intensification of cancer treatments is an important field of clinical research in disease settings that have seen an improvement in patient outcomes.
@myESMO
via the Precision Medicine WG proposes a 3-tier classification to guide these efforts
@darioT_
Just out and
#openaccess
in Annals of Oncology: Mechanisms of Resistance to Selective RET Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in RET Fusion-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
#lcsm
@StephenVLiu
@LeciaSequist
Nivolumab + ipilimumab improved OS vs chemo as 1st line treatment for unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma in the CheckMate 743 ph 3 study.
Updated data with 3-year follow-up have been published
#openaccess
in Annals of Oncology
@peters_solange
❓Can PARP inhibition improve overall survival (OS) in HRD+ newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer?
👉The prespecified final OS analysis from the PAOLA-1/ENGOT-ov25 study testing olaparib + bevacizumab 1L maintenance is reported in Annals of Oncology
The quest for a pan-cancer predictive biomarker of ICB benefit beyond TMB-H continues.
@barechey
and coll. performed a pan-cancer gene expression meta-analysis identifying PredictIO, a gene expression signature with consistent predictive potential.
➡️
Liquid biopsies using ctDNA 🩸🧪🧬as a predictor of outcome during and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for early
#BreastCancer
:
❌on-treatment ctDNA+ was associated with residual disease
✅post-therapy ctDNA- was associated with a better outcome
#bcsm
Multiple driver alterations are drug targets in advanced NSCLC 🫁. With the emergence of allele-specific KRAS inhibitors,
@jia_luo
and coll. investigate clinicopathologic, genomic, & immunophenotypic characteristics of NSCLC with KRAS G12D mutations
#LCSM
The Avelumab/Axitinib combo was approved for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the 1st line setting following the results of JAVELIN Renal 101. Updated efficacy data are reported in Annals of Oncology
@DrChoueiri
@AlbigesL
#KidneyCancer
In the PROMISE-meso randomised phase III trial now published in Annals of Oncology, Pembrolizumab does not improve PFS nor OS over single-agent chemotherapy in relapsed malignant pleural mesothelioma
@DrSanjayPopat
@peters_solange
We are pleased to reveal Annals of Oncology’s new Impact Factor is 13.926! We’ve created a collection of highly cited articles which contributed to the rise to explore online
@myESMO
The
@FDAOncology
approved Dabrafenib + Trametinib in anaplastic thyroid cancer with a BRAF V600E mutation based on results from the phase 2 ROAR "basket" trial.
Updated results including long-term survival are now available
#openaccess
👇
@VivekSubbiah
Can acetaminophen, a widely used analgesic, impact the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)?
@AItalianoMD
and coll. studied the correlation of acetaminophen exposure with clinical outcome in 3 independent cohorts of patients treated with ICIs
The pivotal study of Tucatinib (HER2CLIMB) in patients with HER2+ metastatic breast cancer allowed the inclusion of patients with untreated and progressive brain metastases.
The final overall survival analysis is available👇
@curijoey
@DrEricWiner
#bcsm
Do not miss this
#EditorsChoice
paper in the November 2020 issue of Annals of Oncology - Recommendations for the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) 🧬 for patients with metastatic cancers: a report from the
@myESMO
Precision Medicine Working Group
The IMpassion130 trial of atezolizumab + nab-paclitaxel in metastatic TNBC led to the regulatory approval of the first immunotherapy in
#BreastCancer
. PROs analyses from the phase III study now published in the May 2020 issue of Annals of Oncology
#bcsm
Just out in Annals of Oncology 📣, does androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) 💊 have a protective effect against infection with
#COVID19
🦠? Data from the Veneto region 🇮🇹 and the biological rationale behind this hypothesis in this free access manuscript:
Post-operative chemoradiotherapy in the US and perioperative chemotherapy in Europe have been the standards for the treatment of gastric cancer. The CRITICS study published in Annals of Oncology randomly allocated patients to one of both strategies:
❓Can single-agent or dual immunotherapy improve outcomes compared to the EXTREME regimen (platinum-based chemo + cetuximab) as 1st-line treatment for R/M HNSCC?
➡️Results of the KESTREL randomized Ph3 trial are available
#OpenAccess
in Annals of Oncology
RET fusions are rare but highly actionable genomic 🧬 alterations in NSCLC & other tumor types.
In Annals of Oncology,
@GriesingerFrank
and coll. report an updated analysis on patients with RET fusion+ NSCLC from the ARROW multi-cohort phase I/II study
In Annals of Oncology, genomic characterization 🧬of HR+ breast cancer in very young women enrolled in SOFT shed light on unfavourable prognostic features potentially informing future therapeutic strategies
@LoiSher
@etop_ibcsg
#bcsm
Neoantigen prediction and computational perspectives towards clinical benefit: recommendations from the
@myESMO
Precision Medicine Working Group 🧬🎯
@demattosarruda
Trastuzumab Deruxtecan was approved for the treatment of HER2+ MBC after 1 prior anti-HER2-based regimen following the results of DB03. In Annals of Oncology,
@curijoey
and colleagues report on PROs and hospitalization data from the phase 3 clinical trial.
In this new article in Annals of Oncology,
@CharlesSwanton
at al. review and discuss results from three genotype matched platform trials, drawing a roadmap for a future precision medicine strategy 🧬🎯💊
Novel anti-HER2 ADCs demonstrated compelling activity with an objective response rate of 37% across a large spectrum of tumor types with HER2 expression.
This article in Annals of Oncology reports on HER2 status in different cancers including breast & GEJ
Randomized clinical trial designs are sometimes not feasible. This review article in Annals of Oncology discusses the concept of external control arms as a way to circumvent this caveat.
@pmishrakalyani
@DrJuliaBeaver
@realrickpazdur
Alpelisib (α-selective PI3K inhibitor) is approved by the FDA in combination with ET for ER+/HER2- MBC with a PIK3CA mutation. Read in Annals of Oncology on the time course and management of AEs from the pivotal phase 3 trial
#bcsm
@hoperugo
@FAndreMD
CAR-T cells targeting solid cancers have had limited success so far for multiple reasons, including their poor long-term persistence and proliferation. This review discusses early-phenotype CAR-Ts as a strategy to overcome this caveat
@PeterMacCC
With immune checkpoint inhibitors & targeted therapies approved in the adjuvant setting of stage III melanoma, the neoadjuvant approach offers several advantages.
Just out 👇, survival updates of neoadjuvant IPI + NIVO in the OpACIN & OpACIN-neo trials
Just out📣 in Annals of Oncology, the
@myESMO
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diagnosis, Treatment and Follow-up of Localised Colon Cancer
#crcsm
@TaberneroJosep
The intestinal microbiome 🦠 is associated with response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with cancer.
The FIH MET4-IO study investigated MET4, an orally-delivered 30-species microbial consortium, with ICIs as a replacement to fecal microbiota.
#OpenAccess
in Annals of Oncology, results of the ATALANTE-1 RCT investigating OSE2101, a vaccine inducing cytotoxic T lymphocytes against 5 tumor-associated antigens (HER-2, CEA, MAGE 2, MAGE 3 and p53) in HLA-A2+ NSCLC 🫁 after failure of an ICI
#lcsm
Just out in Annals of Oncology, the
@myESMO
recommendations on the use of ctDNA assays 💉🩸 🧬 for patients with cancer: from technical considerations to potential clinical indications including evidence for clinical utility
@jpascualmd
#PrecisionMedicine
Dr Romano from
@GustaveRoussy
presents at
#ESMO20
the classification of genomic alterations from MOSCATO & MATCHR using
@myESMO
ESCAT. In Annals of Oncology, the recommendations of the
@myesmo
PMWG for the use of NGS for patients with metastatic cancers
Multi-region WES 🧬 reveals an intratumoural metastasis in this case of combined lung SCLC 🫁
🔹The SCLC harbored a RB1 mutation among other drivers
🔹The adenocarcinoma component harbored a KRAS G12C mutation
@cusm_muhc
@pierrefiset
@sorin_mark
#LCSM
Just published in Annals of Oncology: study describing the genomic landscape 🧬of gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma depending on PDL1 expression levels. Association of genomic alterations and outcome on immunotherapy are described
In the November 2020 issue of Annals of Oncology, the
@EHNSnews
-
@myESMO
-
@ESTRO_RT
Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of
squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, larynx, oropharynx and hypopharynx
#hncsm
While immunotherapy has become a central component of first-line treatment of most patients with advanced non-small-cell
#lungcancer
, important questions remain about how treatment should be managed for individual patients.
#EditorsChoice
Tusamitamab ravtansine (SAR408701) is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting CEACAM5 with a maytansinoid (DM4) payload.
Results of the first-in-human dose escalation study are available in Annals of Oncology
@TaberneroJosep
@Philippe_Bedard
Just out 📣 in Annals of Oncology, results of TBCRC 030, a phase II study of preoperative cisplatin vs paclitaxel evaluating the predictive value of the HRD biomarker in triple-negative
#BreastCancer
#bcsm
@elmayermd
@mfrimawi
@awolff
Understanding breast cancer complexity to improve patient outcomes: The St. Gallen International Consensus Conference for the Primary Therapy of Individuals with Early Breast Cancer 2023
#bcsm
📣Just out in Annals of Oncology: European cancer mortality predictions for the year 2021 with focus on pancreatic and female lung cancer
Key highlights include:
✅ A decrease in total cancer mortality rates
❌ No decrease in pancreatic cancer mortality