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Ciltacabtagene autoleucel demonstrated efficacious responses and significant improvements in survival over standard of care in triple class–relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Zanubrutinib induced superior response and progression-free survival rates, as well as lower rates of atrial fibrillation/flutter than ibrutinib in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma.

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.

Ruben A. Mesa, MD, discusses the importance of achieving transfusion independence with momelotinib in myelofibrosis.

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.

Cabozantinib exposure was not significantly associated with progression-free survival but appeared to predict high rates of palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia and diarrhea in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma treated with the frontline combination of cabozantinib and nivolumab.

The addition of lenvatinib to pembrolizumab elicited a notable survival benefit and improved responses over single-agent sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma across evaluable International Metastatic RCC Database Consortium risk subgroups.

The combination of pembrolizumab and cabozantinib induced a response in more than half of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma at the recommended phase 2 dose with a manageable safety profile, meeting the primary end point of a phase 1/2 trial.

The addition of toripalimab and hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy to lenvatinib yielded robust, durable responses in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, and represents a potential new treatment option for patients in the first line setting.

In patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who received cetuximab as a second-line therapy after irinotecan or oxaliplatin-based regimens have failed, KRAS mutational status and geographical region were associated with time on treatment, while body mass index and age were linked with overall survival.

Adding abiraterone acetate and prednisone to androgen-deprivation therapy plus docetaxel improved radiographic progression-free survival in patients with de novo metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

OncLive sits down with Sandy Wong, MD; Neal Shore, MD; and Loretta Nastoupil, MD, to share the the insight on data in multiple myeloma, prostate cancer, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting.

The BCMA-targeting humanized bispecific monoclonal antibody elranatamab elicited high response rates when subcutaneously delivered at higher doses in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Subsequent systemic therapies were found to impact overall survival outcomes with lenvatinib plus everolimus versus sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who received treatment in the phase 3 CLEAR trial.

Mark Christopher Markowski, MD, PhD, discusses the safety and efficacy of VERU-111 in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Talquetamab, when delivered at the recommended phase 2 dose of 405 µg/kg weekly, induced a high clinical response rate with favorable tolerabilty in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The addition of TAK-700 to androgen-deprivation therapy improved median progression-free survival and prostate-specific antigen responses, but did not significantly improve overall survival vs ADT and bicalutamide in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

The heat shock protein 90 inhibitor pimitespib led to a significant improvement in progression-free survival and prolongation in overall survival compared with placebo in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor that is refractory to imatinib, sunitinib, and regorafenib.

Suresh S. Ramalingam, MD, FASCO, discusses updated data with mobocertinib in EGFR exon 20 insertion–positive advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Treatment with teclistamab, administered subcutaneously at a dose of 1500 µg/kg once weekly, led to a high response rate and an encouraging safety profile in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

C-CAR066 exhibited a favorable safety profile and promising efficacy in adult patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma who failed with prior CD19 CAR T-cell therapy.

Findings of a study examining comprehensive genomic profiling shed more light on disparities in prostate cancer care.

The addition of alrizomadlin to pembrolizumab yielded promising preliminary efficacy and was tolerable in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma or advanced solid tumors that have been resistant to immunotherapy agents.

Combining transurethral resection of the bladder tumor with nivolumab and chemotherapy showed promise as a bladder-sparing treatment strategy in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

The 2-year progression free survival achieved with carfilzomib, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone consolidation did not prove to be noninferior to up-front autologous stem cell transplantation in newly diagnosed, transplant-eligible patients with multiple myeloma, although the margin is small.

Bone-protecting agents utilized during treatment with radium-223 plus enzalutamide reduced the risk for fractures in men with asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.