Modernizing clinical trial eligibility criteria: recommendations of the ASCO-Friends of Cancer Research Performance Status Work Group

A Magnuson, SS Bruinooge, H Singh, KD Wilner… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: Performance status (PS) is one of the most common eligibility criteria. Many trials
are limited to patients with high-functioning PS, resulting in important differences between …

Comparison of population characteristics in real-world clinical oncology databases in the US: Flatiron Health, SEER, and NPCR

X Ma, L Long, S Moon, BJS Adamson, SS Baxi - Medrxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
ABSTRACT Background and Objective The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results
Program (SEER) program and the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR), are …

Pretreatment clinical and hematologic prognostic factors of metastatic urothelial carcinoma treated with pembrolizumab: a systematic review and meta-analysis

T Yanagisawa, K Mori, S Katayama… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Pembrolizumab is the standard for the first and second lines in treating metastatic urothelial
carcinoma (UC). This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the value of …

Impact of performance status on treatment outcomes: A real‐world study of advanced urothelial cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

AR Khaki, A Li, LN Diamantopoulos, MA Bilen… - Cancer, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) represent an appealing treatment for
patients with advanced urothelial cancer (aUC) and a poor performance status (PS) …

Uptake and survival outcomes following immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy among trial-ineligible patients with advanced solid cancers

RB Parikh, EJ Min, EP Wileyto, F Riaz, CP Gross… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are part of standard of care for patients with
many advanced solid tumors. Patients with poor performance status or organ dysfunction …

Systemic anticancer therapy at the end of life—changes in usage pattern in the immunotherapy era

ME Canavan, X Wang, MS Ascha, RA Miksad… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Methods| We used the nationwide Flatiron Health electronic health record–derived database
and included adult patients diagnosed with cancer beginning in 2011 who received …

Immune checkpoint inhibitor use near the end of life is associated with poor performance status, lower hospice enrollment, and dying in the hospital

C Glisch, Y Hagiwara… - American Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors have changed the landscape of cancer care by
increasing progression-free and overall survival in some patients with cancer. We evaluated …

Adoption of immune checkpoint inhibitors and patterns of care at the end of life

F Riaz, G Gan, F Li, AJ Davidoff, KB Adelson… - JCO Oncology …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE: As immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have transformed the care of patients
with cancer, it is unclear whether treatment at the end of life (EOL) has changed. Because …

Undertreatment in patients with advanced urothelial cancer: systematic literature review and meta-analysis

M Kearney, L Zhang, E Hubscher, M Musat… - Future …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: To assess rates of no systemic treatment (NST), attrition across lines of therapy, and
factors influencing treatment selection in patients with locally advanced or metastatic …

End-of-life systemic oncologic treatment in the immunotherapy era: The role of race, insurance, and practice setting

M Canavan, X Wang, M Ascha, R Miksad… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Receipt of antineoplastic systemic treatment near end of life (EOL) has been
shown to harm patient and caregiver experience, increase hospitalizations, intensive care …