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: krosa@onclive.com
The CCR5 antagonist leronlimab plus carboplatin was shown to result in a 72% decrease in cancer-associated macrophage-like cells, which was linked with an approximate 450% increase in overall survival in 30 patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.
The novel gene-mediated immunotherapy GEN-1 showcased satisfactory safety with an acceptable risk/benefit profile when given over a 6-month period with up to 17 doses in newly diagnosed patients with stage III/IV ovarian cancer.
The Chinese National Medical Products Administration has approved durvalumab plus standard-of-care platinum chemotherapy, in the form of etoposide plus either carboplatin or cisplatin, as a frontline treatment option for patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.
Belumosudil induced clinically meaningful, durable responses in patients with chronic graft-versus-host-disease, irrespective of previous treatment received, severity of disease, and number of organs involved.
The FDA has granted a fast track designation to trilaciclib for use in combination with chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer
Ruxolitinib continued to result in a significant improvement in overall response rate compared with best available therapy in patients with steroid-refractory/dependent chronic graft-vs-host disease, regardless of the individual organs involved at baseline.
The FDA has approved the FoundationOne Liquid CDx for use as a companion diagnostic to assist in the identification of patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor MET exon 14 skipping mutations and who could derive benefit from treatment with capmatinib.
The FDA has approved belumosudil for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older with chronic graft-versus-host disease following failure of at least 2 prior lines of systemic therapy.
A Late-Cycle Meeting was held to discuss the biologics license application for Vicineum as a potential option for patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
Nivolumab plus ipilimumab did not significantly improve overall survival over the EXTREME regimen in the frontline treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, missing the primary end points of the phase 3 CheckMate-651 trial.
Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant single-agent pembrolizumab was found to significantly improve event-free survival over neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by adjuvant placebo in patients with high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.
The combination of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab elicited encouraging, durable responses in patients with advanced malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, irrespective of tumor mutational burden and PD-L1 expression status.
The FDA has lifted a partial clinical hold that was placed on a first-in-human, phase 1b trial evaluating RVU120 in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.
The combination of bempegaldesleukin plus nivolumab continued to produce promising antitumor activity with favorable tolerability when used in the frontline treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma, according to findings from a phase 2 cohort of the phase 1/2 PIVOT-2 trial.
The FDA has granted a fast track designation to berubicin as a potential therapeutic option for patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme.
The FDA has approved daratumumab plus hyaluronidase-fihj (Darzalex Faspro) plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone for the treatment of adult patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least 1 prior line of therapy, including lenalidomide and a proteasome inhibitor
The combination of belapectin plus pembrolizumab has demonstrated early potential for disease control with acceptable tolerability in patients with metastatic melanoma and head and neck cancer.
Patients with a urological cancer who were also infected with COVID-19 and undergoing elective surgery for their disease, were found to have a significantly higher likelihood of experiencing respiratory complications and mortality than those without the virus.
The FDA has granted a regular approval to enfortumab vedotin-ejfv and has expanded the agent's indication to include adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who are ineligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy and who have received 1 or more prior lines of therapy.
The combination of INN melphalan flufenamide and dexamethasone was found to induce a superior progression-free survival benefit over pomalidomide plus dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who had previously received 2 to 4 lines of therapy, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 OCEAN trial.
The investigational RNA interference therapy, ARO-HIF2, was shown to have encouraging signals of activity with favorable tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
The tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy LN-145 was found to induce an objective response rate of 21.4% in patients with advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who had progressed following systemic therapy.
The novel combination comprised of rigosertib and nivolumab showed preliminary evidence of potential anticancer activity in patients with advanced metastatic KRAS-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.
Athenex, Inc. held a Type A meeting with the FDA to discuss the deficiencies raised in the complete response letter issued in March 2021 for the new drug application for oral paclitaxel plus encequidar in the treatment of patients with metastatic breast cancer.
Merck has announced plans to withdraw the accelerated approval indication for pembrolizumab in the treatment of select patients with recurrent locally advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma whose tumors express a PD-L1 combined positive score of 1 or more, and who have progressed on or after 2 or more previous lines of therapy, including fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy, and HER2-/neu-targeted therapy, if appropriate.
The FDA has expanded the label for pembrolizumab for use as a monotherapy in the treatment of patients with locally advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma that is not curable by surgery or radiation.
An independent data monitoring committee has recommended that the phase 3 ARMADA 200 trial examining devimistat plus high-dose cytarabine and mitoxantrone in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia continue as planned.
The FDA has approved FoundationOne CDx for use as a companion diagnostic for brigatinib, which was approved for the treatment of adult patients with ALK-positive, metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.
The FDA has approved a labeling supplement to the US prescribing information for neratinib that includes the dose-escalated use of the agent in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, as examined in the phase 2 CONTROL trial, and the new 133-count commercial Nerlynx SKU.
The FDA has accepted the filing of the new drug application for surufatinib as a potential therapeutic option for patients with pancreatic and extra-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
