May 17th 2024
Jorge J. Nieva, MD, details the benefits of telemedicine and a first-of-its-kind clinical trial where patients with NSCLC will receive subcutaneous immunotherapy at home.
Patient, Provider and Caregiver Connection™: Addressing Patient Concerns During the Treatment and Management of HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
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Breaking Down Biomarkers in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Case-Based Discussion for the Oncology Nurse
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Medical Crossfire®: Critical Questions on Diagnosis, Sequencing, and Selection of Systemic and Radioligand Therapy Options for Patients with GEP-NETs
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Medical Crossfire®: Expert Exchanges to Maximize Clinical Outcomes for Patients with CRPC Through Evidence-Based Personalized Therapy
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection: Addressing Pediatric and AYA Patient Concerns While Managing Hodgkin Lymphoma
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Go To PER in Chicago
May 31, 2024 - June 2, 2024
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The Top 10 Oncogenic Drivers in NSCLC for 2023: What You Need to Know on Tumor Testing, Targets, and Treatment Strategies to Move the Field Forward
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Individualizing Care for Patients with Schizophrenia—Understanding Patient Challenges and the Role of Innovative Treatment
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Improving Outcomes in Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemias at the Intersection Between Hematology and Oncology Care
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Live “Hot Seat”: Experts Face Your Hot-Button Questions on Maximizing PARP Inhibitors in Patients With CRPC
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Everything You Need to Know About PARP Inhibitor Combinations in Prostate Cancer Care: Why? For Whom? And When?
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Oncology Consultations®: Next Generation SERDs—Key Data and Practical Takeaways for the Community Physician
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Multidisciplinary Management of TNBC: Immunotherapy, PARP, TROP2, Oh My!
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Medical Crossfire®: Leveraging Multidisciplinary Teams in Early–Stage Breast Cancer When the Goal is Cure
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Expanding the Armamentarium of Actionable Mutations in NSCLC: Uncovering the Potential of CEACAM5 as a Therapeutic Target
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23rd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer® East
July 19-20, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 14th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies
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Advances In™: Targeting PSMA to Advance Diagnosis And Management Of Patients With Prostate Cancer
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Clinical Case Vignette Series: Integrating Recent Data into Practice to Improve Outcomes in Advanced Prostate Cancer
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Community Practice Connections™: The Advent of TROP2-Targeted Treatment Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
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B-Cell Tumor Board: Rendering Real World Personalized Treatment Plans in CLL/SLL and MCL Through the Lens of Emerging BTKi Evidence
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Community Practice Connections™: 8th Annual School of Gastrointestinal Oncology®
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Community Practice Connections™: Controversies and Conversations About HER2- Expressing Breast Cancer…Advances in Management of HER2-Low to -Positive Disease
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Show Me the Data™: Do We Have Sea Change for Novel Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer? CDK, PI3K/AKT, ADC, and Next-Gen SERD Strategies Assessed
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates from Chicago in Breast Cancer
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8th Annual School of Nursing Oncology™
August 10, 2024
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7th Annual Live Medical Crossfire®: Hematologic Malignancies
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates in RCC from Chicago
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Community Practice Connections™: What the Community Needs to Know to Apply RLT in PSMA-Positive mCRPC in Context with Current Treatment Paradigms
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Community Practice Connections™: Integrating BTK Inhibitors Into the CLL/SLL and MCL Treatment Paradigm
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Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Results in Significant DMFS Improvement Over Placebo in Stage II Melanoma
Adjuvant pembrolizumab was found to result in a significant improvement in distant metastasis-free survival compared with placebo, with a continued reduction in risk of recurrence and an acceptable safety profile, in patients with resected stage IIB or stage IIC melanoma.
Galinpepimut-S Plus Pembrolizumab Displays Early Efficacy in WT1+ Ovarian Cancer
Galinpepimut-S in combination with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab elicited a clinical benefit in patients with Wilms’ tumor-1-positive relapsed/refractory platinum-resistant advanced metastatic ovarian cancer, according to top line-line data from a phase 1/2 trial (NCT03761914).
FDA Approves 2 Frontline Nivolumab-Based Regimens for Unresectable Advanced or Metastatic ESCC
The FDA has approved nivolumab in combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy and nivolumab plus ipilimumab as a first-line treatment for adult patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, irrespective of PD-L1 status.
Nivolumab Plus Axitinib Generates Promising Responses in Untreated Advanced RCC
The combination of nivolumab and axitinib achieved meaningful responses in treatment-naïve advanced renal cell carcinoma, according to results from a phase 1/2 trial (NCT03172754) presented at the 2022 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.
FDA Approval Sought for N-803 Plus BCG in BCG-Unresponsive NMIBC Carcinoma in Situ
A biologics license application seeking the approval of N-803 in combination with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin in patients with BCG-unresponsive, non–muscle invasive bladder cancer carcinoma in situ with or without Ta or T1 disease has been submitted to the FDA.
Pembrolizumab Moves Toward EU Approval for Resected Stage IIB/IIC Melanoma
May 20th 2022The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of pembrolizumab for use as adjuvant therapy in adult and adolescent patients aged 12 years and older with stage IIB or IIC melanoma following complete resection.
Nivolumab/Ipilimumab Plus SBRT Shows Antitumor Activity in Refractory Pancreatic Cancer
Stereotactic body radiation therapy in combination with nivolumab and ipilimumab demonstrated clinically meaningful antitumor activity with a favorable toxicity profile in difficult-to-treat patients with refractory metastatic pancreatic cancer, although the contribution of SBRT is still unclear.
The combination of nivolumab plus ipilimumab was not found to significantly improve overall survival over standard-of-care chemotherapy when used in the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma with a PD-L1 expression of 1% or higher.
Nivolumab Offers Long-Term DFS Benefits in Urothelial Carcinoma
According to longer follow-up data from the phase 3 CheckMate 274 trial, patients with high-risk, muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma continued to experience clinically meaningful improvements in disease-free survival when treated with adjuvant nivolumab vs placebo.
Sotigalimab Plus Nivolumab Shows Encouraging Activity in Anti–PD-1 Refractory Melanoma
May 13th 2022The combination of sotigalimab and nivolumab elicited durable responses with a reasonable safety profile in patients with melanoma who were refractory to anti–PD-1 therapy, according to data from a phase 2 trial.
Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy Does Not Significantly Affect QOL in PD-L1+ TNBC
The addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy led to significant survival benefits without substantial deterioration in health-related quality of life among patients with treatment-naïve, PD-L1–positive advanced triple-negative breast cancer according to results from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-355 trial.
Pembrolizumab With or Without Chemo Has Increased Efficacy With Increasing PD-L1 Expression in HNSCC
Pembrolizumab with or without chemotherapy resulted in a numerically longer overall survival benefit vs cetuximab plus chemotherapy in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and a PD-L1 combined positive score (CPS) between 1 and 19, but did not improve survival in the subset with a PD-L1 CPS of less than 1.
FDA Issues Complete Response Letter to Toripalimab for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
The FDA is seeking the approval of toripalimab plus gemcitabine and cisplatin in the frontline treatment of patients with advanced recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma and for use as a monotherapy in the second-line and later treatment of those with recurrent or metastatic disease.
Frontline Tislelizumab/Chemo Combo Improves OS in Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
The combination of tislelizumab and chemotherapy resulted in a significant improvement in overall survival compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, irrespective of PD-L1 expression.
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab alone after surgery for adult patients with locally advanced or early-stage triple-negative breast cancer who are at a high risk for recurrence.
Nemvaleukin Alone and in Combination with Pembrolizumab Produces Efficacy in Advanced RCC
The IL-2 variant immunotherapy nemvaleukin alfa elicited responses and demonstrated safety as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
Nivolumab Plus Relatlimab Aims to Become Primary Treatment Option for Advanced Melanoma
The addition of novel anti–LAG-3 antibody relatlimab-rmbw to antiPD-1 antibody nivolumab offers treatment-naïve patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma an efficacious and tolerable immunotherapy treatment option.
Bempegaldesleukin/Nivolumab Combo Misses Mark in RCC and Urothelial Cancer
Nektar Therapeutics and Bristol Myers Squibb have announced the decision to end the global clinical development program for the combination of bempegaldesleukin and nivolumab based on findings from preplanned analyses of 2 late-stage clinical trials.
Nivolumab/Ipilimumab Produces Promising ORR in Advanced tTMB- and bTMB-High Solid Tumors
The dual immunotherapy combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab elicited encouraging and durable responses with acceptable safety in patients with advanced or metastatic tumor mutational burden–high solid tumors that were refractory to standard therapies, meeting the primary end points of the phase 2 CheckMate-848 trial.
Nivolumab/Ipilimumab Approved in Europe for Frontline PD-L1+ Advanced ESCC
The European Commission has approved the dual immunotherapy combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab for use in the frontline treatment of adult patients with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who had a PD-L1 expression of 1% or higher on tumor cells.
The European Commission has approved nivolumab in combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-based chemotherapy for the frontline treatment of adult patients with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with a PD-L1 expression of 1% or higher on tumor cells.