February Newsmakers

Duke radiologist warns COVID-19 vaccine reaction can mimic sign of breast cancer (Fox 8)
Features Lars Grimm, MD, MHS

WATCH: Local universities collaborating on metastatic breast cancer research (WRAL)
Features Donald McDonnell, PhD

GU ASCO

WATCH: Tian Zhang, MD, speaks about new data at ASCO #GU21 and what it could mean for patients with bladder, kidney and prostate cancer (BMS)
Features Tian Zhang, MD

ASCO GU 2021: The Impact of Concomitant Prostate Cancer Therapy on Efficacy and Safety of Relugolix vs Leuprolide in Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer: Subgroup Analysis, the Phase III HERO Study (Uro Today)
Features Dan George, MD

ASCO GU 2021: Efficacy of the PD-L1 Inhibitor Avelumab in Neuroendocrine or Aggressive Variant Prostate Cancer: Results From a Phase II, Single-Arm Study (UroToday)
Features Landon Brown, MD

Papers

*Duke authors are bolded

A comparison of sunitinib with cabozantinib, crizotinib, and savolitinib for treatment of advanced papillary renal cell carcinoma: a randomised, open-label, phase 2 trial  The Lancet. Feb 20, 2021. Prof Sumanta K Pal, MD; Prof Catherine Tangen, DrPH; Ian M Thompson Jr, MD Naomi Balzer-Haas, MD; Prof Daniel J George, MD; Prof Daniel Y C Heng, MD; Brian Shuch, MD; Mark Stein, MD; Maria Tretiakova, MD; Prof Peter Humphrey, MD; Adebowale Adeniran, MD; Vivek Narayan, MD; Georg A Bjarnason, MD; Prof Ulka Vaishampayan, MD; Ajjai Alva, MD; Tian Zhang, MD; Scott Cole, MD; Melissa Plets, MS; John Wright, MD; Prof Primo N Lara Jr, MD.

Expression of immune checkpoints on circulating tumor cells in men with metastatic prostate cancer Biomarker Research (part of Springer Nature) Feb. 18, 2021 Tian Zhang, Anika Agarwal, R. Garland Almquist, Daniella Runyambo, Sally Park, Elizabeth Bronson, Rengasamy Boominathan, Chandra Rao, Monika Anand, Taofik Oyekunle, Patrick Healy, Megan A. McNamara, Kathryn Ware, Jason A. Somarelli, Daniel J. George & Andrew J. Armstrong.

Spiritual well-being and its association with health-related quality of life in primary brain tumor patients Neuro-Oncology Practice Feb. 17, 2021. Dina M Randazzo, Frances McSherry, James E Herndon, II, Mary L Affronti, Eric S Lipp, Elizabeth S Miller, Sarah Woodring, Patrick Healy, Jennifer Jackman, Brian Crouch, Annick Desjardins, David M Ashley, Henry S Friedman, Katherine B Peters.

Palliative Care Specialist Access is Associated with Rankings of Hospital Quality J Pain Symptom Manage Feb 16, 2021. Jaan Nandwani, Jennifer M Maguire, Maggie Rogers, Diane E Meier, Arif H Kamal.

Angiokines associated with outcomes after sunitinib or everolimus treatment in patients with non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma Clinical Cancer Research Feb. 16, 2021 Andrew J Armstrong, Andrew B. Nixon, Andrea Carmack, Timothy Eisen, Walter M Stadler, Robert J Jones, Jorge Garcia, Ulka N. Vaishampayan, Joel Picus, Robert E Hawkins, John D. Hainsworth, Christian Kollmannsberger, Theodore F Logan, Igor Puzanov, Lisa Pickering, Christopher W Ryan, Andrew Protheroe, Daniel J. George and Susan Halabi.

Molecular Mechanisms Linking Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis to Cancer Clinical Liver Disease Feb 1, 2021. Kara Wegermann, MD, Jeongeun Hyun PhD, Anna Mae Diehl, MD.

Body composition, physical function and quality of life in healthy men and across different stages of prostate cancer Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. January 25, 2021. Erik D Hanson, Cameron K Stopforth, Mohamdod Alzer, Jackson Carver, Alexander R Lucas, Young E Whang, Matthew I Milowsky, David B Bartlett, Michael R Harrison, Alan Hayes, Rhonda L Bitting, Allison M Deal, A C Hackney, Claudio L Battaglini.