Gina Mauro

R. Lor Randall, MD, discusses survey results in detail and what the sarcoma community can do to overcome clinical trial enrollment barriers for adolescent and young adult patients.

Adavosertib demonstrated a 65% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with active monitoring in patients with TP53-/RAS-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer following first-line chemotherapy.

Adjuvant treatment with atezolizumab led to an improvement in disease-free survival and time to locoregional and distant relapse compared with best supportive care in prespecified subgroups of PD-L1–positive patients with stage II to IIIA NSCLC, according to exploratory findings from the phase 3 IMpower010 trial.

TG-1701, a covalently bound BTK inhibitor, used as monotherapy or in combination with umbralisib and ublituximab, demonstrated promising activity and a manageable safety profile in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The frontline combination of nivolumab and chemotherapy upheld its improvement in progression-free and overall survival vs chemotherapy alone with longer follow-up of patients with advanced gastric, gastroesophageal junction, or esophageal cancer, according to data from the phase 3 CheckMate-649 trial.

The use of a cell-free DNA–based minimal residual disease assay demonstrated feasibility and highly concordant results compared with 4-color flow cytometry and improved MRD detection in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who were treated with time-limited venetoclax, acalabrutinib, and obinutuzumab.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki showcased robust and durable antitumor activity in previously treated patients with HER2-mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki as a second-line treatment elicited a 38% confirmed objective response rate in Western patients with HER2-positive gastric/gastroesophageal junction cancer.

The addition of carboplatin to neoadjuvant paclitaxel followed by doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide significantly improved pathological complete response rates and event-free survival in patients with treatment-naïve triple-negative breast cancer.

The 2021 ESMO Congress, held as a virtual format for the second consecutive year, is fast approaching and isn’t holding back in terms of pivotal data across malignancies, especially in breast cancer and gynecologic cancers.

Pembrolizumab as an adjuvant therapy compared with placebo continued to showcase an impressive disease-free survival benefit in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma following nephrectomy, with improvement observed across subgroups.

Patients with microsatellite instability–high or mismatch repair–deficient prostate cancer may be more likely to respond to treatment with checkpoint inhibitors compared with those who have high tumor mutational burden.

The combination of durvalumab and Vicineum was found to be well tolerated and to elicit complete responses in patients with Bacillus-Calmette Guérin–unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Talquetamab, an off-the-shelf T-cell redirecting, GP3C5D-targeting agent, has continued to show promising clinical activity in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, especially when given at the recommended phase 2 dose of 405 µg/kg weekly in subcutaneous formulation.

Pirtobrutinib, showcased promising efficacy signals across dose levels in previously treated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma.

The first-line combination of durvalumab and chemotherapy, with or without tremelimumab, led to a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer, according to data from the phase 3 POSEIDON trial.

Mobocertinib demonstrated clinical activity in previously platinum-treated patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutation–positive non–small cell lung cancer whether or not they received a prior PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor.

The National Medical Products Administration in China has approved pembrolizumab for use in combination with platinum- and fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy for the frontline treatment of patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic esophageal carcinoma or gastroesophageal junction cancer.

Combining durvalumab and tremelimumab plus transcatheter arterial chemoembolization or radiofrequency ablation was found to be both efficacious and safe as a treatment for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, according to results of a pilot study.

Devimistat in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin has moved into the phase 2 portion of a phase 1b/2 trial studying the regimen as a first-line treatment for patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic biliary tract cancer.

The European Commission has granted an expanded approval to ravulizumab-cwvz to include children with a body weight of at least 10 kg, as well as adolescents, with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

The combination of cabozantinib and nivolumab as a neoadjuvant regimen led to encouraging margin-negative resection and major pathological response rates in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, according to results of a single-arm, phase 1b study that were published in Nature Cancer.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to gavocabtagene autoleucel as a potential treatment for patients with cholangiocarcinoma.

The combination of pevonedistat plus azacitidine as a frontline treatment for patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, and low-blast acute myeloid leukemia did not achieve predefined statistical significance for the primary end point of event-free survival in the phase 3 PANTHER trial.

Zanidatamab is being combined with tucatinib and capecitabine in a new cohort of a phase 1 trial of patients with locally advanced and/or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.

The addition of berzosertib to standard cisplatin/gemcitabine did not improve progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology released a new clinical guideline, which was also published in Practical Radiation Oncology, outlined recommendations and patient selection for optimal radiation dosing, sequencing, and treatment planning for patients with soft tissue sarcoma.

Ibrutinib demonstrated encouraging clinical responses in patients with variant-type, high-risk hairy cell leukemia.

The highly selective and potent CDK7 inhibitor SY-5609 is being tested in combination with atezolizumab in patients with molecularly defined subsets of colorectal cancer, as one of the cohorts of the ongoing, phase 1/1b INTRINSIC trial.

Amputations were found to be associated with Hispanic ethnicity and male sex in patients with neoplasms of the foot.