The European Commission has granted marketing authorization to the dual action tablet comprised of niraparib and abiraterone acetate to be administered with prednisone or prednisolone in adult patients with BRCA1/2-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in whom chemotherapy is not clinically indicated.
Overall response rates were similar across subgroups of patients with nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer for the combinations of dostarlimab-gxly plus chemotherapy and pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, and responses numerically favored the dostarlimab-based combination in most subgroups, according to a subgroup analysis of the phase 2 PERLA trial.
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Vitamin D deficiency could be the reason African American men experience more aggressive prostate cancer at a younger age compared with European American men.
The PD-L1 inhibitor sugemalimab produced durable responses with a tolerable safety profile in patients with relapsed/refractory natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, according to findings from a preplanned primary analysis of the multicenter, single-arm, phase 2 GEMSTONE-201 trial.
Brian M. Slomovitz, MD, discusses key efficacy and safety data seen with ribociclib and letrozole in the GOG 3026 trial and planned efforts to identify associated biomarkers and pursue FDA approval for the combination in advanced, recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer.
Joshua G. Cohen, MD, FACOG, FACS, expands on the role of PARP inhibitors in the recurrent and up-front settings in ovarian cancer, and the clinical significance of the RUBY and NY-GY018 trials in endometrial cancer.
Joshua K. Sabari, MD, shares how the unique pharmacokinetics and mechanism of action for LY3537982 supported its investigation in the LOXO-RAS- 20001 study, findings presented at AACR, and how this research could address unmet needs in patients with KRAS G12C–mutant solid tumors.
A long-term post-hoc analysis from the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial demonstrated that first-line maintenance avelumab elicited similar overall survival and progression-free survival benefits vs best supportive care alone in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma.
John L. Hays, MD, PhD, discusses the importance of tailoring therapies for patients with CRC who express HER2 or have other actionable targets, the need to develop optimal sequences for local and systemic therapy in CRC, and key updates in hepatocellular carcinoma and pancreatic cancer.
The combination of selinexor at 60 mg and ruxolitinib induced rapid and durable spleen responses and improved symptoms at weeks 12 and 24 in patients with treatment-naïve myelofibrosis, according to updated data from the phase 1 XPORT-MF-034 trial.
The combination of batiraxcept and cabozantinib is safe and generated early evidence of efficacy in pretreated patients with advanced or metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
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Erin Longstreth-Papsun, RN, MSN, OCN, NEA-BC, clinical director of Ambulatory Satellite Clinics and Radiation Oncology Nursing at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently awarded the Excellence in Cancer Nursing Management Award by the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS).
The combination of tislelizumab plus chemotherapy elicited a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival compared with chemotherapy plus placebo in patients with advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy, MD, highlights multidisciplinary approaches including discussions on tumor boards, and discusses how to better assist patients with accessing care, and notable advances in the field particularly with the HER2 classification.
The FDA has extended the review period for a new drug application for quizartinib in combination with standard cytarabine and anthracycline induction and standard cytarabine consolidation chemotherapy, and as continuation monotherapy following consolidation, for the treatment of newly diagnosed adult patients with FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.
A genome-wide methylome enrichment platform demonstrated efficacy in detecting early-stage, low-shedding cancers with limited circulating tumor DNA.
In pancreatic cancer, the role of the endoscopist continues to evolve as technologies like endoscopic ultrasound–guided biopsies present clinicians with increasingly accurate information to characterize the tumor microenvironments of individual patients and determine effective targeted therapies.
Looking to replicate the impressive findings with CAR T-cell therapies observed in patients with hematologic malignancies, investigators have initiated the BASECAMP-1 trial, with the hope of identifying patients with advanced solid tumors who will be suitable candidates for treatment in a subsequent trial evaluating the investigational agent A2B530.
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University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers presented more than a dozen abstracts at the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, including findings that could advance treatments for head and neck and breast cancers.
The combination of the potentially first-in-class off-the-shelf therapeutic cancer vaccine candidate VB10.16 and atezolizumab elicited a median overall survival greater than 25 months in patients with PD-L1–positive, human papillomavirus 16–positive advanced cervical cancer.
Leaked data from an abstract scheduled to be presented at the 2023 EHA Hybrid Congress showed that ciltacabtagene autoleucel demonstrated a 74% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with standard therapy in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who received 1 to 3 prior lines of therapy.
To evaluate the prevalence of financial toxicity and observe the effect of Coverage and Cost-of-Care Links, a program providing financial navigation, investigators initiated a nonrandomized study.
The FDA has granted a fast track designation to the combination of botensilimab plus balstilimab for the treatment of patients with non–microsatellite instability–high/mismatch repair–deficient metastatic colorectal cancer with no active liver involvement.
Findings from a phase 1 study showed that the fully humanized IgG4 antibody IO-108 was well tolerated and displayed durable responses when given as a monotherapy as well as in combination with pembrolizumab, supporting further development of the agent alone or with PD-1/PD-L1 targeted therapy for patients with advanced solid tumors.
The FDA has approved polatuzumab vedotin-piiq (Polivy) plus rituximab (Rituxan), cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone for use in adult patients who have previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified or high-grade B-cell lymphoma and who have an International Prognostic Index score of two or greater.
Adjuvant pembrolizumab prolonged disease-free survival and distant metastasis–free survival vs placebo in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma at increased risk of recurrence after nephrectomy, irrespective of UCLA Integrated Staging System risk category and disease stage.
RLY-2608 led to sustained target inhibition with minimal effect on glucose homeostasis, acceptable safety, and antitumor activity in patients with PIK3CA-mutant solid tumors, according to interim data from the dose-escalation portion of the first-in-human phase 1 ReDiscover trial.
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April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, and a promising new research initiative at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center could lead to a new and far more effective standard of care for this group of cancers.
An independent data monitoring committee has recommended that the phase 3 REGAL trial examining galinpepimut-S in patients with acute myeloid leukemia continue as planned without modifications.
