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Avelumab failed to demonstrate an improvement in overall survival at 1 year as frontline treatment in patients with cisplatin-ineligible, PD-L1–positive advanced urothelial cancer, though it did elicit a notable objective response rate.

The frontline maintenance combination of avelumab plus best supportive care continued to show an improvement in overall survival compared with BSC alone in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer who receive first-line chemotherapy.

The combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab elicited comparable antitumor activity compared with placebo plus pembrolizumab as frontline therapy in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma who were ineligible for platinum-based chemotherapy, according to data from LEAP-011.

Darolutamide produced a well-tolerated safety profile in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to pooled data from long-term analyses of 3 trials.

The utilization of 18F-rhPSMA-7.3 imaging displayed a clinically meaningful correct detection rate.

The androgen receptor inhibitor darolutamide demonstrated continued efficacy and safety in patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC) who have comorbidities or concomitant medications

Continuous enzalutamide plus docetaxel and prednisone elicited progression-free survival improvement vs placebo with docetaxel and prednisone in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had previously progressed on enzalutamide alone

The addition of darolutamide to androgen deprivation therapy and docetaxel generated better overall survival vs placebo with ADT and docetaxel in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

The combination of niraparib and abiraterone acetate and prednisone led to a significant improvement in radiographic progression-free survival vs placebo plus abiraterone in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and homologous recombination repair gene alterations.

Olaparib in combination with abiraterone acetate led to a 34% reduction in the risk of radiographic disease progression or death compared with placebo and abiraterone as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to results of the phase 3 PROpel trial.

A greater portion of patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer achieved an early and deep prostate-specific antigen reduction from baseline of 90% or more when treated with apalutamide compared with enzalutamide.

With 9 approved markers in non–small cell lung cancer and a plethora of established and emerging therapies that have been designed to target them, the need for molecular testing is more important than ever.

Lyudmila A. Bazhenova, MD, discusses future research questions with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki in HER2-mutated lung cancer.

Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH, discusses the challenges of interpreting molecular testing results in lung cancer.

Lyudmila Bazhenova, MD, explores key challenges faced with diagnosing and appropriately treating patients with non–small cell lung cancer that harbors EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations and provides insight into the second-line options that have recently garnered regulatory approval.

Checkpoint inhibitors are often used in the advanced stage, but Erin A. Gillaspie, MD, MPH, argues that the data show physicians should consider utilizing this class of agents earlier in treatment.

Russell Kenneth Hales, MD, discusses the role of multidisciplinary care in locally advanced lung cancer.

Benjamin Philip Levy, MD, discusses potential methods to optimize molecular testing in lung cancer.

Antibody-drug conjugates appear to have the most activity in those with non–small cell lung cancer and HER2 expression.

Repeat histologic evaluation and molecular testing in patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer who develop acquired resistance to osimertinib can deliver pertinent information that can help guide subsequent treatment decisions.

Although PD-L1 expression and histology served as helpful stratification factors in pivotal trials, the paradigm will need to build out more tailored selection strategies as additional checkpoint inhibitors move through development.

Concurrent chemoradiation followed by durvalumab has become the standard of care for patients with unresectable stage III non–small cell lung cancer based on the results of the phase 3 PACIFIC trial. However, several strategies are under clinical evaluation to push the paradigm beyond the PACIFIC regimen.

In the past 2 years, key data from clinical trials in advanced lung cancer have demonstrated that immunotherapy has expanded the bounds of the armamentarium for the treatment of several lung cancers.

Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH, discusses addressing barriers to biomarker testing in lung cancer.

Russell Kenneth Hales, MD, discusses investigational treatment strategies that have the potential to build upon the positive results of the phase 3 PACIFIC trial in stage III non–small cell lung cancer.

Surgical resection remains the key treatment modality for early-stage non–small cell lung cancer; however, both systemic adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapeutics are options that have value for patients.

Alexander Babatunde Olawaiye, MD, discusses factors that influence optimized frontline maintenance therapy in advanced ovarian cancer.

Reviewing some of the most talked about abstracts that were presented at the 2022 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Amer Karam, MD, discusses the role of secondary cytoreductive surgery in ovarian cancer and the need for careful patient selection, plus the results from 3 clinical trials and the key differences between these efforts.

Cortney Eakin, MD, discusses alarming trends in uterine cancer histologies in Black women and some of the potential underlying risk factors at play.