JAMA Oncology is the JAMA Network's cancer journal, publishing phase 2 trials, secondary analyses of big trials, epidemiology, health policy and drug-pricing research.
JAMA Oncology has appeared monthly since 2015 and is strong on population-based and health-services research (the Global Burden of Disease cancer updates, cost and value analyses of new drugs, disparities), single-arm phase 2 studies, and pooled or secondary analyses of large randomised trials. Hybrid access; research articles free after 12 months. Sceptical editorial tone on surrogate endpoints and accelerated approvals.
Residual-disease testing may not need the tumour to be sequenced first, which would remove the slowest step of tumour-informed assays; the comparison with tumour-informed results in the same patients is the evidence that matters.
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A second publication from the NATALEE trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
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A second publication from the trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
Neoadjuvant modified FOLFIRINOX without routine radiotherapy became the reference approach for borderline resectable disease in North America; radiotherapy is reserved for selected patients or trials.
It is the strongest case that mutation burden is real biology in lung cancer and, at the same time, the clearest demonstration that its threshold is not fixed, which is why it never became a reliable selector.
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The best survival ever recorded in a pancreatic cancer trial, and the benchmark every perioperative trial (PREOPANC-3, Alliance A021806) and every adjuvant RAS inhibitor or vaccine trial (RASolute 304, IMCODE003) now has to beat or add to.
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Carboplatin radiosensitisation is used for high-risk group 3 medulloblastoma, an example of subgroup-directed therapy.
It identifies a way that a good test produces a wrong answer, and it names the fix. Any plasma repair-gene result used to decide on a PARP inhibitor should be run with a paired blood control, or an older man may be treated for a marrow clone rather than for his prostate cancer.
This academic programme is what the FDA approved 68Ga-PSMA-11 on in December 2020, and the Illuccix and Locametz kits rest on it for the staging indication. Its message for a man being staged before surgery is that a positive PSMA PET node is very likely real, but a negative scan does not rule out small nodal deposits, so the lymph node dissection still matters.
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This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT02785952 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the S1400I trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT02716116 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The proof that a blood test can split residual-disease patients into those likely to relapse and those likely cured, the premise of the ctDNA-guided adjuvant idea; no completed trial has yet acted on the result.
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Dasatinib is preferred over imatinib for paediatric Ph-positive ALL in many protocols because of its central nervous system penetration and superior outcomes in this trial.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT02453282 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the MYSTIC trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
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This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT01042379 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the I-SPY 2 trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
One of the most cited trial reports Europe PMC returns for Nivolumab in Hepatocellular carcinoma, so it is a natural first reading for anyone weighing the idea it is linked from. The record was linked automatically by title and abstract; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
Dostarlimab was approved for previously treated mismatch repair-deficient endometrial cancer on these data, before moving into first-line combination in RUBY.
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Single-agent pembrolizumab is an option for microsatellite-unstable gastric cancer first line, whereas for the broader PD-L1-positive population chemo-immunotherapy from CheckMate 649 and KEYNOTE-859 became standard.
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Neoadjuvant dabrafenib-trametinib to convert unresectable BRAF-mutant anaplastic thyroid cancer into operable disease is now a guideline-endorsed strategy.
A second publication from the MONARCH 2 trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The clearest randomised refutation in the field. Phase 1 data had looked encouraging, the delivery problem was solved by surgical access, and the killing mechanism was a well-understood chemotherapy released in place. None of it translated. Any claim that oncolytic virotherapy works in glioma has to be read against this trial.
It is the evidence behind using PSMA PET when PSA rises after treatment, and it quantifies the limit that matters most: below PSA 0.5 ng/mL, where salvage radiotherapy works best, the scan is negative in nearly two men in three, so a negative scan is not a reason to wait.
It showed that serial rather than single testing is what makes residual disease detection work, and it set the sampling schedule most later studies have used.
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For TNBC, where brain metastases are common, the blind spot matters: a negative ctDNA test does not exclude intracranial relapse.
The disparity in prostate cancer death among Black men in the United States is, stage for stage and treatment for treatment, largely a disparity in getting standard care rather than in tumour biology. The disparity that survives equal access is in dying of everything else, which is the part a cancer service is least organised to fix and most able to measure.
It showed the benefit of plasma testing is not only analytical but logistical: it reaches patients who are too unwell, or whose disease is too inaccessible, for a repeat biopsy.
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Dual checkpoint blockade, which rescued other cold tumours, does not work in unselected pancreatic cancer; combinations must change the microenvironment first.
The clearest published demonstration that a screening eligibility rule can be accurate on average and systematically wrong for a group. It is the empirical core of the argument for replacing pack-year thresholds with individual risk models.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT02392637 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the cisplatin and nab-paclitaxel phase 2 trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
Laparoscopic distal gastrectomy is the standard operation for stage I gastric cancer outside endoscopic criteria in East Asia and increasingly elsewhere.
It is the second half of the argument for unselected germline testing, and it widens the target beyond BRCA: two thirds of the actionable inherited findings in prostate cancer are in other genes, including the mismatch repair genes that open a checkpoint inhibitor route.
It is the argument for sequencing every man with advanced prostate cancer rather than only the ones who look high risk: the phenotype is uncommon, it is invisible clinically, it opens the only durable immunotherapy route in this disease, and in one man in five it also identifies Lynch syndrome in the family.
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It changed how resistance is investigated: the first question at progression on osimertinib is whether T790M is still there, because losing it means the tumour is no longer EGFR-driven in the growing compartment and another EGFR inhibitor will not help.
The driver count is a prognostic score in itself, and the allele matters: G12D is the pancreatic allele with the worst outlook and the one the new selective inhibitors chase.
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It is the clearest evidence in prostate cancer that a blood biomarker can point to one treatment class over another, and the reason AR-V7 is discussed in guidelines despite being in no label.
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Erdheim-Chester disease with a BRAF V600E mutation is treated first with a BRAF inhibitor; the first targeted approval in any histiocytosis.
Together with the Blueprint work it establishes that a PD-L1 percentage reports the assay as much as it reports the tumour, so the threshold and the antibody have to be quoted together.
Signatures find repair-deficient tumours that gene panels miss, and they mark the minority in which checkpoint drugs have a rationale.
The excess of triple-negative disease in women of African ancestry is substantially genetic in origin rather than only social, which supports ancestry-aware risk models and trial enrolment.
GBD is the other major global cancer count alongside GLOBOCAN, using different methods, and its burden measures in years of life lost make the case that cancer control is largely a problem of ageing populations in middle-income countries.
Germline status changes the reading of the platinum question: in early TNBC the carboplatin benefit was seen in non-carriers, so a BRCA result argues for testing everyone rather than reserving platinum for carriers.
It showed the sidedness effect is not an artefact of pooling and survives adjustment for BRAF, which is what made guideline committees act on it.
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Radiation oncologist who showed MRI-guided prostate radiotherapy causes fewer side effects.
Barcelona oncologist who led GARNET, the trial that brought dostarlimab to mismatch repair-deficient endometrial cancer, and who has led many trials of new drugs for gynaecological cancers.
Showed that MGUS precedes essentially all myeloma and leads MRD-driven trials aiming for cure without transplant.
The radiation oncologist who is chief medical officer of the New York Proton Center, the proton therapy centre founded by Memorial Sloan Kettering, Montefiore and Mount Sinai.
Showed that adding blood-based sequencing to tissue testing finds more targetable lung cancer mutations.
Nurse scientist who put patient-reported outcomes into cooperative group radiation trials.
A GI oncologist whose work on immunotherapy biomarkers and Chinese gastric cancer trials feeds global guidelines.
Leading Korean gastric cancer surgeon and KLASS trial investigator who is President of the National Cancer Center Korea.
Vice-President of JSMO and thoracic medical oncologist at Kindai University known for clinical trials of targeted therapies in lung cancer.
Adelaide radiation oncologist who chairs TROG's Scientific Committee and is its President Elect.
Defined how prostate cancer trials are run and read, from PSA working-group criteria to circulating tumour cell biomarkers.
Korean surgeon who led KLASS-01, the trial that showed keyhole gastrectomy is as safe and effective as open surgery for early stomach cancer.
Led the RATIONALE trials of tislelizumab in lung cancer and many other Chinese registrational NSCLC studies.
Nuclear medicine leader who helped bring PSMA PET and radioligand therapy to the United States.
The surgeon on CheckMate 816 who showed neoadjuvant immunotherapy does not make lung cancer operations harder.
Medical oncologist at Hôpital Tenon who is executive director of the Institut Universitaire de Cancérologie AP-HP Sorbonne Université, the OECI-accredited university cancer institute in Paris.
Principal investigator of SPOTLIGHT and DESTINY-Gastric01, two trials that created new drug classes for stomach cancer.
Translational breast oncologist who co-leads the I-SPY2 platform trial and helped show immunotherapy works in early TNBC.
Runs one of the world's largest phase 1 programmes and led trials that shaped head and neck cancer immunotherapy.
Mariana Chavez-MacGregor is a breast oncologist who studies how care is delivered and leads SWOG's international work.
Markus Graefen leads the Martini-Klinik, the world's highest-volume prostate surgery centre.
Nicola Normanno represents IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori 'Dino Amadori' (IRST) in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its members in Italy.
Led KarMMa, which brought idecabtagene vicleucel, the first CAR-T for myeloma, to approval.
Pascal Hammel represents AP-HP Paris-Saclay University Hospitals Cancer Institute in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its full members in France.
Pilar Garrido is a thoracic oncologist and past president of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology.
R.R.W.J. van der Hulst represents Maastricht UMC+ Comprehensive Cancer Center and OncoZON Comprehensive Cancer Network in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists both among its members in The Netherlands.
Pancreatic cancer surgeon who has directed the University of Colorado Cancer Center, the state's NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centre, since 2018.
Gynaecological oncologist and hereditary cancer expert who became President of Deutsche Krebshilfe, Germany's largest cancer charity, in 2026.
Sabine Linn is a breast oncologist testing DNA-damaging chemotherapy in BRCA-like breast cancer.
Weill Cornell pathologist-immunologist known for radiation-immunotherapy research; SITC Vice President.
Seattle paediatric neuro-oncologist who led COG ACNS0332, the trial that found adding carboplatin to radiotherapy improves survival in children with high-risk group 3 medulloblastoma but isotretinoin does not help.
Surgeon who directs Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state's NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centre.
Nuclear medicine physician who led the trials that got PSMA PET approved in the United States.
Oncologist (FACP, FASCO) who is Interim Director of the UF Health Cancer Institute in Gainesville, Florida's only NCI-designated cancer centre based at a public university.
Xavier Pivot represents Institut Strauss in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the organisation among its members in France.
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Residual-disease testing may not need the tumour to be sequenced first, which would remove the slowest step of tumour-informed assays; the comparison with tumour-informed results in the same patients is the evidence that matters.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT06747338 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT04969887 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the MOST-CIRCUIT trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
A second publication from the NATALEE trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
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A second publication from the trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.