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Explore expert insights on the fundamentals of cancer, including how it develops, key risk factors, prevention strategies, and treatment options. This section also highlights cancer awareness months and related observance days and weeks. Commentaries from our network of oncology professionals shed light on critical issues that require greater attention across the cancer care and research continuum.

Managing Bispecific T-Cell Engager Toxicity: CRS and ICANs in Practice
Cancer Education · Research · Perspectives

Managing Bispecific T-Cell Engager Toxicity: CRS and ICANs in Practice

By Allison Hamner, PharmD, BCPS

Bispecific T-cell engagers (BiTEs) offer major efficacy in hematologic malignancies, but their signature toxicities—cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and ICANS—require real-time vigilance and management similar to CAR T-cell therapy.

World Lung Cancer Day 2026: What Lung Cancer Doctors Want You to Know
Cancer Education · Resources for Cancer Patients

World Lung Cancer Day 2026: What Lung Cancer Doctors Want You to Know

By Ariana Sutherland, MSc

On World Lung Cancer Day 2026, oncologists weigh in on screening stigma, smoking cessation, and the treatment advances giving patients reason for cautious optimism. Here's what they want you to know.

Multiple Myeloma at ASCO 2026: Bispecifics, CELMoDs, In Vivo CAR-T, and Early Intervention in Smoldering Disease
Research · Cancer Education · Perspectives

Multiple Myeloma at ASCO 2026: Bispecifics, CELMoDs, In Vivo CAR-T, and Early Intervention in Smoldering Disease

By Adeel M. Khan, MD, MPH, MS

Multiple myeloma had another eventful year at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting, with notable data across nearly every stage of disease

Recognizing and Treating Triple M Syndrome: A Checkpoint Inhibitor Toxicity Case
Cancer Education · Perspectives · Research · Resources for Cancer Patients

Recognizing and Treating Triple M Syndrome: A Checkpoint Inhibitor Toxicity Case

By Katherine Hill, PharmD, BCOP

Triple M syndrome, the co-occurrence of myocarditis, myasthenia gravis, and myositis, is a rare but potentially fatal complication of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy, with reported fatality rates approaching 30-50%.

Adjuvant Immunotherapy Keeps Falling Short in Early Lung Cancer, So the Field Is Moving the Timeline Up
Cancer Education · Research

Adjuvant Immunotherapy Keeps Falling Short in Early Lung Cancer, So the Field Is Moving the Timeline Up

By Balazs Halmos, MD

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, though the trajectory has shifted meaningfully: lung cancer mortality in the United States has fallen by roughly half over the past 25 years.

Managing Enfortumab Vedotin-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: A Practical Case Review
Cancer Education · Research

Managing Enfortumab Vedotin-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: A Practical Case Review

By Alexandra Koehler, DNP

Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab (EV+P) has transformed frontline treatment for metastatic urothelial carcinoma, roughly doubling median overall survival compared with platinum-based chemotherapy in the EV-302 trial.

AML Updates From ASCO 2026: Menin Inhibitor Maintenance and Two Targeted Triplets
Cancer Education · Resources for Cancer Patients · Perspectives

AML Updates From ASCO 2026: Menin Inhibitor Maintenance and Two Targeted Triplets

By Clark Alsfeld, MD

Three abstracts from the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting speak to where acute myeloid leukemia (AML) treatment is headed

Biomarkers, Immunotherapy, and a New Standard of Care: What's Changing in Colorectal Cancer
Cancer Education

Biomarkers, Immunotherapy, and a New Standard of Care: What's Changing in Colorectal Cancer

By Deepak Vadehra, DO

Three themes are reshaping how colorectal cancer is managed across every disease stage: a broad push to de-escalate treatment through non-operative management and radiation omission in rectal cancer

RASolute 302: A Turning Point for RAS-Targeted Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer
Cancer Education · Research

RASolute 302: A Turning Point for RAS-Targeted Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer

By Brandon G. Smaglo, MD

The 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting brought what may be the most significant pancreatic cancer data in years:

New Prostate Cancer Data From ASCO 2026: PROTEUS, TALAPRO-3, and Treatment Holidays
Cancer Education · Resources for Cancer Patients

New Prostate Cancer Data From ASCO 2026: PROTEUS, TALAPRO-3, and Treatment Holidays

By Dalia Hammoud, MD

Together, PROTEUS, TALAPRO-3, and A-DREAM speak to a broader shift in the field: treatment intensity is increasingly being matched to individual risk and response, rather than applied uniformly.

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