The Not-Quite Annual ASCO Round-Up - 2018 edition

by Drew RosielleTheAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, besides being a feast for the pharmaceutical business news pages (google ' ASCO ' and most of the hits will be about how announcement X affected drug company Y ' s stock), is also one of the premiere platforms for publishing original palliative-oncology research. So every year I try to at least scan the abstracts to see what ' s happening, and I figure I might as well blog about it. It ' s tough to analyze abstracts, so I ' ll mostly just be summarizing ones that I think will be of interest to hospice and palliative care folks. I imagine I ' ve missed some good ones, please leave a link in the comments if I have! My major observations on this year ' s abstracts is that there was very little about symptom management compared to years past, except for neuropathies.(Past ASCO reviews here -2008,2017 - Ed.)Fatigue/NutritionA negative phase 2 study of a walking intervention for fatigue in patients with breast cancerA look at 10-year trends in TPN use in cancer patients (use is slightly declining, as are costs, and involvement of palliative care is increasing)Parenteral nutrition once again fails to show any benefit over oral feeding for cancer cachexia (and in fact suggested harm)A nice study looking at the determinants of long-term fatigue in patients with treated ovarian cancerPerhaps the microbiome influences cancer-related fatigue?CommunicationCode status, race, and pall...
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