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Newer frontline therapies demonstrated a real-world improvement in survival and responses compared with sorafenib in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Josep Tabernero, MD, PhD, discusses findings from the phase 3 SUNLIGHT trial investigating the combination of bevacizumab plus trifluridine/tipiracil vs TAS-102 alone in patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

Laura Dawson, MD, FRCPC, discusses results from the phase 3 NRG/RTOG 1112 trial of stereotactic body radiation therapy plus sorafenib compared with sorafenib alone in patients with locally advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

The combination of SEA-CD40, gemcitabine, nab-paclitaxel, and pembrolizumab demonstrated early evidence of efficacy in patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, according to updated results from the phase 1 SGNS40-001 study.

Treatment with or without bevacizumab added to atezolizumab plus cisplatin/gemcitabine demonstrated a modest clinical benefit for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer.

Tislelizumab monotherapy resulted in favorable health-related quality of life outcomes compared with sorafenib as frontline treatment for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

The addition of stereotactic body radiation therapy to sorafenib led to an improvement in overall survival, progression-free survival, and time to disease progression compared with sorafenib alone in patients with locally advanced, hepatocellular carcinoma.

The addition of nab-paclitaxel to gemcitabine and cisplatin did not result in a statistically significant improvement in overall survival over gemcitabine/cisplatin alone in patients with newly diagnosed, advanced biliary tract cancers.

First-line treatment with the combination of liposomal irinotecan plus 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin produced a clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in overall survival and progression-free survival vs nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine in patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, according to results from the phase 3 NAPOLI 3 trial.

Blank-microsphere transarterial chemoembolization plus low-dose lenvatinib and sequential microwave ablation elicited responses and a tolerable safety profile in patients with large hepatocellular carcinoma.

Findings from the phase 2 CISLC-12 study show favorable safety and efficacy signals for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma treated with the combination of envafolimab, lenvatinib, and transarterial chemoembolization.

The presence of anti-drug antibodies appeared to have no effect on efficacy or safety of durvalumab monotherapy or the STRIDE combination of durvalumab plus tremelimumab in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

In the first-line treatment of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, a combination of pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib yielded similar health-related quality of life scores as lenvatinib plus placebo, according to a HRQOL analysis of the phase 3 LEAP-002 study.

Second-line lenvatinib may produce a survival benefit in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who have progressed on immunotherapy.

Patients with HER2-overexpressing metastatic or advanced gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma treated with HER-Vaxx plus standard-of-care chemotherapy had a statistically significant survival benefit compared with those who received chemotherapy alone.

Frontline zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 significantly improved progression-free and overall survival vs placebo/mFOLFOX6 in patients with CLDN18.2-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, according to primary phase 3 data from the SPOTLIGHT trial.

Nivolumab in combination with chemotherapy or ipilimumab maintained a clinically meaningful overall survival benefit vs chemotherapy alone in patients with treatment-naïve advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

The combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) and chemotherapy continued to provide a clinically meaningful long-term survival benefit and deeper responses than chemotherapy alone in previously untreated patients with advanced gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, and esophageal adenocarcinoma, according to 3-year follow-up data from the phase 3 CheckMate-649 trial.

Neoadjuvant treatment with the combination of tremelimumab and durvalumab produced responses and was well tolerated in patients with mismatch repair–deficient and microsatellite instability–high, Epstein-Barr virus–negative gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Clinicopathological features of HER2-low advanced gastric cancer were distinct and distinguishable from those of HER2-positive or -negative disease, according to retrospective findings from a single-institution study that were presented at the 2022 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Neoadjuvant treatment with SHR-1701 with or without chemotherapy followed by surgery or radiotherapy induced responses in more than half of patients with stage III unresectable non–small cell lung cancer and increased resectability in those assigned to definitive surgery.

Chan Cheah, MBBS, discusses the investigation of BGB-11417 with or without zanubrutinib in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Tisagenlecleucel elicited durable efficacy and a favorable long-term safety profile in the real-world setting of patients with relapsed/refractory aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Olutasidenib monotherapy induced high complete response rates with a manageable toxicity profile in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia harboring IDH1 mutations.

Heather Jim, PhD, discusses a real-world analysis, examining the quality of life outcomes seen with axicabtagene ciloleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

BGB-11417, when given alone or in combination with zanubrutinib, elicited encouraging responses and minimal residual disease negativity rates in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma, according to preliminary data from a phase 1 trial.

Ran Reshef, MD, discusses findings from the phase 3 BMT CTN 1703 trial examining graft-vs-host disease prophylaxis in reduced intensity conditioning.

Consolidation therapy with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation improved progression-free survival vs non-myeloablative chemoimmunotherapy in patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma.

Among patients with newly diagnosed high-risk multiple myeloma, treatment with BCMA/CD19 dual-targeting FasTCAR-T Cells resulted in an overall response rate of 100%, with all treated patients evaluable for minimal residual disease showing minimal residual disease negativity to 12 months.

Regis Peffault de Latour, MD, PhD, discusses the benefit observed with iptacopan vs standard-of-care eculizumab or ravulizumab in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and residual anemia during the phase 3 APPLY-PNH trial.