Hannah Slater

When George P. Canellos, MD, first joined the field of oncology in the 1960s, many of his peers thought he was making huge mistake.

February 11, 2021 - A conditioning regimen comprised of targeted radiation with Iomab-B led to a lower incidence of sepsis as well as trends toward reduced rates of severe mucositis and febrile neutropenia versus conventional care and standard conditioning regimens in older adults with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia.

January 29, 2021 - The first-in-class oral kinase inhibitor bemcentinib, when used in combination with pembrolizumab, demonstrated clinical activity with favorable tolerability in patients with checkpoint inhibitor–naïve and CPI-refractory composite AXL–positive non–small cell lung cancer.

January 15, 2021 - Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in combination with capecitabine and bevacizumab (Avastin) was found to show encouraging tolerability when used in patients with microsatellite stable (MSS) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), according to data from a phase 2 trial (NCT03396926) presented during the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

The addition of tucatinib to trastuzumab and capecitabine in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer with and without brain metastases resulted in statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in progression-free and overall survival.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel; Yescarta) demonstrated significant and durable clinical benefit as well as a manageable safety profile in patients with relapsed or refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Relugolix (Relumina) demonstrated superiority over leuprolide (Lupron) in sustained testosterone (T)-suppression through 48 weeks in patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Results from the TheraP trial found that in men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer who progressed after treatment with docetaxel, 177Lu-PSMA-617 was more active than cabazitaxel.

Novel antibody-drug conjugates have demonstrated high response rates in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic breast cancer, and ongoing studies targeting actionable cell-surface markers may further expand their clinical utility, according to Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH.