The triplet regimen of lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone plus autologous stem cell transplantation and lenalidomide maintenance therapy significantly improved progression-free survival compared with RVd alone in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, with notable benefit observed in those with high-risk cytogenetics.
Treatment with daratumumab plus lenalidomide and dexamethasone for at least 18 months led to deep clinical responses in patients with treatment-naïve multiple myeloma who were transplant ineligible.
Induction and consolidation therapy with a combination comprised of daratumumab, carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone allowed 70% of patients with high-risk, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma to complete a second autologous stem cell transplant.
Isatuximab plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone elicited favorable progression-free survival and proved tolerable in pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.
Isatuximab-containing regimens displayed favorable toxicity in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma in a real-world study.
Patient outcomes across the multiple myeloma landscape have vastly improved with the approval of multiple agents in the treatment armementarium, such as belantamab mafodotin-blmf, selinexor, and ciltacabtagene autoleucel.
The addition of ixazomib to daratumumab, pomalidomide, and dexamethasone has elicited deep and durable response rates with a manageable safety profile as salvage therapy in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.
The FDA has approved pemigatinib (Pemazyre) for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory myeloid/lymphoid neoplasms and FGFR1 rearrangement.
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Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has named Sophia George, PhD, the inaugural associate director of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare has approved osimertinib for use as an adjuvant treatment in patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.
Patients with multiple myeloma can mitigate the common oral and dermatologic toxicities associated with talquetamab with early intervention tactics.
Although the efficacy of targeted agents and outcomes for patients with genetic mutations can vary, the availability of these treatments adds to the need for genetic testing across all patients with non–small cell lung cancer.
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has approved olaparib as an adjuvant treatment for patients with BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative, high-risk early breast cancer.
A rolling biologics license application has been submitted to the FDA seeking the approval of lifileucel in patients with advanced melanoma who progressed on or after previous anti–PD-1/PD-L1 therapy, and if BRAF mutation positive, also previous BRAF or BRAF/MEK inhibitor therapy.
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Allina Health Cancer Institute is excited to offer its second annual Oncology Symposium on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. The symposium brings together clinicians devoted to solving the disease of cancer and the many challenges associated with it.
The European Commission has approved the fixed-duration, all-oral combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax for the frontline treatment of adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Larotrectinib produced durable responses in patients with NTRK fusion–positive locally advanced or metastatic gastrointestinal cancer, particularly in those with colorectal cancer.
The addition of talimogene laherparepvec to pembrolizumab did not significantly improve progression-free survival or overall survival over pembrolizumab alone in patients with advanced melanoma.
Jeff P. Sharman, MD, discusses the meaning of the long-term follow-up data from ELEVATE-TN, the efficacy of acalabrutinib regimens in patients with treatment-naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia with deletion 17p or TP53 mutations, and factors to consider when adding obinutuzumab to acalabrutinib.
The FDA has approved ibrutinib (Imbruvica) for pediatric patients aged 1 year or older with chronic graft versus host disease following failure of 1 or more lines of systemic therapy.
The European Commission has granted conditional marketing authorization to teclistamab for use as a single agent in adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least 3 prior therapies, including an immunomodulatory drug, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 antibody.
The addition of atezolizumab to vemurafenib and cobimetinib produced promising intracranial activity in patients with BRAF V600–mutated advanced melanoma and central nervous system metastases.
Liquid biopsy using targeted next-generation sequencing for early diagnosis and monitoring of patients with myeloid neoplasms is effective and detects chromosomal structural abnormalities.
Luspatercept, a first-in-class erythroidmaturation agent, induced high clinical activity in patients with transfusion-dependent, lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes and ring sideroblasts who were relapsed/refractory to erythropoietin, according to findings from the phase 2 PACE-MDS study.
CE label expansion was granted to the Ventana PD-L1 assay for use as a companion diagnostic to identify patients with non–small cell lung cancer who are eligible for treatment with adjuvant atezolizumab.
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New cancer treatment therapies, technologies and innovations continue to be discovered and approved for use at a rapid pace, creating an education challenge for physicians and other healthcare professionals within the complex oncology landscape.
The FDA has placed a full clinical hold on a phase 1 dose escalation trial investigating the BRG1/BRM inhibitor FHD-286 in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome.
The novel third-generation EGFR inhibitor abivertinib generated a positive overall response rate and overall survival in heavily pretreated Chinese patients with EGFR T790M–mutated non–small cell lung cancer who failed treatment on a first-line EGFR TKI, according to long-term follow-up data from a phase 1/2 trial (NCT02330367).
Niraparib plus ipilimumab maintenance therapy elicited encouraging progression-free survival results in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer who achieved a stable response to platinum-based chemotherapy.
The China National Medical Products Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation has accepted for review a supplemental biologics application seeking the approval of tislelizumab plus chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable, locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
