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The Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group and the US Department of Health and Human Services jointly released a guide to help the public and private healthcare sectors align their cybersecurity programs with the National Institute of Standards Technology Cybersecurity Framework.

The FDA has issued a final rule intended to ensure patients are better informed about their breast tissue density when undergoing mammography. The rule updates regulations first issued in the 1990s under the Mammography Quality Standards Act to oversee mammography facilities and improve breast cancer testing.

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a rare and aggressive form of cancer, has seen a steady increase in incidence in the United States, with a predominant increase in intrahepatic CCA, from 2001 to 2017, according to a recent epidemiological study.

Older Black and Hispanic patients with advanced cancer are less likely than White patients to receive opioid medications for pain relief in the last weeks of life, according to the results of a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

On January 19, 2023, the FDA accelerated the approval of tucatinib (Tukysa; Seagen), a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in combination with trastuzumab (Herceptin), a HER2/neu receptor agonist, for the treatment of RAS wild-type, HER2-positive, unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) that progressed after fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-based chemotherapies.

A head-to-head phase 3 clinical trial in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) has found that zanubrutinib (Brukinsa), a next-generation Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, is more effective at preventing disease progression and better tolerated than ibrutinib (Imbruvica), a first-generation BTK inhibitor that has been the current standard of care for this population of patients.

Results from a survey of cancer centers revealed that 66% of responding institutions had a biosimilar interchangeability policy in place, but barriers to adoption remain an issue.

Patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, including those with visceral crises, treated with the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib (Kisqali) plus endocrine therapy had a significantly longer progression-free survival (PFS) and fewer adverse events (AEs) compared with those treated with combination chemotherapy, according to results from the phase 2 RIGHT Choice trial.