Tumor genotype and immune microenvironment in POLE-ultramutated and MSI-hypermutated endometrial cancers: new candidates for checkpoint blockade …

P Gargiulo, C Della Pepa, S Berardi, D Califano… - Cancer treatment …, 2016 - Elsevier
Endometrial Cancer (EC) is still a challenge for gynecological oncologists because the
treatment of the advanced disease remains an unmet need for patients. The Cancer …

Low grade serous ovarian carcinoma: from the molecular characterization to the best therapeutic strategy

C Della Pepa, G Tonini, D Santini, S Losito… - Cancer treatment …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Low Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma, LGSOC, is certainly a rare disease,
accounting for only a small proportion of all ovarian carcinomas, nevertheless in the last …

[HTML][HTML] Tocilizumab for patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. The single-arm TOCIVID-19 prospective trial

F Perrone, MC Piccirillo, PA Ascierto… - Journal of translational …, 2020 - Springer
Background Tocilizumab blocks pro-inflammatory activity of interleukin-6 (IL-6), involved in
pathogenesis of pneumonia the most frequent cause of death in COVID-19 patients …

[HTML][HTML] Addition of bevacizumab to erlotinib as first-line treatment of patients with EGFR-mutated advanced nonsquamous NSCLC: the BEVERLY multicenter …

MC Piccirillo, L Bonanno, MC Garassino… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Adding bevacizumab to erlotinib prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) of
patients with EGFR-mutated advanced NSCLC in the Japanese JO25567 trial, but limited …

[HTML][HTML] Maintenance olaparib plus bevacizumab in patients with newly diagnosed advanced high-grade ovarian cancer: main analysis of second progression-free …

A González-Martín, C Desauw, F Heitz, C Cropet… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background PAOLA-1/ENGOT-ov25 (NCT02477644) demonstrated a significant
progression-free survival (PFS) benefit with maintenance olaparib plus bevacizumab versus …

Chemotherapy versus endocrine therapy as first-line treatment in patients with luminal-like HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer: a propensity score analysis

M Bonotto, L Gerratana, M Di Maio, C De Angelis… - The breast, 2017 - Elsevier
Background According to current guidelines, endocrine therapy (ET) is recommended as
first-line treatment of luminal-like metastatic breast cancer (MBC), whereas chemotherapy …

[HTML][HTML] Master protocols for precision medicine in oncology: overcoming methodology of randomized clinical trials

R Di Liello, MC Piccirillo, L Arenare, P Gargiulo… - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
Randomized clinical trials are considered the milestones of clinical research in oncology,
and guided the development and approval of new compounds so far. In the last few years …

Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy in untreated advanced pleural mesothelioma in Canada, Italy, and France: a phase 3, open-label …

Q Chu, F Perrone, L Greillier, W Tu, MC Piccirillo… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Pleural mesothelioma usually presents at an advanced, incurable stage.
Chemotherapy with platinum–pemetrexed is a standard treatment. We hypothesised that the …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the adequacy of control arms in oncology randomised clinical trials published between 2017 and 2021: a meta-research study

A Rossi, G Aimar, M Audisio, M Bungaro… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are usually considered the
highest level of evidence for clinical practice. Patients assigned to control arm in RCTs …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of the clinical use of GIScar, an academic-developed genomic instability score predicting sensitivity to maintenance olaparib for ovarian cancer

R Leman, E Muller, A Legros, N Goardon, I Chentli… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Purpose: The optimal application of maintenance PARP inhibitor therapy for ovarian cancer
requires accessible, robust, and rapid testing of homologous recombination deficiency …