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]
November 10, 2020 - The combination of pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib significantly improved progression-free survival, overall survival, and the objective response rate compared with sunitinib, when used in the frontline treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
November 10, 2020 - The European Union approved the next-generation BTK inhibitor acalabrutinib for use in adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The phase 3 KEYNOTE-598 trial evaluating the dual immunotherapy combination comprised of pembrolizumab and ipilimumab as frontline treatment in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who have a PD-L1 tumor proportion score of 50% or greater and do not harbor any EGFR or ALK aberrations has been discontinued.
The oncology community has risen up as a unified front in the battle against coronavirus disease 2019, launching pivotal research efforts to better understand the enemy and collecting data to develop effective therapeutics to fill the treatment arsenal.
The FDA has approved the FoundationOne Liquid CDx for use as a companion diagnostic with olaparib, which is indicated for select patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline or somatic homologous recombination repair gene–mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
The combination of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab demonstrated encouraging antitumor activity in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma who had progressed on prior PD-1 or PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.
Neratinib showcased early activity when used in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who harbor EGFR exon 18 mutations.
The European Commission has approved the combination of nivolumab plus ipilimumab with 2 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy for the up-front treatment of adult patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer without a sensitizing EGFR mutation or an ALK translocation.
Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, MD, discusses the efforts that The National Cancer Institute has made to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
The European Union has approved olaparib in combination with bevacizumab for use as a first-line maintenance treatment in patients with homologous recombination deficient–positive advanced ovarian cancer.
A Type II variation application has been submitted by Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to the European Medicines Agency for the subcutaneous formulation of daratumumab in combination with bortezomib, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone for use in adult patients with light-chain amyloidosis.
The European Union has approved olaparib for use in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who harbor BRCA1/2 mutations.
Single-agent selinexor resulted in a statistically significant prolongation of progression-free survival in patients with advanced unresectable dedifferentiated liposarcoma, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 SEAL trial.
The FDA has lifted the clinical hold placed on the phase 1 PSMA-101-001 study of the CAR T-cell therapy P-PSMA-101 in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
The European Commission has approved the combination of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab for use in adult patients with advanced or unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma who have not been given previous systemic therapy.
The FDA has approved the cobas EGFR Mutation Test v2 as a companion diagnostic for EGFR TKIs in the treatment of patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.
The China National Medical Products Administration has approved the combination of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab for use in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma who have not received previous systemic therapy.
The European Commission has approved niraparib for use as a frontline monotherapy maintenance option in adult patients with advanced epithelial, high-grade ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who are in complete or partial response after platinum-based chemotherapy.
The FDA has granted a priority review designation to a supplemental biologics license application for cemiplimab-rwlc for the frontline treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer with a PD-L1 expression of 50% or greater.
The addition of anti–PD-1/PD-L1 to combination BRAF and MEK inhibition has been shown to improve progression-free survival and duration of response in patients with BRAF-mutated melanoma, suggesting potential to overcome resistance to targeted approaches.
Delaying treatment for up to 7 days so that genomic data can be utilized to inform a personalized treatment approach is safe, feasible, and can improve overall survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia.
The use of advanced molecular imaging with the PET radiotracer fluciclovine (18F) to inform treatment decisions can lead to improved disease-free survival rates in patients with recurrent prostate cancer.
The FDA has accepted and granted a priority review designation to a supplemental biologics license application for the antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan for use in patients with HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
A supplemental application was submitted to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare for Manufacturing and Marketing approval of the combination of cabozantinib plus nivolumab for the treatment of patients with unresectable, advanced, or metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
The FDA has approved the FoundationOne Liquid CDx for use as a companion diagnostic for 3 targeted therapies: alpelisib in advanced or metastatic breast cancer, rucaparib in advanced ovarian cancer, and alectinib in a specific type of metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.
PLX8394, a next-generation BRAF inhibitor, in combination with cobicistat was found to demonstrate encouraging clinical activity with an acceptable safety profile in patients with BRAF-mutated, refractory solid tumors.
Adagrasib, a potent and selective inhibitor of KRAS G12C, showcased encouraging clinical activity with an acceptable safety profile in patients with KRAS G12C–positive non–small cell lung cancer, colorectal cancer, and other solid tumors.
The novel HER3-targeted antibody-drug conjugate patritumab deruxtecan is currently being investigated in a phase 2 trial as a potential treatment for patients with advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer who are resistant, refractory, or intolerant to at least 2 previous lines of systemic therapy.
Afatinib was found to be effective when used in Asian and non-Asian patients with non–small cell lung cancer with major uncommon and compound EGFR mutations, irrespective of ethnicity.
Afatinib was found to be effective and well tolerated when used as a second-line treatment in patients with metastatic squamous carcinoma of the lung.
