Ashling Wahner

Patients with synchronous metastatic renal cell carcinoma who received first-line immunotherapy had worse survival outcomes compared with those with metachronous metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Adrienne G. Waks, MD, spotlights the role of the HER2CLIMB regimen in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer with brain metastases, discusses unmet needs in the fourth- and later-line settings in HER2-positive disease, and explains the basis for the ongoing HER2CLIMB-02 and HER2CLIMB-04 trials within the broader ADC landscape.

Adnan F. Danish, MD, discusses current unmet needs in the treatment of patients with stage IV lung and bone cancers, the benefits SCINTIX technology can provide for these patients, and how John Theurer Cancer Center plans to use this technology to improve patient outcomes and support further radiation therapy research.

Anna B. Halpern, MD, discusses strides in the treatment of myelofibrosis with anemia, the shifting role of ruxolitinib in this disease, and the importance of providing patients with access to clinical trials.

Jeffrey V. Matous, MD, highlights takeaways from the phase 3 IKEMA trial and notes the benefits of administering CAR T-cell therapy in earlier lines, as evidenced in primary results from the phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 trial.

Varun Monga, MBBS, discusses the mechanism of action of PRT811, key efficacy and safety findings from a phase 1 trial investigating the agent, and potential future directions with this agent in uveal melanoma and IDH-mutant high-grade glioma.

Sarah Sammons, MD, discusses the evolving role of CDK4/6 inhibitors in hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, the future of antibody-drug conjugates in triple-negative breast cancer, and the importance of educating patients about their available treatment options so they can share in the decision-making process.

Julien Taieb, MD, discusses the importance of combining fluoropyrimidines with bevacizumab, key findings from the SUNLIGHT trial and the post-hoc analysis, and how these results may shake up the colorectal cancer treatment paradigm.

The addition of first-line maintenance avelumab to best supportive care has sustained tolerability in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma.

Bradley J. Monk, MD, FACS, FACOG, discusses the rationale for investigating avutometinib plus defactinib in patients with low-grade serous ovarian cancer, key findings from RAMP 201, and how this research may influence the ovarian cancer treatment paradigm going forward.

Nikhil C. Munshi, MD, discusses the significance of the FDA approval of cilta-cel in patients with multiple myeloma, shares the long-term findings from the pivotal CARTITUDE-1 trial, and highlights future directions for CAR T-cell therapy in this disease.

The combination of fianlimab and cemiplimab represents a wave of novel anti–LAG-3/PD-1 treatments being explored in patients with melanoma at high risk for relapse.

The CAR T-cell therapy AUTO4 was not associated with dose-limiting toxicities and led to early indications of efficacy in patients with relapsed/refractory TRBC1-positive peripheral T-cell lymphoma.

Prithviraj Bose, MD, discusses the development of non-myelosuppressive JAK inhibitors for patients with myelofibrosis, where the future of combination therapy is headed in this population, and the importance of enrolling patients in clinical trials that are tailored to their disease subset and treatment needs.

Zilovertamab vedotin was tolerable and generated early efficacy signals in patients with relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia treated with ibrutinib in the phase 3 RESONATE trial achieved a significantly longer median progression-free survival compared with those in the phase 3 ALPINE trial, as well as a higher yet nonsignificant 2-year PFS estimate vs those in the phase 3 ELEVATE-RR trial.

Brian Van Tine, MD, PhD, discusses key considerations for understanding the biology of MYC, the rationale for the phase 1 study of KB-0742 in MYC-amplified or -overexpressed relapsed or refractory solid tumors, and patient characteristics that may signal their eligibility for participation in this trial.

The real-world efficacy and safety of brexucabtagene autoleucel were similar to the outcomes seen in the phase 2 ZUMA-2 trial, regardless of patients’ treatment history, according to results from a real-world subgroup analysis of patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

The first-line combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab elicited durable responses with a manageable safety profile in patients with non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma, according to findings from the phase 2 KEYNOTE-B61 trial.

The combination of the TIGIT inhibitor domvanalimab and the A2R antagonist etrumadenant enhances the clinical activity of the PD-1 inhibitor zimberelimab when administered as triplet therapy in patients with PD-L1–high, metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

The FGFR2 inhibitor RLY-4008 generated early evidence of efficacy in patients with cholangiocarcinoma harboring FGFR2 fusions, according to findings from the phase 1/2 ReFocus trial, which were presented at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting.

The combination of panitumumab and standard-of-care trifluridine-tipiracil rechallenge delivered a progression-free survival benefit vs trifluridine-tipiracil alone in the third-line setting in patients with refractory RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer, meeting the primary end point of the phase 2 VELO trial.

Whitfield B. Growdon, MD, shares the potential implications of first-line PARP maintenance in newly diagnosed ovarian cancer, the importance of treating patients with effective therapies as early as possible, and where combination regimens could fit into the treatment paradigm going forward.

Whitfield B. Growdon, MD, discusses the role PARP inhibitors have played in ovarian cancer since their introduction to the field, the updated clinical trial data that contributed to the indication withdrawals for these agents, and where future research in this area may be headed.

Eileen O’Reilly, MD, and Benjamin Weinberg, MD, discuss the importance of conducting biomarker testing as the gastrointestinal cancer treatment arena continues to evolve, the need for increased gene fusion testing, and the negative effects of inadequate biomarker testing in the gastrointestinal cancer population.

Yiming Wu, PhD, discusses the rationale for studying splicing defects in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia without spliceosome mutations, shared key findings from this study, and emphasized how these findings support further research with METTL3 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and other hematologic malignancies with RNA splicing dysregulation.

Ribociclib plus switch endocrine therapy induced a statistically significant progression-free survival benefit compared with placebo plus switch endocrine therapy in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, metastatic breast cancer.

Xingming Zhang, MD, discusses unmet needs in fumarate hydratase–deficient renal cell carcinoma; shares key efficacy, safety, and quality of life findings from a phase 2 trial of sintilimab plus axitinib; and elaborates on the next steps for this research, including an analysis of biomarkers and potential resistance mechanisms.

Polymorphic alleles of ABCB1 or VEGF were predictive of lenalidomide efficacy in patients with mantle cell lymphoma who received lenalidomide maintenance after autologous stem cell transplant.

Treatment with ruxolitinib generated superior responses vs treatment with best available therapy in patients with hydroxycarbamide-intolerant or -resistant polycythemia vera, according to findings from the phase 2 MAJIC-PV trial.