Tony Berberabe

Treatment with elacestrant led to a clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free-survival compared with standard-of-care therapy among patients with estrogen receptor–positive/HER2-negative, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer whose disease was deficient mismatch repair/microsatellite instability-high, TP53 mutated, or had no specific molecular profile, experienced a survival benefit when treated with dostarlimab-gxly plus chemotherapy vs placebo plus chemotherapy.

First-line treatment with itolizumab produced rapid, durable responses and favorable safety in patients with acute graft-vs-host disease.

Patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma who received the combination of pembrolizumab and axitinib over sunitinib showed a benefit in adjusted overall survival and type and timing of subsequent therapy in a second interim analysis of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-426 study.

Single-agent pemigatinib is being compared with gemcitabine plus cisplatin in patients with unresectable and/or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma whose tumor harbor FGFR2 fusions or rearrangements in the ongoing, phase 3 FIGHT-302 trial.

Talquetamab, when delivered at the recommended phase 2 dose of 405 µg/kg weekly, induced a high clinical response rate with favorable tolerabilty in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

December 9, 2020 - Whole breast irradiation, following breast-conserving surgery and adjuvant endocrine therapy, can be omitted from the treatment journey of low-risk, older patients with pT1-2 tumors (≥3 cm) who are on local control at 10 years.

Interim data from a phase 2 study indicate that neoadjuvant hormone therapy may reduce tumor volume in men with high-risk prostate cancer planning to undergo radical prostatectomy.

Compelling evidence has been presented about the various checkpoint inhibitors in bladder cancer, but, additionally there have been some provocative papers looking at genomic sequencing of upper tract compared with bladder that shows certain differences