All Oncology News

Nivolumab in combination with paclitaxel showed clinical activity and a manageable safety profile when used as second-line therapy for patients with Epstein-Barr virus–related, microsatellite instability–high/mismatch repair deficient or PD-L1–positive advanced gastric cancer.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan has not only demonstrated efficacy as a potential anti-HER2 therapeutic option for patients with HER2-amplified gastric cancers, but has also shown promise in those with HER2 moderate-, low-, and non-expressing disease.

The combination of copanlisib and rituximab was associated with a 48% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with rituximab plus placebo in patients with relapsed indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle was found to reduce the likelihood of developing metastatic disease or dying of prostate cancer among men who had a high genetic risk.

The presence of pathogenic or likely pathogenic germline variants in cancer predisposition genes, which were identified in approximately 1 in 5 patients with neuroblastoma and were mostly inherited, was shown to correlate with worse event-free survival and overall survival vs the absence of germline variants.

The CDK9 inhibitor voruciclib demonstrated early activity as a single agent in KRAS-mutant cancer cell lines, and synergistically inhibited growth of KRAS-mutant cancers when used in combination with sotorasib and adagrasib in preclinical models.

Tebentafusp (IMCgp100) resulted in a highly significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival when given as a frontline treatment in patients with metastatic uveal melanoma.

Neoadjuvant treatment with nivolumab combined with chemotherapy led to a significant improvement in pathologic complete response compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer.

The FDA has granted a priority review to the biologics license application for tisotumab vedotin as a potential treatment for patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer with progressive disease on, or following, chemotherapy.

Sequential chemotherapy and immunotherapy became the preferred standard of care in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma, based on findings from the phase 3 JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial.

Wasif Saif, MD, discusses factors to consider when choosing a frontline treatment strategy in pancreatic cancer, highlights the hunt for helpful biomarkers of response to available options, and offers sequencing suggestions.

Anna T. Levy, DO, discuses the safety profile and appropriate dosing of cabozantinib in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Daratumumab appears to be safe when used as consolidation therapy in patients with multiple myeloma, even soon after autologous stem cell transplant, and the agent has also demonstrated early efficacy in the setting of very good responders.

Hye Sook Chon, MD, teases out some of the differences between the data with PARP inhibitors in the frontline maintenance setting and shed light on ongoing research with combinations that could broaden their utility in patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

Robert Dreicer, MD, discusses the optimal use of checkpoint inhibitors in urothelial carcinoma.

Now that interferon-alpha has been shown to prolong survival in patients with polycythemia vera, it is important that investigative efforts focus on developing a better understanding on the biology of the disease and the mechanisms by which the agent actually improves outcomes.

Investigators have launched the Epidemiology of Young Lung Cancer study to identify risk factors that can help shed light on why lung cancer develops in the younger population.

Jane L. Meisel, MD, discusses sequencing questions, tucatinib combinations under exploration, and emerging strategies for use in the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Pirtobrutinib showcased encouraging efficacy with an acceptable safety profile in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic leukemia, mantle cell lymphoma, and Waldenström macroglobulinemia who previously received a BTK inhibitor.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to the soluble LAG-3 protein eftilagimod alpha for use in the frontline treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Encouraging efficacy data for ripretinib as a later-line therapy for patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor have investigators hypothesizing new approaches to derive even greater benefit with the agent.

Conflicting results regarding the benefit of adjuvant CDK4/6 inhibition in early-stage hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer have prompted many questions regarding patient selection and treatment duration, which many hope will be answered with ongoing biomarker research.

Single-agent pembrolizumab resulted in a significant improvement in disease-free survival when used as an adjuvant treatment in patients with renal cell carcinoma following nephrectomy or nephrectomy and resection of metastatic lesions, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 trial.

The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab and nivolumab plus chemotherapy resulted in a statistically significant overall survival benefit compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

The success of the COVID-19 vaccines based on messenger RNA has led to a surge of interest from investigators, pharmaceutical companies, and investors in similar technology for other diseases, including a number of oncology indications.

Amit K. Verma, MD, spotlights new agents that have entered the myelodysplastic syndrome treatment arsenal and novel combinations currently under exploration, as well as efforts that are showing promise in patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Mazyar Shadman, MD, discusses considerations for BTK inhibitors in the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The FDA has recommended the early termination of a phase 2 trial examining the cell-based immunotherapy ERC1671 in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, cyclophosphamide, and bevacizumab in patients with glioblastoma.

The FDA has granted a regular approval to sacituzumab govitecan for the treatment of patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who have previously received 2 or more systemic therapies, at least 1 of them for metastatic disease.

Pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic modeling of the investigational MASP-2 inhibitor narsoplimab supported a weight-based dosing method for patients with hematopoietic stem cell transplant–associated thrombotic microangiopathy.