The OncLive® Global Oncology condition center page is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and international expert insights on treatment of patients with cancer. This page features articles focused on ex-US regulatory news, interviews in written and video format, and podcasts that focus on unmet needs, treatment advances, and ongoing global research in oncology care.
July 26th 2024
The EMA's CHMP has recommended zolbetuximab plus chemotherapy in select locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or GEJ cancer.
Community Practice Connections™: 14th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies
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Advances In™: Targeting PSMA to Advance Diagnosis And Management Of Patients With Prostate Cancer
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Clinical Case Vignette Series: Integrating Recent Data into Practice to Improve Outcomes in Advanced Prostate Cancer
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Community Practice Connections™: The Advent of TROP2-Targeted Treatment Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates from Chicago in Breast Cancer
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Community Practice Connections™: 8th Annual School of Gastrointestinal Oncology®
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B-Cell Tumor Board: Rendering Real World Personalized Treatment Plans in CLL/SLL and MCL Through the Lens of Emerging BTKi Evidence
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Show Me the Data™: Do We Have Sea Change for Novel Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer? CDK, PI3K/AKT, ADC, and Next-Gen SERD Strategies Assessed
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Community Practice Connections™: Controversies and Conversations About HER2- Expressing Breast Cancer…Advances in Management of HER2-Low to -Positive Disease
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8th Annual School of Nursing Oncology™
August 10, 2024
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7th Annual Live Medical Crossfire®: Hematologic Malignancies
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates in RCC from Chicago
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Community Practice Connections™: Integrating BTK Inhibitors Into the CLL/SLL and MCL Treatment Paradigm
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Community Practice Connections™: 7th Annual International Congress on Oncology Pathology
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Community Practice Connections™: What the Community Needs to Know to Apply RLT in PSMA-Positive mCRPC in Context with Current Treatment Paradigms
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San Diego Lung Symposia
September 7, 2024 - September 8, 2024
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Pathology Implications for CEACAM5 as a Therapeutic Target in Advanced NSCLC
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Medical Crossfire®: What Are Effective Strategies for Onco-Nurses to Improve Outcomes in Patients with Small Cell Lung Cancer?
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2023 ASCO Direct™ Highlights: Practice-Changing Data From the Leading Oncology Conference
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Taking a Critical Look at Healthcare Inequity Among Patients with Cancer: What Role Do Onco-Nurses Play?
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Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy in Melanoma: Where We Are, and Where We Aren’t
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2024 International Symposium of Gastrointestinal Oncology (ISGIO)
October 11-12, 2024
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Virtual Show Me the Data™: How HER2, HER3, and TROP2 Targeted Strategies Will Impact Evolving Paradigms in NSCLC
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Applying New Evidence in Multiple Myeloma Care from Frontline to R/R Disease
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42nd Annual CFS®: Innovative Cancer Therapy for Tomorrow®
November 13-15, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 5th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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Community Practice Connections™: Clinical Updates from Chicago – A Focus on What Community Centers Need to Know to Move Their Solid Tumors' Practices Forward
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Tumor Agnostic Trials and the Reshaping of Precision Medicine in Oncology: A Focus on TSC1/2 Mutations
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Medical Crossfire®: How Does Recent Evidence on PARP Inhibitors and Combinations Inform Treatment Planning for Prostate Cancer Now and In the Future?
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Medical Crossfire®: How Do Clinicians Integrate the Latest Evidence in Treating Ovarian Cancer to Personalize Care?
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EMA Endorses Cemiplimab Approval in Advanced Cervical Cancer
October 14th 2022The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion for cemiplimab monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer with disease progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy.
China Green Lights Olaparib for First-line Maintenance in HRD+ Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Olaparib plus bevacizumab was approved in China as a first-line maintenance treatment for homologous recombination deficiency–positive ovarian cancer following a response to platinum-based chemotherapy plus bevacizumab.
Frontline Toripalimab Plus Chemotherapy Approved in China for Advanced Nonsquamous NSCLC
The China National Medical Products Administration has approved the supplemental new drug application seeking the approval of toripalimab plus pemetrexed and platinum as a frontline treatment in unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic, nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer not harboring EGFR mutations or ALK fusions.
Zanubrutinib Approaches European Approval for Marginal Zone Lymphoma
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of zanubrutinib for use in adult patients with marginal zone lymphoma who have received at least 1 prior anti–CD20-based therapy.
Relatlimab Plus Nivolumab Approved in Europe for Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma with PD-L1 <1%
The European Commission has approved the fixed-dose combination of relatlimab plus nivolumab for use in the frontline treatment of select patients with advanced or metastatic melanoma and a PD-L1 expression of less than 1% on tumor cells.
European Commission Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Nana-val for Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma
The European Commission has granted an orphan drug designation to nanatinostat and valganciclovir for use as a potential therapeutic option in patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma.
Approval Sought for Tafasitamab/Lenalidomide Combo in R/R DLBCL in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Department of Health has accepted for review a biologics license application seeking the approval of tafasitamab plus lenalidomide in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Daiichi Sankyo Submits sNDA for Quizartinib in Newly Diagnosed FLT3-ITD+ AML in Japan
Daiichi Sankyo submitted a supplemental new drug application to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare for the use of quizartinib in patients with newly diagnosed, FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.
EU Approves Asciminib for Ph+ CML in Chronic Phase After 2 or More TKIs
The European Commission has approved asciminib for the treatment of patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positive chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase who received prior treatment with at least 2 TKIs
Fixed-Duration Ibrutinib Plus Venetoclax Wins EU Approval in Previously Untreated CLL
The European Commission has approved the fixed-duration, all-oral combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax for the frontline treatment of adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
European Commission Grants Conditional Marketing Authorization to Teclistamab for Multiple Myeloma
The European Commission has granted conditional marketing authorization to teclistamab for use as a single agent in adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least 3 prior therapies, including an immunomodulatory drug, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 antibody.
European Union Green Lights PD-L1 Companion Diagnostic for Adjuvant Atezolizumab in NSCLC
August 24th 2022CE label expansion was granted to the Ventana PD-L1 assay for use as a companion diagnostic to identify patients with non–small cell lung cancer who are eligible for treatment with adjuvant atezolizumab.
Tislelizumab/Chemo Combo Takes Step Toward Chinese Approval for Unresectable ESCC
The China National Medical Products Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation has accepted for review a supplemental biologics application seeking the approval of tislelizumab plus chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable, locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
EMA Accepts Marketing Authorization Application for Fixed-Dose Decitabine/Cedazuridine Combo in AML
August 22nd 2022The European Medicines Agency has accepted the marketing authorization application for the oral fixed-dose combination of decitabine and cedazuridine for the frontline treatment of adults with acute myeloid leukemia who are not candidates for standard induction chemotherapy.
The United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has extended the conditional marketing authorization of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for single-agent use in adult patients in Great Britain who have HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic breast cancer and have received 1 or more prior HER2-based regimens.
European Commission Approves Melphalan Flufenamide for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma
August 18th 2022The European Commission has approved melphalan flufenamide for use in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of adult patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least 3 prior therapies.
Sintilimab Combo Extends PFS in Previously Treated EGFR-Mutated NSCLC
Sintilimab in combination with a bevacizumab biosimilar plus pemetrexed and cisplatin induced a progression-free survival benefit of 2.6 months compared with chemotherapy alone for patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer, according to interim findings from the ongoing phase 3 ORIENT-31 trial.
Ropeginterferon Alfa-2b Proves to be Efficacious, Safe in Japanese Patients with Polycythemia Vera
Ropeginterferon alfa-2b produced durable complete hematologic responses without phlebotomy and showcased a consistent safety profile in Japanese patients with polycythemia vera, according to findings from a phase 2 study (NCT04182100) presented during the 2022 EHA Congress.
Relatlimab Plus Nivolumab Approaches EU Approval for Advanced Melanoma With PD-L1 of <1%
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of the fixed-dose combination of nivolumab and relatlimab for the frontline treatment of adult and adolescents who are 12 years of age or older with advanced melanoma and a tumor cell PD-L1 expression of less than 1%.
Eltanexor Gets FDA Fast Track Status and Orphan Medicinal Product Designation in Europe for MDS
Eltanexor has been granted a fast track designation from the FDA and an orphan medicinal product designation from the European Commission for use as a potential therapeutic option in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.
Selinexor Combo Approved in Europe for Multiple Myeloma After at Least 1 Prior Therapy
The European Commission granted a full marketing authorization to selinexor in combination with once-weekly bortezomib and low-dose dexamethasone for the treatment of adults with multiple myeloma who have received at least 1 previous therapy.
Axi-cel Gains European Approval for Relapsed/Refractory Follicular Lymphoma
The European Commission has granted approval to axicabtagene ciloleucel for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma after 3 or more prior lines of systemic therapy.
Olaparib Approaches EU Approval for BRCA+, High-Risk Early Breast Cancer
June 27th 2022The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of olaparib for the adjuvant treatment of patients with germline BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative, high-risk, early breast cancer who have received neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy.