ASCO Annual Meeting

Adjuvant everolimus significantly improved recurrence-free survival when compared with placebo in patients with very high-risk renal cell carcinoma.

Cabozantinib plus atezolizumab demonstrated promising clinical activity and a suitable safety profile as first-line therapy in patients with cisplatin- eligible and -ineligible, inoperable locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer and as second- or later-line therapy in those who received a prior immune checkpoint inhibitor, according to findings from the phase 1b COSMIC-021 trial.

Results of the ATLANTIS study do not support further investigation of cabozantinib alone as a maintenance therapy after platinum-based chemotherapy in unselected patients with advanced urothelial cancer.

Avasopasem significantly reduced severe oral mucositis across all intensity-modulated radiotherapy landmarks in patients with locally advanced, nonmetastatic head and neck cancer.

Alexander I. Spira, MD, PhD, FACP, discusses the adagrasib in patients with non–small cell lung cancer in the phase 2 KRYSTAL-1 trial.

Brentuximab vedotin plus doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine demonstrated a significant reduction in the risk of death vs doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine, with a manageable safety profile consistent with prior findings in patients with previously untreated stage III/IV classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

The selective EGFR inhibitor CLN-081 elicited objective responses in heavily pretreated patients with non–small cell lung cancer with EGFR exon 20 insertions and was found to have an acceptable toxicity profile, according to data from the phase 1/2a CLN-081-001 trial.

Michael Wang, MD, discusses the results of the phase 3 SHINE trial in older patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

The addition of ramucirumab to pembrolizumab elicited significant response among patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer who experienced disease progression following treatment with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy.

Treatment with the anti–PD-L1 IgG4 antibody sugemalimab resulted in a response for nearly half of patients and a complete response in one-third of patients with relapsed or refractory extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma.

Ibrutinib in combination with bendamustine and rituximab with rituximab maintenance elicited a significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with standard chemoimmunotherapy in older patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Uliledlimab in combination with toripalimab generated notable response rates in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer who were previously ineligible to receive standard-of-care treatment.

Black patients were less likely to be included in clinical trials that investigate newer treatments for metastatic breast cancer, despite having the highest death rate and shortest survival outcomes when compared with other racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Increased spending on state public welfare programs was associated with a higher 5-year overall survival rate among Black patients.

Disparities in access to telehealth for cancer care were seen across more than 20 tumor types, according to study findings that were presented during a press briefing ahead of the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Non-White Hispanic children and those with public insurance care in a clinical trial for high-risk neuroblastoma had inferior overall survival rates compared with other children.

The 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting returns to Chicago, Illinois, with an agenda highlighting primary outcomes as well as extended follow-up data across malignancies.

The safety and efficacy of encorafenib plus cetuximab with or without standard-of-care chemotherapy will be compared with that of chemotherapy alone in patients with BRAF V600E–mutated metastatic colorectal cancer as part of the phase 3 BREAKWATER trial.

Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, discusses ongoing research with amcenestrant and palbociclib in estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Sarat Chandarlapaty, MD, PhD, highlights responses to amcenestrant and palbociclib in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, as seen in the phase 1/2 AMEERA 1 trial.

Margaret von Mehren, MD, discusses outcomes with ribociclib and everolimus in dedifferentiated liposarcoma, as seen in the phase 2 SAR-096 trial.

Treatment with the allogeneic CAR T-cell product ALLO-501A elicited encouraging signals of clinical activity when used with ALLO-647 lymphodepletion in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma who did not previously receive autologous CAR T-cell therapy.

Week 24 transfusion independence was associated with an improvement in overall survival vs week 24 transfusion dependence in patients with myelofibrosis who were randomized to momelotinib in the phase 3 SIMPLIFY 1 and SIMPLIFY 2 trials.

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant should be considered a standard of care option for patients with high-risk myelofibrosis, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis.

The combination of regorafenib plus pembrolizumab in the first-line setting for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma showed encouraging anti-tumor activity with a disease control rate of 91%, and did not display any new safety signals.

The hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha inhibitor belzutifan maintained clinical efficacy with further follow-up in patients with Von-Hippel Lindau–associated renal cell carcinoma, as well as other VHL-associated neoplasms.