Associate Editorial Director, OncLive®
Kristi Rosa joined MJH Life Sciences in 2016 and has since held several positions within the company. She helped launch the rapidly growing infectious disease news resource Contagion, strengthened the Rare Disease Report, of HCPLive, and now oversees OncLive and its flagship publication OncologyLive. Prior to working at the company, she served as lead copywriter and marketing coordinator at The Strand Theater. Email: [email protected]
Intravesical Bacillus Calmette–Guérin in combination with N-803 resulted in a 12-month disease-free survival rate of 57% in patients with BCG-unresponsive high-grade papillary non–muscle invasive bladder cancer, meeting the primary end point for cohort B of the phase 2/3 QUILT 3.032 trial.
The dismutase mimetic avasopasem manganese was not found to significantly reduce the incidence of severe oral mucositis in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer who were receiving standard-of-care radiotherapy, missing the primary end point of the phase 3 ROMAN trial.
The bicycle toxin conjugates BT5528 and BT8009 have showcased preliminary signs of antitumor activity and encouraging tolerability when administered to patients with solid tumors such as urothelial cancer and ovarian cancer.
Inguinofemoral radiotherapy could potentially spare patients with vulvar cancer and sentinel node micrometastases from the morbidity of a lymphadenectomy.
The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to LAVA-051, a CD1d-targeted Gammabody, for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The combination of sintilimab, a bevacizumab biosimilar injection, and chemotherapy resulted in a significant improvement in progression-free survival in patients with EGFR-mutated, nonsquamous, non–small cell lung cancer that as progressed following treatment with an EGFR TKI, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 ORIENT-31 trial.
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion regarding approval of the combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib for 2 indications: select patients with renal cell carcinoma and select patients with endometrial carcinoma.
A single, high priming dose of tremelimumab plus durvalumab resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival vs sorafenib when used in the frontline treatment of patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma who had not previously received systemic therapy and were not eligible for localized treatment.
The FDA has approved atezolizumab for use as an adjuvant treatment following resection and platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with stage II to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors have PD-L1 expression on ≥ 1% of tumor cells, as determined by an FDA-approved test.
The FDA has approved the Ki-67 IHC MIB-1 pharmDx test to assist in determining which patients with early breast cancer who are at high risk of disease recurrence might benefit from adjuvant treatment with abemaciclib plus endocrine therapy.
The European Medicines Agency has approved a shorter, 90-minute infusion time for obinutuzumab to be given in combination with chemotherapy in patients with previously treated or untreated advanced follicular lymphoma.
The allogeneic CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy CTX110 was found to elicit encouraging responses with favorable tolerability in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies, according to data from the phase 1 CARBON trial.
The FDA has approved pembrolizumab for use in combination with chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab, in patients with persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer whose tumors have a PD-L1 combined positive score of 1 or higher, as determined by an FDA-approved test.
The 18-month survival rates observed with axitinib plus pembrolizumab vs ipilimumab plus nivolumab in the frontline treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma were not found to be statistically different.
The FDA has approved abemaciclib in combination with endocrine therapy for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer at high risk of recurrence and a Ki-67 score of 20% or higher, as determined by an FDA-approved test.
Following a Type A meeting with the FDA to discuss deficiencies raised in a complete response letter pertaining to the new drug application for the use of oral paclitaxel encequidar in patients with metastatic breast cancer, the biopharmaceutical company Athenex, Inc. announced that their resources will be redeployed to focus on other studies examining oral paclitaxel.
The FDA has removed the full clinical hold that had previously been placed on trials evaluating rusfertide.
The FDA has granted a rare pediatric disease designation to lutetium-177-omburtamab-DTPA for use as a potential therapeutic option in pediatric patients with medulloblastoma, according to an announcement from Y-mAbs Therapeutics, Inc., the developer of the product.
The FDA has placed a hold on clinical trials examining Allogene Therapeutics, Inc.’s allogeneic CAR T-cell therapies for patients with cancer, following a report of a chromosomal abnormality in ALLO-501A CAR T cells in a patient who received treatment in the phase 1/2 ALPHA2 study.
The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to repotrectinib as a potential therapeutic option for patients with advanced solid tumors that harbor an NTRK gene fusion who have progressed after treatment with 1 or 2 prior TRK TKIs, with or without prior chemotherapy, and who have no satisfactory alternative options.
The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for use in adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have previously received 1 or more anti–HER2-based regimens.
The FDA has approved brexucabtagene autoleucel as a treatment for adult patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
The European Medicines Agency has validated its marketing authorization application for the fixed-dose combination of relatlimab and nivolumab in the frontline treatment of adult and pediatric patients with advanced melanoma.
A supplemental biologics license application has been submitted to the FDA to expand the current indication of the CAR T-cell therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel to include the second-line treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.
Epcoritamab had a manageable toxicity profile when subcutaneously administered to patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and was found to elicit encouraging responses in those who were heavily pretreated.
The FDA has granted a priority review designation to a new drug application for lutetium-177-PSMA-617 for use in the treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer following androgen receptor pathway inhibition and taxane-based chemotherapy.
The FDA has granted a fast track designation to the first-in-class nucleotide analogue NUC-1031 for use as a potential therapeutic option in the frontline treatment of patients with advanced biliary tract cancer.
Health Canada has approved infigratinib for the treatment of adult patients with previously treated, unresectable locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma harboring a FGFR2 fusion or other rearrangement.
The frontline triplet combination comprised of acalabrutinib, venetoclax, and obinutuzumab proved to be highly active and well tolerated when used in the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The FDA has granted approval of a new indication for cetuximab plus encorafenib for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with a BRAF V600E mutation, as detected by a FDA-approved test, after prior therapy.
