ESMO Congress

The 2023 ESMO Congress, which is taking place in Madrid, Spain, and will continue to be accessible online via a virtual platform, is gearing up to kick off, and the oncology community is ready to learn more about the latest data across malignancies.

Alpelisib decreased the need for surgery and led to improvements in performance status and disease-related signs and symptoms in pediatric patients with PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum disease who received treatment with the PI3K inhibitor under compassionate use.

Maintenance treatment with niraparib produced a sustained and durable progression-free survival benefit in patients with primary advanced ovarian cancer who responded to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy, spanning biomarker subgroups.

The decline of prostate-specific antigen following treatment with lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan plus standard of care was linked with prolonged radiographic progression-free survival and overall survival in patients with progressive prostate-specific membrane antigen–positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab was found to induce high response rates, including long-lasting remissions, and have acceptable safety in patients with metastasized anaplastic thyroid carcinoma and poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

GSK3326595, a PRMT5 inhibitor, displayed modest efficacy and safety signals that were consistent with those that were previously reported with the agent among patients with advanced solid tumors.

Adagrasib monotherapy and in combination with cetuximab generated encouraging responses in patients with advanced colorectal cancer harboring KRAS G12C mutations.

Ribociclib plus endocrine therapy elicited statistically significant progression-free survival and overall survival benefits vs placebo plus endocrine therapy in patients with hormone receptor–positive/HER2-negative advanced breast cancer with visceral metastases, including those with liver metastases and multiple metastatic sites.

An analysis of patient-reported outcomes from the phase 2 KEYNOTE-522 trial demonstrated that pembrolizumab was not associated with effects on health-related quality of life in patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

John H. Strickler, MD, discusses the results of tucatinib monotherapy in HER2-positive colorectal cancer.

Results from a retrospective analysis presented during the 2022 ESMO Congress indicated that circulating tumor DNA could potentially be leveraged as a prognostic factor and a tumor-specific biomarker for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in China.

The combination of orelabrutinib and R-CHOP elicited a favorable overall response rate and progression-free response rate in patients with previously untreated non–germinal center B-cell–like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) with extranodal disease.

The combination of pembrolizumab and olaparib did not significantly improve radiographic progression-free survival and overall survival compared with novel hormonal agents in patients with molecularly unselected, previously treated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The combination of enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab elicited a high overall response rate and a manageable safety profile in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

The addition of 24 months of androgen deprivation therapy to postoperative radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy provided a metastasis-free survival benefit and improved time to salvage therapy in patients with prostate cancer.

Tucatinib plus trastuzumab improved radiographic response rates in patients with metastatic HER2-positive colorectal cancer initially treated with tucatinib monotherapy who later crossed over to receive doublet therapy.

The clinical benefit and tolerable safety profile of trastuzumab deruxtecan was maintained at 5.4 kg/mg vs 6.4 kg/mg in patients with HER2-mutated non–small cell lung cancer, confirming the benefit-risk ratio of the FDA-approved dose.

Sotorasib doubled the rate of progression-free survival at 12 months and reduced the risk of progression or death by 34% compared with docetaxel for patients with previously treated non–small cell lung cancer with KRAS G12C mutations.

Atezolizumab led to an almost doubling in the rate of 2-year overall survival compared with vinorelbine or gemcitabine in patients with advanced platinum-ineligible non–small cell lung cancer.

Cemiplimab produced pathologic complete responses as a neoadjuvant treatment in more than half of patients with resectable, stage II to IV cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

Patients with completely resected non–small cell lung cancer did not derive a significant benefit with adjuvant canakinumab vs placebo.

Tislelizumab continued to demonstrate an improved clinical benefit compared with docetaxel in both Asian and non-Asian patients with previously treated advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Intensification of androgen-deprivation therapy plus apalutamide displayed promising efficacy in patients with high-risk, biochemically relapsed prostate cancer.

Four weeks of treatment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab elicited major pathologic responses in 95% of patients with mismatch repair–deficient colon cancer.

Compared with adjuvant pembrolizumab alone, the addition of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab significantly improved event-free survival outcomes for patients with stage III-IV melanoma with a hazard ratio of 0.58.

Sapna Patel, BA, MD, discusses the neoadjuvant administration of pembrolizumab in advanced melanoma.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, discusses enzalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Adjuvant osimertinib resulted in a 77% reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death in patients with EGFR-mutated, stage II to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer, with a disease-free survival improvement observed irrespective of prior adjuvant chemotherapy or disease stage.