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Next-generation panel sequencing and a unique algorithm demonstrated the advantage of detecting NRG1 fusions and providing structure information of partners, which could ultimately guide more precise therapeutic options, according to data from a study done in Chinese patients with solid tumors.
Treatment with ropeginterferon alfa-2b-njft induced low symptom burden and low phlebotomy requirement compared with best available treatment in patients with polycythemia vera, according to long-term data from the phase 3 PROUD-PV and CONTINUATION-PV trials.
Treatment with the R-CODOX-M and R-IVAC regimens elicited similar efficacy to dose-adjusted infused DA-EPOCH-R in patients with newly diagnosed, high-risk Burkitt lymphoma.
ARI0002H, a BCMA-directed CAR T-cell therapy, achieved promising response rates in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to findings from a phase 1/2 trial.
Oral azacitidine was associated with improved long-term survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia who harbored NPM1 mutations, had intermediate-risk cytogenetics at diagnosis, had a longer treatment duration, or a minimal residual disease response during treatment.
Adding toripalimab to chemotherapy in the frontline setting demonstrated improved progression-free survival vs placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer without EGFR or ALK mutations, regardless of PD-L1 status.
Zanubrutinib continued to demonstrate a higher complete response or very good partial response rate and less off-target activity compared with ibrutinib in patients with MYD88-mutated Waldenström macroglobulinemia.
Seribantumab was found to produce encouraging overall response rates with acceptable tolerability when used as a monotherapy in patients with solid tumors harboring NRG1 fusions.
The use of BTK inhibitors as a frontline treatment improved overall survival vs their deployment in subsequent lines of therapy in patients with mantle cell lymphoma, according to a real-world study (IRB-300004501) published in Blood Advances.
The fixed-duration combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax produced deep responses and improved progression-free survival vs chlorambucil plus obinutuzumab when used in previously untreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who were older and/or who had comorbidities, according to findings from the phase 3 GLOW trial.
Second-line treatment with pemigatinib may be linked with prolonged progression-free survival compared with other systemic therapies in patients with cholangiocarcinoma harboring FGFR2 fusions or rearrangements.
The BTK inhibitor zanubrutinib has been approved in Uruguay for the treatment of adult patients with previously treated mantle cell lymphoma, relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma, and Waldenström macroglobulinemia.
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.
The synthetic Toll-like receptor 9 agonist tilsotolimod reduced the sentinel lymph node biopsy positivity rate vs placebo in patients with localized, excised melanoma.
The combination of tucatinib and trastuzumab produced promising response rates in patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer.
The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on a phase 1 trial investigating FHD-286 as a treatment for patients with relapsed and/or refractory acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.
A marketing authorization application has been submitted to the European Medicines Agency seeking the approval of adagrasib for therapeutic use in previously treated patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring a KRAS G12C mutation.
The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to XMT-2056 for use as a potential therapeutic option for patients with gastric cancer.
Dabrafenib plus trametinib produced clinically meaningful objective responses rates in patients with recurrent or progressive BRAF V600E mutation–positive glioma.
Investigators have initiated a phase 1 trial exploring ACLX-001, a novel CAR T-cell therapy using the ARC-SparX platform, in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.
The combination of intratumoral vidutolimod and intravenous pembrolizumab demonstrated promising clinical activity in patients with PD-1 refractory melanoma.
PET/CT scans conducted with 18F-rhPSMA-7.3 frequently resulted in post-scan disease upstaging compared with baseline conventional imaging in patients with prostate cancer recurrence.
The addition of navicixizumab to paclitaxel produced encouraging responses with manageable toxicity in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer irrespective of prior treatment with bevacizumab.
The first-in-class, off-the-shelf therapeutic cancer vaccine VB10.16 in combination with atezolizumab generated positive responses in heavily pretreated patients with HPV16-positive advanced cervical cancer.
The addition of abemaciclib to endocrine therapy improved invasive disease-free survival and distant relapse-free survival vs endocrine therapy alone in patients with high-risk, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, early-stage breast cancer, irrespective of menopausal status.
The addition of nivolumab to trastuzumab deruxtecan did not result in a marked clinical benefit in patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.
Neoadjuvant therapy generated similar benefits to adjuvant therapy in patients with early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer treated in China, suggesting that neoadjuvant therapy should be used in this patient population.
The addition of ribociclib to fulvestrant continued to significantly prolong overall survival, delayed time to second disease progression, and improved chemotherapy-free survival vs placebo plus fulvestrant in the first-line treatment of patients with advanced hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.
The safety and efficacy of the combination of the oncolytic immunotherapy CG0070 and nivolumab is under exploration as a potential therapeutic option in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are ineligible for cisplatin-based chemotherapy, as part of the phase 1b CORE-002 trial.
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.
