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We are living in a time that is filled with multiple challenges. I want to bring to your attention that the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+) has created a virtual toolkit of information for our membership regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the 2020 virtual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), a group of oncologists working in different hot spots around the world gave a snapshot of wisdom gleaned from their experience thus far.

The authors advocate for nurse navigation services to guide patients through this challenging time in their lives.

On May 15, 2020, the FDA approved a new indication for the first immunotherapy combination with the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab (Opdivo; BMS) and the CTLA-4 inhibitor ipilimumab (Yervoy; BMS) for the first-line treatment of adults with metastatic non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and PD-L1 expression of ≥1%, as determined by an FDA-approved test, but without EGFR or ALK genomic translocations.

Data from the TRACERx lung study suggest that circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) may be a biomarker for the detection of postsurgical minimal residual disease (MRD) in patients with non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), suggesting which patients are at higher risk of relapse and require more aggressive adjuvant therapy.

Exploring second opinions allows patients to become more informed and secure in their choice of which treatment to pursue.

A bispecific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell product directed against CD19 and CD22 antigens induced a complete response (CR) in 5 of 12 (42%) evaluable children and young adults with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or non-Hodgkin lymphoma.