Global Oncology

The European Commission has approved toripalimab in indications for nasopharyngeal carcinoma and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab has been approved in Japan for first-line radically unresectable urothelial carcinoma.

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare approved fruquintinib in metastatic colorectal cancer following progression with chemotherapy.

The CHMP has recommended the European approval of serplulimab for the first-line treatment of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

The EMA's CHMP has recommended the approval of subcutaneous daratumumab plus VRd in patients with newly diagnosed, transplant-eligible multiple myeloma.

The CHMP has issued positive opinions for 2 pembrolizumab-based regimens for select patients with endometrial and cervical cancers.

The EMA’s CHMP has recommended the marketing authorization of mirvetuximab soravtansine for FRα-positive, platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian cancer.

Tislelizumab has been approved by the Israeli Ministry of Health for pretreated patients with unresectable or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Adding ribociclib to a NSAI in the adjuvant setting prolonged invasive and distant disease-free survival in HR-positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer.

Pembrolizumab continued to demonstrate improved survival vs ipilimumab in unresectable stage III or IV melanoma.

Ramucirumab plus trifluridine/tipiracil failed to improve overall survival vs TAS-102 alone in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic colorectal cancer.

Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab, improved overall survival in triple-negative breast cancer.

The addition of retifanlimab to carboplatin and paclitaxel prolonged PFS for patients with chemotherapy-naive recurrent or metastatic SCAC.

Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes may have prognostic utility for OS outcomes with adjuvant chemotherapy and trastuzumab in early HER2-positive breast cancer.

Pembrolizumab plus chemoradiotherapy improved survival in previously untreated, high-risk locally advanced cervical cancer.

The combination of encorafenib and binimetinib showed anti-tumor responses in treatment-naïve BRAF V600E-mutant advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Response predictive subtype–guided treatment identified patient cohorts with breast cancer that were more likely to achieve pCR with Dato-DXd plus durvalumab.

A lower dose of pembrolizumab may be as effective as the standard dose for treating stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.

First-line combinations with trastuzumab deruxtecan showed initial efficacy in HER2-positive esophageal, gastric, and gastroesophageal junction cancers.

The novel ALK inhibitor NVL-655 demonstrated encouraging activity in heavily pretreated patients with advanced ALK-positive NSCLC.

Amivantamab plus chemotherapy yielded promising OS trends compared with chemotherapy in EGFR-mutant advanced NSCLC after disease progression on osimertinib.

Treatment with belrestotug plus dostarlimab yielded a clinically meaningful improvement in ORR vs dostarlimab monotherapy in unresectable PD-L1–high NSCLC.

BMS-986012 plus nivolumab and chemotherapy provided a modest PFS benefit but signals of OS improvement in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

Tusamitamab ravtansine vs docetaxel was not significantly different regarding survival in patients with advanced nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.

When compared with osimertinib, amivantamab plus lazertinib showed a trend toward favorable overall survival in patients with EGFR-mutant advanced NSCLC.

An exploratory analysis from the TROPION-Lung 01 study shows that positivity for TROP2 normalized membrane ratio can be predictive for improved efficacy in patients with non–small cell lung cancer treated with datopotamab deruxtecan.

Several novel combinations yielded high pCR and mPR rates in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer, according to data from the 2024 IASLC conference.

Ivonescimab produced a significant improvement in PFS vs pembrolizumab as frontline therapy in patients with PD-L1–positive advanced NSCLC.

A 12-mg/kg dose of ifinatamab deruxtecan improved efficacy compared with an 8-mg/kg dose in heavily pretreated patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

Encorafenib plus binimetinib has won approval from the European Commission for use in patients with BRAF V600E-mutated, advanced non–small lung cancer.