All Oncology News

The combination of azacitidine and quizartinib produced preliminary responses in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome and myelodysplastic syndrome/myeloproliferative neoplasms whose tumors harbored FLT3 or CBL mutations, according to data from a phase 1/2 trial (NCT04493138).

Avelumab plus talazoparib showcased a favorable toxicity profile and overall modest activity in patients with mismatch repair–proficient endometrial cancer; however, immunogenomic profiling revealed a certain subset who might derive benefit from the doublet, warranting further investigation.

Giuseppe Lo Russo, MD, PhD, highlights the future role of liquid biopsy, the evolution of targeted therapies for KRAS G12C mutations, data to look forward to with EGFR-targeted agents, and the striking effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the mortality rates of patients with lung cancer.

Yasir Y. Elamin, MD, explained the rationale, design, and key findings of a phase 2 study evaluating poziotinib in patients with EGFR exon 20–mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a five-year Cancer Center Core Support Grant of $27,477,570 from the National Cancer Institute.

The European Commission has approved olaparib as a single agent or in combination with endocrine therapy for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with germline BRCA1/2-mutated, HER2-negative, high-risk early breast cancer.

Prevention and mitigation of cardiovascular events, such as thrombohemorrhagic complications, have been the main goal of treatment development for patients with essential thrombocythemia and polycythemia vera.

National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers routinely perform clinical trial site self-assessments. However, participation in these types of assessments is far less commonplace among community oncology sites.

Sintilimab in combination with a bevacizumab biosimilar plus pemetrexed and cisplatin induced a progression-free survival benefit of 2.6 months compared with chemotherapy alone for patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer, according to interim findings from the ongoing phase 3 ORIENT-31 trial.

The addition of pembrolizumab to lenvatinib did not significantly improve overall survival or progression-free survival over lenvatinib alone when used in the frontline treatment of patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma, missing the dual primary end points of the phase 3 LEAP-002 trial.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Zambia are partnering on a program to develop a cadre of researchers and educators to lead cancer epidemiology research and training in Zambia and to encourage U.S.-based researchers to engage in cancer research in low- and middle-income countries.

The novel PSMAxCD38 costimulatory bispecific antibody REGN5678 has shown encouraging efficacy in combination with cemiplimab in patients with advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to preliminary findings from an ongoing phase 1/2 trial (NCT03972657).

Pembrolizumab plus docetaxel failed to elicit a statistically significant improvement in overall survival and radiographic progression-free survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, missing the coprimary end points of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-921 trial.

Liposomal irinotecan did not provide an overall survival benefit compared with topotecan as a second-line treatment for patients with small cell lung cancer who progressed on or after first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.

HER3 has been shown to have a small amount of tyrosine kinase activity, making it an attractive target for the treatment of patients who have progressed after treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Preclinical data have shown that targeting HER3 and EGFR can overcome acquired resistance to EGFR inhibition.

The fully human BCMA-directed CAR T-cell therapy, CT103A, demonstrated deepening efficacy with an acceptable toxicity profile in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, according to updated data from the phase 1/2 FUMANBA-1 trial.

Eftilagimod alpha plus pembrolizumab demonstrated promising benefits in overall survival and progression-free survival as a second-line treatment in patients with non–small cell lung cancer who progressed on anti–PD-1/anti–PD-L1 therapy.

Poziotinib produced an encouraging overall response rate in patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 mutations, meeting the primary end point in cohort 1 of a phase 2 trial.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to OP-1250 for the treatment of patients with ER-positive, HER2- metastatic breast cancer who have progressed following at least 1 line of endocrine therapy with at least 1 line administered in combination with a CDK4/6 inhibitor.

Carrie Horton, MS, CGC, discusses how the findings from a retrospective analysis of germline testing rates among racially diverse groups of men with prostate cancer will guide future research and influence the steps community oncologists can take to increase testing rates.

The subcutaneous administration of atezolizumab produced non-inferior levels of the agent in the blood compared with intravenous atezolizumab in immunotherapy-naïve patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who failed platinum-based chemotherapy.

The menu of tissue-agnostic oncology drug approvals is growing, generating new treatment options for patients with rare cancers and strengthening the rationale for broad next-generation sequencing.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute welcomes medical oncologist Mariuxi Viteri Malone, MD, to the statewide practice.

Ropeginterferon alfa-2b produced durable complete hematologic responses without phlebotomy and showcased a consistent safety profile in Japanese patients with polycythemia vera, according to findings from a phase 2 study (NCT04182100) presented during the 2022 EHA Congress.

The FDA has accepted a priority review of a biologics license application for omidubicel as a treatment for patients with blood cancers in need of allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplant.

The phase 3 INTERLINK-1 trial was discontinued after monalizumab plus cetuximab failed to meet a predefined threshold for efficacy compared with cetuximab alone in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

The FDA has lifted a clinical hold on the phase 1b KEYNOTE-B79 trial, which is evaluating the safety and clinical activity of CYAD-101 given concurrently with FOLFOX and followed by pembrolizumab in patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer.

Results of the phase 2 CRESTONE study have demonstrated the tolerable safety profile and efficacy of seribantumab for the treatment adult patients with metastatic solid or locally advanced tumors harboring the rare NRG1 fusions.

The FDA has accepted for review a biologics license application for the IL-15 superagonist N-803 for the treatment of patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer carcinoma in situ.

The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab failed to elicit a statistically significant improvement in disease-free survival compared with placebo as adjuvant treatment in patients with localized renal cell carcinoma who had undergone a full or partial removal of the kidney and were at moderate or high risk of relapse, failing to meet the primary end point of part A of the phase 3 CheckMate-914 trial.