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Ocular Adverse Events Linked to Chemotherapies Paclitaxel and Docetaxel

Drug Topics

Patients who received the chemotherapies paclitaxel and docetaxel were at an increased risk of adverse events of the eye.

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Atorvastatin shown to reduce cardiac dysfunction in anthracycline-based chemotherapy

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

The use of atorvastatin prior to anthracycline-based chemotherapy in lymphoma patients reduces the subsequent development of cardiac dysfunction, according to the findings of a randomised trial. The number of serious related adverse events was low and similar between groups.

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Nivolumab Plus Chemotherapy Treatment Followed By Surgery Improved EFS in Patients With NSCLC

Pharmacy Times

Compared to placebo plus chemotherapy, nivolumab plus chemotherapy had also improved event-free survival and both polymerase chain reaction and major pathologic response rates.

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Imfinzi with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Demonstrates Significant Benefit in Event-Free Survival Treating Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

PharmExec

FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee acknowledged that Imfinzi met its primary endpoint of event-free survival in the treatment of resectable non-small cell lung cancer.

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Here’s a new data point for cancer patients to consider: ‘time toxicity’

STAT

When Jeannette Cleland learned earlier this year that she could get chemotherapy at home, after dropping a particularly toxic medication, it seemed like good news. But then Cleland, a 44-year-old Minneapolis event planner who has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, did the math. Read the rest…

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Is prescribing anticancer drugs by body surface area still relevant?

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

The approach was adopted widely, particularly for cytotoxic chemotherapy agents, with the aim of standardising drug exposure and minimising toxicity. 5,6 Freireich et als work further validated this approach, showing that BSA correlated with drug efficacy and toxicity across several chemotherapy agents. 6 Gurney H.

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NICE backs use of MSD’s KEYTRUDA for triple-negative breast cancer

pharmaphorum

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended the use of KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) as an option with chemotherapy for neoadjuvant, and alone as adjuvant treatment after surgery, for adults with early TNBC, at high risk of recurrence, or locally advanced TNBC. After a median follow-up of 39.1