All Oncology News

Janeesh Sekkath Veedu, MBBS, discusses the need for research comparing outcomes with surgery-based treatment vs CRT and immunotherapy in stage IIIA NSCLC, shares findings from a NCDB analysis, and emphasizes the importance of continuing this research as updated data become available.

Jennifer M. Matro, MD, discusses the real-world implications and uptake of the HER2CLIMB regimen, other trials investigating tucatinib-based regimens in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, and how approaches differ between early-stage and metastatic hormone receptor–positive/HER2-negative breast cancer.

Oliver Dorigo, MD, PhD, explains how MVP-S leverages the DPX platform to produce persistent anti-survivin immune infiltration, highlights the antitumor activity and safety observed with the combination when given to patients with recurrent ovarian cancer, and describes additional research efforts underway.

The use of next-generation sequencing demonstrated that the most prevalent genomic alterations in patients with endometrioid ovarian carcinoma include ARID1A, PIK3CA, PTEN, CTNNB1, KRAS, and P53.

Daniel Walden, MD, discusses the goal of analyzing RNA expression of wild-type HR genes in CRC, the importance of evaluating the benefit of chemotherapeutic approaches in patients with HRP CRC based on RNA expression levels, and the next steps for validating and implementing these findings in clinical practice.

The European Medicines Agency has granted Priority Medicines scheme designation to the personalized cancer vaccine mRNA-4157/V940 and pembrolizumab for use as adjuvant treatment in patients with high-risk, stage III or IV melanoma following complete resection.

The phase 3 LEAP-003 and LEAP-017 trials evaluating pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib did not meet their primary end points of overall survival in select patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma and metastatic colorectal cancer, respectively.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence announced final draft guidance recommending the PARP inhibitor olaparib for patients with HER2-negative, high-risk early breast cancer harboring a BRCA1/2 mutation, as well as for those with previously treated hormone-relapsed metastatic prostate cancer with a BRCA1/2 mutation.

AbbVie has announced the intention to voluntarily withdraw indications for ibrutinib in patients with mantle cell lymphoma who have previously received at least 1 therapy and in those with marginal zone lymphoma who require systemic treatment and have received at least 1 prior anti–CD20-based therapy.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a way to treat the area surrounding breast tumors that have spread to bone so that such tumors become vulnerable to attack by the body’s immune system.

In an era of genomics, proteomics, and immunology a biomarker as simple as anatomy may be useful in terms of predicting responses in patients with colorectal cancer.

CAR T-cell therapies have transformed the treatment landscape of multiple hematologic malignancies since they first rose to prominence, but they are associated with a high financial cost, both for the patient and the health care institution that provides them.

Robert L. Coleman, MD, FACOG, FACS, discusses a subgroup analysis of the SORAYA trial, which was presented during the 2023 Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer, and where the field is headed in attempt to address unmet needs for this patient population.

Stacey A. Cohen, MD, discusses the advantages and limitations of ctDNA as a biomarker for detecting minimal residual disease , real-world data on the relationship between fluctuating cfDNA levels and ctDNA detection, and how implementing ctDNA testing earlier to identify minimal residual disease could serve as a prognostic tool in clinical practice.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to CB-011, a CRISPR-edited allogeneic CAR T-cell therapy developed by Caribou Biosciences, for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Combining the immune checkpoint inhibitor dostarlimab-gxly with standard-of-care chemotherapy elicited an increase in progression-free survival rates compared with chemotherapy alone for patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

Stephanie L. Graff, MD, gives an overview of recently approved ADCs in TNBC and HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, as well as the importance of continued research with these agents in the first-line setting.

Pharmacy experts and leaders from Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute will join with colleagues this week to share the latest advances in oncology pharmacy operations and dispensing practices at the NCODA 2023 Spring Forum in Indianapolis.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to SynKIR-110 for the treatment of patients with mesothelioma.

Elias Jabbour, MD; Harry Paul Erba, MD, PhD; Anjali Advani, MD; and Sameem Abedin, MD, discuss key updates pertaining to the leukemia treatment landscape that were presented at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Single-agent liposomal irinotecan resulted in a similar median overall survival and progression-free survival to that achieved with topotecan in patients with small cell lung cancer that had progressed on or following frontline platinum-based chemotherapy.

First-line cemiplimab monotherapy or in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy conferred long-term clinical benefit to patients with unresectable, locally advanced non–­small cell lung cancer who were ineligible for concurrent chemoradiation.

Venetoclax, alone or in combination with a BTK inhibitor, improved overall response rate in patients with pretreated, high-risk mantle cell lymphoma, according to findings from a retrospective study. However, the BCL-2 inhibitor was associated with short durations of progression-free survival.

Miguel Villalona-Calero, MD, discusses the unique mechanism of action of KB-0742 and the rationale and design of a phase 1 trial investigating the safety and efficacy of KB-0742 in patients with relapsed/refractory solid tumors or non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Research from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute looks at what happens before the emergence of mutations that interrupt cellular differentiation in colorectal cancer and finds not only evidence of fetal reprogramming that can initiate cancer, but also a protein, Sox9, that fuels that reprogramming.

The FDA has accepted a biologics license application for the HLX02, a proposed trastuzumab biosimilar, as adjuvant therapy for patients with HER2-overexpressing breast cancer, HER2-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer, and HER2-overexpressing metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma

Induction therapy with durvalumab plus chemotherapy and bevacizumab, followed by maintenance with olaparib plus durvalumab and bevacizumab, elicited a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy plus bevacizumab in patients with newly diagnosed advanced high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer who did not harbor BRCA mutations.

A recent retrospective study found that patients with endometrial cancer in International FICO stage I high- intermediate risk subgroups with fewer than 2 risk factors had a greater than 95% cause-specific survival at 3-year follow-up, and subgroups with 2 or more risk factors had poorer outcomes.

Because of the disease’s rarity relative to other hematologic malignancies and challenges arriving at an accurate diagnosis, patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm have historically encountered a dearth of effective treatment options.

Adagrasib induced high overall response rates in patients with KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer who achieved at least 90% mutation allele frequency clearance.