Matthew Fowler

Patient-reported outcome data support a favorable benefit/risk profile for the combination of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab, in patients with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer.

Enfortumab vedotin produced promising antitumor activity when used as neoadjuvant treatment in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer who were not eligible for cisplatin.

The addition of nivolumab to encorafenib and cetuximab elicited a high response rate and an acceptable safety profile in patients with refractory microsatellite stable, BRAF V600E–mutant metastatic colorectal cancer, according to findings from a phase 1/2 trial.

The 60mg phase 2 dose of selinexor plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone produced more durable and deep responses than the lesser selinexor dose for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

Minimal residual disease–negativity rates were significantly higher after utilizing daratumumab plus bortezomib, thalidomide, and dexamethasone (VTd) vs VTd alone in patients with newly diagnosed, transplant-eligible multiple myeloma, according to findings from the phase 3 CASSIOPEIA study that were presented at the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

First-line treatment with ribociclib/letrozole improved overall survival over placebo in patients with postmenopausal, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, irrespective of metastatic site, number of sites, or prior (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy and endocrine therapy.

When added to androgen-deprivation therapy, abiraterone acetate and prednisolone with or without enzalutamide for 2 years improved survival outcomes in men with high-risk nonmetastatic prostate cancer.

Melphalan flufenamide (melflufen) plus dexamethasone demonstrated an improvement in progression-free survival vs pomalidomide/dexamethasone in patients with transplant-naïve relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Susan M. O’Brien, MD always knew medicine was the field for her. Growing up in a house full of bankers and finance-oriented family members couldn’t deter her from her chosen path.

For patients with newly diagnosed or relapsed multiple myeloma, regardless of transplant status, daratumumab plus cyclophosphamide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone induction followed by daratumumab maintenance therapy achieved durable and deep responses.

Patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who were treated with ciltacabtagene autoleucel experienced improved outcomes over those who received a conventional therapy

Ciltacabtagene autoleucel demonstrated efficacious responses and significant improvements in survival over standard of care in triple class–relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The addition of lenvatinib to pembrolizumab elicited a notable survival benefit and improved responses over single-agent sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma across evaluable International Metastatic RCC Database Consortium risk subgroups.

Ibrutinib plus venetoclax produced a complete response and complete response with incomplete bone marrow recovery rate of 56% in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma.

Single-agent ibrutinib given in the first-line setting sustained a progression-free survival and overall survival benefit compared with chlorambucil as therapy for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia at 7-year follow-up.

Adavosertib plus irinotecan showed early activity in a cohort of pediatric patients with neuroblastoma, thus meeting the protocol-defined efficacy end point of the 1/2 ADVL1312 trial.

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab was found to induce significant antitumor activity when administered to patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and immunogenic signature.

Neoadjuvant treatment with nivolumab combined with chemotherapy led to a significant improvement in pathologic complete response compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer.

February 9, 2021 - JSP191 in combination with low-dose total body irradiation and fludarabine has demonstrated efficacy and tolerability in older patients with minimal residual disease–positive acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome who are undergoing nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

January 28, 2021 — Frontline pembrolizumab continued to demonstrate clinically meaningful improvements in overall survival, overall response rate, and time to progression on next-line therapy compared with platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic PD-L1–positive non–small cell lung cancer without sensitizing EGFR or ALK mutations.

January 16, 2021 - Health-related quality of life during an 18-week period proved to be similar over for patients with esophageal cancer treated with either pembrolizumab or placebo added to chemotherapy.

Daratumumab plus lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone followed by daratumumab and lenalidomide maintenance showed a statistically significant improvement in response rates and depth of responses when compared to RVd followed by lenalidomide maintenance for patients with transplant-eligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Spartalizumab plus dabrafenib did not significantly improve progression-free survival over dabrafenib/trametinib in patients with untreated BRAF V600-mutant unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

Mirvetuximab soravtansine in combination with bevacizumab to treat patients with platinum-agnostic ovarian cancer demonstrated encouraging overall response rates regardless of platinum status with a favorable tolerability profile.

A phase III study using cediranib and olaparib to treat recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer did not meet its primary endpoint of progression-free survival but did produce comparable activity to standard of care platinum-based chemotherapy treatment.

Savolitinib showed encouraging efficacy data and an improved safety profile versus sunitinib as a treatment for patients with MET-driven papillary renal cell carcinoma.