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The FDA has issued a complete response letter to the biologics license application for vic-trastuzumab duocarmazine for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

The American Association for Cancer Research has selected Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center as one of the newest members of a worldwide consortium contributing genomic data to AACR’s Project GENIE.

The first patients have been dosed in the phase 3b ECLIPSE PV trial, which is evaluating an accelerated dosing schedule of ropeginterferon alfa-2b-njft for the treatment of patients with polycythemia vera.

By retrospectively analyzing health care financial data and using the intelligence generated to guide future claims to a more successful outcome, machine learning platforms may reduce the need for repeated insurance submissions and appeals and can improve the practice’s clean claim rate.

Capivasertib plus fulvestrant provided a clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival over fulvestrant alone in patients with hormone receptor–positive advanced breast cancer, including those who previously received a CDK4/6 inhibitor, chemotherapy in the advanced setting, or had baseline liver metastases.

The combination of OP-1250 and palbociclib produced a tolerable safety profile and elicited tumor responses and disease stabilization in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

The frontline combination of ribociclib and letrozole significantly prolonged overall survival over letrozole alone in a subset of patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer who had de novo metastatic disease or late recurrence from neoadjuvant therapy, according to data from an exploratory analysis of the phase 3 MONALEESA-2 trial.

Preoperative treatment with atezolizumab, epirubicin, trastuzumab, and pertuzumab led to improved rates of pathologic complete response and decreased residual cancer burden compared with trastuzumab, pertuzumab, and chemotherapy alone in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer, according to findings from the randomized phase 2 ATHENE trial.

Adjuvant treatment with the individualized RNA neoantigen vaccine autogene cevumeran in combination with atezolizumab and chemotherapy induced notable T-cell activity that could be correlated with delayed recurrence in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

The addition of atezolizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy generated numerical improvements in event-free survival, disease-free survival, and overall survival compared with chemotherapy plus placebo in patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.

Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy produced comparable efficacy outcomes for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who had a higher incidence of grade 2 or 3 diarrhea and neutropenia vs patients in the overall population, according to a post hoc analysis of the phase 3 ASCENT trial presented at the 2023 ESMO Breast Cancer Annual Congress.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki was associated with better efficacy outcomes compared with treatment of physician’s choice in patients with HER2-low, estrogen receptor-low metastatic breast cancer, according to findings from a subgroup analysis of the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast04 study.

Administration of trilaciclib followed by sacituzumab govitecan showed early signals of efficacy and may reduce the incidence of adverse effects in heavily pretreated patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, according to preliminary results from a phase 2 study.

Matthew Lee, MD, MBA, discusses his use of a new robotic laparoscopic procedure to treat a complication caused by cancer radiation therapy at the 2023 American Urological Association Annual Meeting.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to PYX-201 for the treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer.

Patients with low-grade serous ovarian carcinoma historically have demonstrated a benefit with hormonal maintenance therapy following cytoreductive surgery and platinum-based chemotherapy.

Michael Basin, MD, discusses the rationale for the preclinical investigation of belzutifan resistance in ccRCC cell lines, the next steps for this research, and the potential implications for combining Hsp70 inhibition with a HIF2α inhibitor.

Olaparib provided consistent clinical benefit in patients with germline BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, irrespective of estrogen receptor expression level.

Adjuvant abemaciclib with endocrine therapy led to a tolerable safety profile in patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, high-risk, early breast cancer,

Patient-reported outcomes with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer reflected the regimen’s favorable risk-benefit profile in the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast02 trial, according to findings presented during the 2023 ESMO Breast Cancer Annual Congress.

Treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan resulted in lower exposure-adjusted incidence rates per patient-year of treatment-emergent adverse effects compared with treatment of physician’s choice in patients with HER2-low unresectable and/or metastatic breast cancer, according to safety analysis from the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast04 trial.

Elacestrant maintained the quality of life for patients with metastatic breast cancer for at least 6 treatment cycles, according to patient reported outcomes.

The FDA has issued a complete response letter regarding the biologics license application for N-803 in combination with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) for the treatment of patients with BCG-unresponsive non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer with carcinoma in situ with or without Ta or T1 disease.

Saum Ghodoussipour, MD, shares how some facilities in the tri-state region including Rutgers Cancer Institute and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, use enhanced blue light technology with an imaging solution that better highlights cancerous tumors in the bladder.

An increased focus on long-term and genomic analyses on established treatments in prostate cancer have revealed new opportunities for patients across disease states.

John Michael "JM" Bryant, MD, expands on the results of the interim analysis of the single-center, single-arm phase 2 trial for patients with grade group 5 prostate cancer treated with the combination of nivolumab and standard of care.

Ahmed O. Kaseb, MD, discusses how the previous approval of atezolizumab and bevacizumab in hepatocellular carcinoma provided the impetus for the IMBrave050 study, how data from this study could support the regimen’s approval in the adjuvant setting, and how this approval could substantially improve the treatment landscape for early-stage disease.

The European Commission has approved ivosidenib tablets in combination with azacitidine for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia with an IDH1 R132 mutation who are not eligible to receive standard induction chemotherapy, and as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with an IDH1 R132 mutation who received at least 1 prior line of systemic therapy.

Treatment with adjuvant anastrozole over a 10-year period remained tolerable and increased disease-free survival rates in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, according to data from the phase 3 AERAS trial.

Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Abigail T. Berman, MD, MSCE, as an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology.