
Houda Bahig, MD PhD
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Radiation Oncologist & Clinician Scientist @chumontreal & @CRCHUM 🇨🇦 Views are my own
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25-10-2017 03:37:47
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BAD NEWS! -- Xevinapant +cis in HN Phase 3 negative at interim -- cis ineligible study closing down -- not great news for #hncsm #radonc NRG Oncology (h/t Yao Yu) C. Jillian Tsai, MD, PhD Sana Karam, MD, PhD Nancy Lee Henning Willers, MD emdgroup.com/en/news/xevina…


Retrospective NEJ047 study looks at immunotherapy in pts with NSCLC and autoimmune condition Lung Cancer Journal. Autoimmune flares in 25%, immune related AEs in 45.1% and ultimately, use of immunotherapy still improved survival. lungcancerjournal.info/article/S0169-…

☢️Celiac plexus radiation for pain management in pancreatic cancer The Lancet Oncology ✅At 3 weeks, 53% of the patients had at least a partial pain response ✅A non-invasive, relatively safe treatment 👉doi.org/10.1016/S1470-… The Lancet ESTRO ASTRO PanCAN M. Bolton


Great new read from Arielle Elkrief, MD FRCPC and co-authors: a timely analysis in npj Journals #PrecisionOncology showing that #antibiotics prior to chemo-immunotherapy is strongly associated with worse outcomes for lung #cancer patients. nature.com/articles/s4169…



Updated review on second primary lung cancers in lung cancer survivors JTO & JTO CRR. An increasingly important issue as survivorship increases: up to 1 in 6 may develop a new primary lung cancer and important to distinguish from recurrence. jto.org/article/S1556-…







Randomized phase II STOP trial of SBRT for oligoprogressive cancer - 127 pts - 3.4% G3 tox, no G4/5 tox - No difference in PFS: median 8.4mo (SBRT) vs 4.3 mo (SoC) - HOWEVER, protocol adherence suboptimal, 35% in SoC treated with SBRT or study withdrawal redjournal.org/article/S0360-…





“Radiotherapy is used in 50% of cancer patients, but only 5% of funding goes towards radiotherapy research”. A challenge around the world. Congrats Anthony Chalmers 💙.