All Oncology News

The FDA has approved repotrectinib (Augtyro) for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

With a plethora of data coming out of the 2023 European Society for Medical Oncology Congress, findings from multiple clinical trials examining antibody-drug conjugates in non–small cell lung cancer demonstrated encouraging antitumor activity and manageable safety profiles, including results from the phase 3 TROPION-Lung01 study, which evaluated datopotamab deruxtecan vs docetaxel in pretreated patients with advanced or metastatic disease.

Andrew Kuykendall, MD, discusses the current role of JAK inhibitors in myelofibrosis, the importance of chronic graft-vs-host disease awareness in patients with myeloid malignancies receiving transplant, and unmet needs for patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

The addition of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to enzalutamide (Xtandi) and androgen deprivation therapy did not improve radiographic progression-free survival vs placebo plus enzalutamide and ADT in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, according to data from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-991 trial presented at the 2023 ESMO Congress.

A first-of-its-kind study unveils how diabetes drives multiple myeloma growth and differences in survival outcomes for Black versus white patients with both conditions

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to SIRPant-M™ as a potential therapeutic option for patients with T-cell lymphoma.

A possible cause of some of the cost-related delays and nonadherence to treatment that patients with cancer and cancer survivors experience could be the time and effort they are forced to spend on administrative payment tasks related to their care.

The FDA has granted fast track designation to the RNA replacement enzyme–based cancer gene therapy RZ-001 for the treatment of patients with glioblastoma, according to an announcement from Rznomics Inc.

Data from a real-world study in Japan showed that fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki displayed intracranial efficacy in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer harboring brain metastases and/or leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.

China’s National Medical Products Administration has approved durvalumab plus gemcitabine and cisplatin for frontline use in adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer.

The FDA has approved the PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx diagnostic tool to aid clinicians in identifying patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma who may be eligible for treatment with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab.

A clinical trial co-led by Mount Sinai researchers is the first to show that using chemotherapy with immunotherapy resulted in improved survival in patients with an advanced type of bladder cancer.

The use of the optical imaging agent FG001 led to the detection of additional cancer by optical guidance in patients with high-grade glioma, meeting the primary end point of the phase 2b FG001-CT-001 trial.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of subcutaneous atezolizumab for all indications in which the intravenous formulation is approved, including certain types of lung, liver, bladder, and breast cancer

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion supporting the approval of momelotinib for the treatment of disease-related splenomegaly or symptoms in adult patients with moderate to severe anemia with primary myelofibrosis, post–polycythemia vera myelofibrosis, or post–essential thrombocytopenia myelofibrosis who have not been exposed to a JAK inhibitor or who had received prior ruxolitinib.

After a re-examination procedure, the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has issued a positive opinion on the conditional marketing authorization application for adagrasib in the treatment of adult patients with KRAS G12C–mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer whose disease progressed following at least 1 prior systemic treatment.

Bayer has announced the intention to voluntarily withdraw the new drug application for copanlisib in adult patients with relapsed follicular lymphoma who have previously received at least 2 prior systemic treatments.

Stephen V. Liu, MD, discusses strategies for treatment and disease management for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer who are awaiting biomarker test results.

Treatment with the novel immunotherapy PV-10 led to hepatic responses in patients with metastatic uveal melanoma with liver metastases, according to updated data from a phase 1 trial.

Ongoing research evaluating combination therapies for the frontline treatment of patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer could help improve survival outcomes for this patient population.

Nicholas C. Rohs, MD, delves into the details of the case study a patient who had a lung cancer relapse detected following a referral to a dermatologist due to pityriasis rubra pilaris.

In a new paper in JCO Oncology Practice, bioethics researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute call on medical societies, government leaders, clinicians, and researchers to work together to ensure AI-driven healthcare preserves patient autonomy and respects human dignity.

TerSera Therapeutics LLC announced that The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Head and Neck Cancers Panel recommended the GnRH agonist goserelin for patients with recurrent, unresectable, or metastatic salivary gland tumors who were not eligible for surgery or radiation therapy.

Benjamin Besse, MD, PhD, discusses the results from the ATALANTE-1 trial and details the mechanism of action of the OSE2101 vaccine.

Andrew L. Ji, MD, is working to better understand cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma —a skin cancer that is the second most common cancer in the United States and one that causes substantial morbidity, with a considerable risk for metastatic spread and death.

While there are considerable barriers to incorporating comprehensive genotyping, the use of circulating tumor DNA offers an improvement in molecular testing—and doing so earlier can accelerate the time to treatment and improve survival for patients with lung cancer.

As treatments for patients with stage IV non–small cell lung cancer continue to evolve, patients with PD-L1–negative disease represent a unique cohort and chemotherapy/immunotherapy or immunotherapy doublet regimens appear to be effective.

Although not immediately practice changing, CAR T-cell therapy has the potential to become a standard of care for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma following progression on checkpoint inhibitors and VEGF inhibitors.

Additional research exploring the association between clonal hematopoiesis and cardiovascular health could help improve outcomes for patients with kidney cancer and identify those at higher risk for experiencing cardiac events.

Further understanding of the cancer immunity cycle could drive the development of novel immune therapies for patients with renal cell carcinoma.