Kristi Rosa

The utilization of oral azacitidine as maintenance treatment in patients with acute myeloid leukemia in first remission following intensive chemotherapy continued to showcase a survival benefit over placebo.

The addition of ublituximab and umbralisib to ibrutinib produced deep remissions with favorable tolerability in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who previously received ibrutinib and still had detectable minimal residual disease.

Fixed-duration treatment with the bispecific antibody mosunetuzumab induced deep and durable responses with favorable tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma, meeting the primary end point of the ongoing phase 1/2b GO29781 trial.

The dual immunotherapy combination comprised of nivolumab and ipilimumab improved overall survival vs chemotherapy in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer, irrespective of KRAS, TP53, or STK11 mutational status, according to data from exploratory analyses of part 1 of the CheckMate-227 trial.

The addition of the bispecific antibody zanidatamab to single-agent chemotherapy was found to produce promising antitumor activity with acceptable tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

The FDA has approved FoundationOne CDx for use as a companion diagnostic for 2 groups of current a future regulatory-approved treatments in melanoma, including single-agent BRAF inhibitors targeting BRAF V600E mutations and BRAF/MEK combination regimens targeting BRAF V600E or V600K mutations.

A new drug application seeking the approval of poziotinib as a potential therapeutic option for patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer with HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations has been submitted to the FDA.

Secura Bio, Inc. has decided to voluntarily withdraw the indication of duvelisib for use in patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma following at least 2 previous systemic therapies.

The FDA has approved pembrolizumab for the adjuvant treatment of adult and pediatric patients with stage IIB or IIC melanoma following complete resection.

The addition of darolutamide to docetaxel and androgen deprivation therapy resulted in a significant improvement in overall survival compared with docetaxel/ADT alone in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 ARASENS trial.

The FDA has granted priority review to the supplemental biologics license application for luspatercept-aamt for the treatment of anemia in adults with non–transfusion dependent β-thalassemia.

The FDA has approved rituximab plus chemotherapy for pediatric patients with previously untreated, advanced stage, CD20-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, Burkitt-like lymphoma, or mature B-cell acute leukemia.

Secura Bio decided to withdraw the approval of the new drug application for panobinostat for use in combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone to treat select patients with multiple myeloma.

The FDA’s Centers for Devices and Radiological Health has granted a breakthrough device designation to ZetaMet technology for use in the treatment of metastatic bone cancers and osteologic interventions.

The FDA has approved daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj plus carfilzomib and dexamethasone for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have received 1 to 3 prior lines of therapy.

The FDA has issued a complete response letter to the new drug application seeking the approval of plinabulin in combination with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.

The FDA has extended the review period for the new drug application for pacritinib as a treatment for adult patients with intermediate- or high-risk primary or secondary (post-polycythemia vera or post-essential thrombocythemia) myelofibrosis and severe thrombocytopenia with a baseline platelet count of 50 x 109/L.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to arfolitixorin as a potential therapeutic option for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

The FDA has approved maribavir for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years and older weighing at least 35 kg who have post-transplant cytomegalovirus infection that does not respond to available antiviral treatment.

The targeted small molecule inhibitor of the E26 transformation-specific family of oncoproteins, ONCT-216, produced notable response and disease control rates when delivered at the recommended phase 2 dose to heavily pretreated patients with Ewing sarcoma.

The European Commission granted marketing authorization for sacituzumab govitecan-hziy for use as a monotherapy in the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who have previously received 2 or more systemic therapies, at least 1 of them for advanced disease.

The FDA has approved sirolimus albumin-bound particles for injectable suspension for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic malignant perivascular epithelioid cell tumor.

The addition of sintilimab to a bevacizumab biosimilar and pemetrexed/cisplatin resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival vs chemotherapy alone in patients with EGFR-mutated, nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer who progressed after an EGFR TKI.

The European Commission has granted a conditional marketing authorization to pralsetinib for use as a single agent in adult patient with RET fusion–positive advanced non–small cell lung cancer who did not previously receive a RET inhibitor.

The addition of quizartinib to chemotherapy resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival vs standard chemotherapy alone in patients with newly diagnosed, FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.

The FDA has approved pembrolizumab for the adjuvant treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma who are at intermediate-high or high risk of recurrence following nephrectomy, or following nephrectomy and resection of metastatic lesions.

Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy significantly improved overall response rate in Chinese patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

The combination of the PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody AK112 and the PARP inhibitor olaparib is under investigation as a potential treatment option for patients with BRCA1/2 germline wild-type, platinum-sensitive, recurrent ovarian cancer as part of a phase 1b/2 trial.

The investigative agent SL-172154 was found to be well tolerated, with no dose-limiting toxicities observed, in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, according to findings from a phase 1 dose-escalation trial presented during the 2021 SITC Annual Meeting.

The FDA granted an orphan drug designation to toripalimab for the treatment of patients with esophageal cancer.