• The risks of polypharmacy in rheumatoid arthritis

    Polypharmacy in RA is associated with increased disease activity, an increased risk of serious adverse events (AEs), and a decreased treatment response.

  • Adjuvant chemotherapy does not improve outcome in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer

    The phase 3 OUTBACK trial results do not support the use of adjuvant chemotherapy after chemoradiation in women with locally advanced cervical cancer.

  • Systemic lupus erythematosus: increased risk of severe infection

    Patients with SLE have an increased risk of developing severe infections compared with non-SLE cases. Moreover, 21% of the mortality in SLE is related to these infections.

  • Olaparib benefits early breast cancer patients with BRCA1/2 germline mutation

    A significantly improved invasive disease-free survival in patients with high risk, HER2-negative, germline BRCA1/2-mutated primary breast cancer is found after 1 year of adjuvant treatment with olaparib.

  • Gene-diet interaction associated with the risk of gout

    Adhering to the healthy Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet decreased the risk of gout in women. This effect was more pronounced in genetically predisposed individuals.

  • Venetoclax does not benefit ER-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer

    Adding the BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax to endocrine therapy does not improve clinical benefit for ER-positive, HER2-negative, locally advanced/metastatic breast cancer patients.

  • Risankizumab meets primary and ranked secondary endpoints in PsA

    Risankizumab treatment leads to better-than-placebo signs and symptoms in active PsA patients with inadequate response or intolerance to 1 or 2 biologic therapies or at least one DMARD therapy.

  • I-O/chemo combo and I-O/I-O combo better than chemotherapy for oesophageal squamous cell cancer

    First phase-3 CheckMate 648 study results demonstrate higher first-line treatment OS with nivolumab + ipilimumab, or nivolumab + chemotherapy, versus chemotherapy only.

  • Together for people in crisis areas - How can physicians help?

    esanum provides an overview of how you as a medical professional can help and proactively support humanitarian and medical aid projects.

  • Updates on COVID-19 vaccines in patients with rheumatic disease

    A study investigated the safety profiles of COVID-19 vaccines in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) finding that these vaccines are safe and well tolerated in these patients.

  • Sustained efficacy of nivolumab/ipilimumab plus 2 cycles of chemotherapy in NSCLC

    A CheckMate 9LA trial update shows sustained benefit of first-line treatment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab plus 2 cycles of chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone in patients with advanced NSCLC.

  • Global Outbreak Update: First avian influenza A(H10N3) human infection in Zhenjiang, China

    On 31 May 2021 China's National Health Commission notified WHO of one confirmed case in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province. The patient is in a stable condition.

  • Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: VISION trial meets its endpoints

    Addition of 177Lu-PSMA-617 therapy to standard of care for mCRPC patients significantly improves survival, according to the phase-3 VISION trial results.

  • PARP7 inhibitor shows promising results in first-in-human trial

    RBN-2397 is a potent, selective inhibitor of PARP7 that could potentially release the brake on the antitumour immunity, is well tolerated, and demonstrated proof of mechanism in a first-in-human trial.

  • Rituximab or JAKi therapies in rheumatoid arthritis increase the risk of severe COVID-19

    Severe COVID-19 outcomes risk in RA patients is 4 times higher for rituximab, and 2 times higher for JAK inhibitor users compared to TNF inhibitor users. This was not found for abatacept or IL-6-inhibiting DMARDs.

  • Efficacy and safety of secukinumab in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

    Secukinumab significantly increased the time leading to, and reduced the number of flares in children with enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) and juvenile psoriatic arthritis (JPsA) when compared with placebo.

  • Molecular tumour profiling: Significant impact on solid tumours in young patients

    First results of the GAIN/iCAT2 Consortium trial show the importance of molecular profiling for the diagnosis and treatment of solid tumours in young patients.

  • Mavrilimumab outperforms placebo in severe COVID-19

    In patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia and hyper-inflammation, mavrilimumab was associated with decreased mechanical ventilation and death compared with placebo.

  • PET/CT is a reliable outcome measure of disease activity in large-vessel vasculitis

    PET/CT showed a discriminating value in measuring disease activity in large-vessel vasculitis (LVV). This finding was consistent in giant cell arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK) subgroups.

  • Ultrasound: promising biomarker for treatment response in very early RA

    In patients with VERA on methotrexate + tocilizumab combination therapy, ultrasound imaging was able to detect treatment response in an earlier stage than clinical examination scores.

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