ASCO Annual Meeting

Lisa H. Butterfield, PhD, professor of medicine, surgery, and immunology, director, University of Pittsburgh Immunologic Monitoring and Cellular Products Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, president of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, discusses a clinical trial exploring the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in multiple subtypes of sarcoma.

Results from a phase I/II study demonstrated that enasidenib (AG-221) is well-tolerated and associated with a median overall survival of more than 9 months in patients with IDH2-mutated relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and Urology, co-director, Signal Transduction Research Program, Yale Cancer Center, 2017 Giant of Cancer Care in Genitourinary Cancer, discusses the KEYNOTE-045 trial investigating pembrolizumab (Keytruda) versus physician’s choice of chemotherapy for patients with urothelial carcinoma.

Patients with ovarian cancer who had a partial response to previous platinum-based therapy had superior progression-free survival with or without germline BRCA mutations after treatment with niraparib (Zejula), according to a posthoc analysis of data from the ENGOT-OV16/NOVA trial presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Ian W. Flinn, MD, PhD, director, Blood Cancer Research Program, principal investigator, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses 5-year follow-up of the BRIGHT study, which explored the combination of bendamustine and rituximab (BR) versus R-CHOP/R-CVP as a first-line treatment for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) or indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL).

In follow-up results to data first presented in December 2016, investigators found that the combination of olaparib (Lynparza) and cediranib maleate continued to show superior progression-free survival compared with olaparib alone for women with BRCA-negative recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.

Toni K. Choueiri, MD, clinical director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, senior physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses phase I results of axitinib (Inlyta) plus avelumab (Bavencio) for the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).