Ryan Phillips, MD, PhD; William Yue Shi, BS; Matthew Deek, MD; et al.
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):650-659. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0147
This randomized clinical trial assesses whether treatment with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy vs observation improves oncologic outcomes in men with recurrent hormone-sensitive oligometastatic prostate cancer.
Naiyer A. Rizvi, MD; Byoung Chul Cho, MD, PhD; Niels Reinmuth, MD, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):661-674. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0237
This randomized clinical trial compares durvalumab, with or without tremelimumab, with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.
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Durvalumab With or Without Tremelimumab vs Standard Chemotherapy for Metastatic NSCLC
Rita Nanda, MD; Minetta C. Liu, MD; Christina Yau, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):676-684. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.6650
This analysis of data from an ongoing open-label adaptively randomized phase 2 platform trial examines the efficacy of adding pembrolizumab to standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early-stage, high-risk, ERBB2-negative breast cancer.
Global Retinoblastoma Study Group
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):685-695. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.6716
This cross-sectional analysis reports the retinoblastoma stage at diagnosis across the world during a single year, investigates associations between clinical variables and national income level, and investigates risk factors for advanced disease at diagnosis.
Pamela Stratton, MD; Minoo Battiwalla, MD, MS; Xin Tian, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):696-705. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.6722
This nonrandomized clinical trial examines the safety and immunogenicity of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in clinically stable women post–allogeneic transplant compared with female healthy volunteers.
Allen S. Ho, MD; Michael Luu, MPH; Laurel Barrios, BA; et al.
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):706-713. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.6851
This cohort study uses data from multiple US registries to analyze incidence, clinicopathologic characteristics, and outcomes for aggressive variants of papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Tobias Fehlmann, MSc; Mustafa Kahraman, MSc; Nicole Ludwig, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):714-723. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0001
This cohort study assesses whether circulating microRNA profiles could be used as biomarkers to improve the detection of lung cancer in symptomatic patients.
Lisa Mirabello, PhD; Bin Zhu, PhD; Roelof Koster, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):724-734. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0197
This next-generation exome sequencing study investigates the frequency of pathogenic or likely pathogenic germline genetic variants in known cancer-susceptibility genes among patients with osteosarcoma.
Robert T. Dess, MD; Yilun Sun, PhD; William C. Jackson, MD; et al.
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):735-743. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0109
This secondary analysis examines the association of prostate-specific antigen levels before salvage radiotherapy and net benefit of long-term antiandrogen treatment added to salvage radiotherapy for men with recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy.
Isamu Okamoto, MD; Hiroshi Nokihara, MD; Shogo Nomura, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(5):e196828. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.6828
This phase 3 randomized clinical trial compares treatment with carboplatin plus pemetrexed followed by pemetrexed maintenance with docetaxel monotherapy for overall survival for elderly Japanese patients with advanced nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).