All Oncology News

Teclistamab-cqyv in combination with talquetamab showcased early signs of activity with acceptable safety in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to final results from the phase 1b RedirecTT-1 study.

When manufactured via automated process the CLDN6-directed CAR T-cell therapy, BNT211, demonstrated encouraging signs of activity and a manageable safety profile with or without the addition of CLDN6-encoding mRNA vaccine in patients with CLDN6-positive relapsed/refractory advanced solid tumors.

Radium-223 was safe and did not preclude patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer from receiving subsequent life-prolonging therapies, including chemotherapy.

Belzutifan plus lenvatinib generated responses and displayed a manageable safety profile in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma whose disease progressed following treatment with a PD-1/L1 inhibitor and a VEGF TKI.

The use of talazoparib plus enzalutamide was manageable with dose modifications or standard supportive care treatment in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who received darolutamide were observed to have a longer time to treatment discontinuation and progression to metastatic castration-resistant disease than those who received enzalutamide or apalutamide.

The addition of pembrolizumab to neoadjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy followed by resection and adjuvant pembrolizumab alone resulted in a significant improvement in event-free survival and pathological response for patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer.

Zanidatamab generated responses in patients with HER2-amplified, locally advanced, unresectable or metastatic biliary tract cancer who were previously treated with gemcitabine.

Liposomal irinotecan plus 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin and oxaliplatin generated statistically significant and clinically meaningful overall survival and progression-free survival benefits compared with gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel in treatment-naïve patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma experienced manageable and low-grade immune-related adverse events with single tremelimumab regular interval durvalumab.

The addition of durvalumab to standard upfront therapy with chemotherapy and bevacizumab followed by maintenance bevacizumab, durvalumab, and olaparib led to a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy and bevacizumab alone in patients with newly diagnosed, advanced ovarian cancer without a BRCA1/2 mutation.

A clinically meaningful absolute risk reduction in invasive disease-free survival and distant relapse-free survival with abemaciclib plus endocrine therapy was maintained in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, high-risk early breast cancer regardless of age.

Brexucabtagene autoleucel elicited high rates of complete remission with minimal residual disease negativity in real-world patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who received the CAR T-cell product as post-approval, standard-of-care treatment, according to data from a retrospective study.

Obecabtagene autoleucel was associated with a 76% complete response (CR)/CR with incomplete count recovery rate in adult patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Treatment with the first-in-class direct and competitive telomerase inhibitor imetelstat resulted in statistically significant and clinically meaningful efficacy in patients with heavily transfusion dependent, non-del(5q) lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome that is relapsed or refractory to erythropoiesis stimulating agents, according to findings from the phase 3 IMerge trial.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC has named Wilfredo Blasini, MD as Medical Director of the Central Pathology Laboratory.

Simple hysterectomy was found to be noninferior to radical hysterectomy and pelvic node dissection in patients with low-risk, early-stage cervical cancer, according to results of the Canadian Cancer Trials Group CX.5/SHAPE trial.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of piflufolastat 18F, a prostate-specific membrane antigen–targeted positron emission tomography imaging agent, for use in prostate cancer detection.

Higher baseline HER3-positive circulating tumor cell count at baseline and reduction following treatment initiation was associated with a higher likelihood of deriving an early response with patritumab deruxtecan in patients with hormone receptor–positive or HER2-low advanced breast cancer.

The first patient has been dosed with the autologous CAR T-cell therapy A2B530 in the multicenter, first-in-human, phase 1/2 EVEREST-1 study.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC continues to forge new partnerships with alternative payment models and payers

The China National Medical Products Adminstration’s Center for Drug Evaluation has recommended that olverembatinib receive breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor that is succinate dehydrogenase deficient.

A new clinical trial is testing the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment following surgery for a subset of pancreatic cancer patients.

Subcutaneous delivery of fixed-dose adjuvant pertuzumab plus trastuzumab proved to have favorable tolerability, with a safety profile consistent with that seen with intravenous delivery of the regimen in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

The FDA has approved olaparib (Lynparza) plus abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) and prednisone or prednisolone for the treatment of patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious BRCA-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, as determined by an FDA-approved companion diagnostic test.

Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy displayed a manageable safety profile consistent with previous reports in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, irrespective of UGT1A1 status, according to a safety analysis of the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 trial.

The combination of panitumumab and standard-of-care trifluridine-tipiracil rechallenge delivered a progression-free survival benefit vs trifluridine-tipiracil alone in the third-line setting in patients with refractory RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer, meeting the primary end point of the phase 2 VELO trial.

Atezolizumab in combination with trastuzumab and vinorelbine generated responses and a tolerable safety profile in patients with HER2-positive, estrogen receptor–negative or ER-positive/PAM50 non-luminal advanced breast cancer, according to data from a prespecified interim analysis of the phase 2 ATREZZO trial.

Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Mary Daly, MD, PhD, FACP was recently recognized as the first recipient of the BRCA Impact Award from Penn Medicine’s Basser Center for BRCA.

Tycel Phillips, MD, discusses the significance of the FDA approval for epcoritamab in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, key data from the EPCORE NHL-1 trial that support this approval, and how the approval of epcoritamab signals the expanding role of bispecific antibodies in this patient population.