Piloting a Financial Counseling Intervention for Patients With Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy.

Purpose: National organizations encourage communication about costs of cancer care; however, few data are available on health system models for identifying and assisting patients with financial distress (FD). We report the feasibility and acceptability of a financial counseling (FC) intervention for patients who receive chemotherapy at a comprehensive cancer center.

Materials And Methods: Patients were randomly assigned 1:1 to FC or standard care.

Lymphoma occurring during pregnancy: antenatal therapy, complications, and maternal survival in a multicenter analysis.

Purpose: Lymphoma is the fourth most frequent cancer in pregnancy; however, current clinical practice is based largely on small series and case reports.

Patients And Methods: In a multicenter retrospective analysis, we examined treatment, complications, and outcomes for Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) occurring during pregnancy.

Results: Among 90 patients (NHL, n = 50; HL, n = 40), median age was 30 years (range, 18 to 44 years) and median diagnosis occurred at 24 weeks gestation.

Targeted therapies in bone sarcomas: current approach and future directions.

Introduction: Bone sarcomas are rare malignancies and once advanced, there is limited response to current chemotherapeutic regimens. Targeted therapies could have substantial impact on these diseases.

Areas Covered: Specific molecular targets of bone sarcomas are reviewed along with the various targeted therapies that have potential to change the outcome of these chemotherapy resistant diseases.