All Oncology News

Pancreatic cancer diagnoses are increasing more rapidly than any other cancer type while remaining one of the most deadly cancers.

The FDA’s Office of Therapeutic Products has accepted a resubmission of the biologics license application (BLA) for remestemcel-L for the treatment of pediatric patients with steroid-refractory, acute graft-vs-host-disease.

An understanding of BET protein dysregulation, which leads to abnormal expression of oncogenes, has prompted investigators to explore the idea of these proteins as a therapeutic target for cancer.

Eleni Efstathiou, MD, PhD, expands on the updated interim data from the MAGNITUDE trial and sheds light on the utility of PARP inhibitor combinatorial strategies in patients with mCRPC and HRR gene alterations.

Palbociclib plus an aromatase inhibitor improved real-world data for progression-free survival, overall survival, and time to chemotherapy compared with an aromatase inhibitor alone in patients 75 years and older with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced/metastatic breast cancer.

As more antibody-drug conjugates emerge and investigators foresee fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki moving forward in lines of treatment for metastatic disease, the treatment landscape of hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer continues to expand and shift.

Matthew Galsky, MD, discusses the key long-term findings and the clinical implications of the updated data from the phase 3 CheckMate 274 trial of nivolumab for the adjuvant treatment of patients with urothelial carcinoma.

The advent of effective first-generation TKIs has allowed for improvements among patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positive disease, which is traditionally associated with a poor prognosis, as it generally does not respond to conventional chemotherapy options.

The FDA has approved the VENTANA PD-L1 assay for expanded use in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer to help identify patients who may be candidates for treatment with cemiplimab.

The European Commission has granted a full marketing authorization to luspatercept-aamt for use in adult patients with anemia associated with non–transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia.

The combination of cabozantinib and atezolizumab did not significantly improve progression-free survival over cabozantinib alone in patients with locally advanced or metastatic clear cell or non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma who progressed during or following checkpoint inhibition, missing the primary end point of the phase 3 CONTACT-03 trial.

Lasofoxifene improved vaginal/vulvar symptoms compared with fulvestrant in premenopausal patients with locally advanced or metastatic estrogen receptor–positive/HER2-negative breast cancer harboring an ESR1 mutation.

Clinicians tasked with treating patients with non–small cell lung cancer may soon be gaining an additional therapeutic target, this one directed at CEACAM5.

The phase 3 LIMBER-304 trial evaluating parsaclisib plus ruxolitinib in patients with myelofibrosis will be discontinued after results of a preplanned interim analysis indicated that the study is unlikely to meet its primary end point of targeted reduction in spleen volume in the intent-to-treat population.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute has appointed Sachin Kamath, MD as Chairman of the FCS Executive Board Compliance Committee.

The FDA has approved a single-dose, prefilled autoinjector presentation of pegfilgrastim-cbqv (Udenyca), which is a biosimilar of pegfilgrastim that is given the day after chemotherapy to decrease the incidence of infection as manifested by febrile neutropenia.

The antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan met the prespecified target for objective response rate and demonstrated durable responses in heavily pretreated patients with HER2-expressing advanced solid tumors in the phase 2 DESTINY-PanTumor02 trial.

Findings from several large phase 3 studies along with continued development of emerging therapies promise to alter the treatment landscape for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.

Hyman B. Muss, MD, discusses the potential benefits of metronomic chemotherapy and which patients with metastatic breast cancer could be candidates, as well as how to approach end-of-life conversations and decisions for patients.

In a single-center study, investigators assessed real-world outcomes in patients with metastatic metastatic triple-negative breast cancer treated with the antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan-hziy.

Lindsay Avner Kaplan and Nancy G. Brinker, the keynote speakers of the 40th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference, discuss the need to confront social determinants of health for patients and drive the public conversation and interpretation of personal and clinical stories in health care.

After settling the debate of which patients with early-stage, hormone receptor–positive breast cancer require chemotherapy in addition to endocrine therapy, investigators have set their sights on determining whether ovarian function suppression can deliver the same effects of chemotherapy and when to recommend abemaciclib and olaparib.

Novel selective estrogen receptor modulators, selective estrogen receptor degraders, and proteolysis-targeting chimera inhibitors have demonstrated early efficacy for patients with breast cancer who experience disease progression following CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment.

Brain metastases are a common complication in patients with breast cancer, and although systemic therapies for patients with HER2-positive disease have displayed promise in penetration of the blood-brain barrier, work remains for subsets of patients with central nervous system metastases.

The growth of artificial intelligence allows physicians to see tumors in unprecedented ways.

By moving away from adjuvant- to neoadjuvant-based protocols, such as I-SPY, investigators may be better able to develop effective treatments for patients in less time by refining the understanding of who will benefit from therapy, enabling strategies with multiple pathway targets, and testing approaches earlier in the disease course.

As additional antibody-drug conjugates continue to emerge for the treatment of patients with HER2-negative breast cancer, identifying optimal sequencing strategies and managing toxicities associated with these agents remain top priorities for their use, according to Hope S. Rugo, MD.

The FDA approved an expanded indication for abemaciclib (Verzenio) in combination with endocrine therapy for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer that is at a high risk of recurrence.

Melissa L. Pilewskie, MD, highlightes some of the primary components of her presentation concerning high-risk breast lesions, which will be delivered during the 40th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference®

John Karanicolas, PhD, co-leader of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop a platform that could assist in the development of new drugs.