All Oncology News

With 2 KRAS G12C inhibitors showing encouraging results in combination with anti-EGFR agents, there is a ray of hope for patients with recurrent colon cancer–a treatment that may offer patients the chance to make it to important milestones.

Avero Diagnostics has launched AMBLor, a first-of-its-kind laboratory test for the identification of early-stage melanoma at low risk of progression.

Cardiovascular diseases are the follow-up threats many men face after undergoing androgen deprivation therapy, also known as hormonal treatment, for prostate cancer.

Treatment with crovalimab led to disease control through transfusion avoidance and control of hemolysis in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria who have not been previously treated with complement inhibitors.

An economic analysis showed that neither polatuzumab vedotin-piiq added to standard of care chemotherapy nor CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy is likely to be the most cost-effective for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The safety and efficacy of a combination regimen comprised of XL092 and atezolizumab is being compared with that of regorafenib monotherapy in patients with microsatellite stable or microsatellite instability–low metastatic colorectal cancer who have progressed on or are intolerant to standard-of-care therapy.

If the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee meeting held on February 10, 2022, was any indication, the days of applying foreign single country or region data to support regulatory approval are gone; instead, regulatory decisions are headed toward the need for regional consistency through multiregional clinical trials, which could help the United States overcome the persistent underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in drug development.

As more agents are evaluated either in addition to or following PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors, more information may be learned about how best to leverage alternate biomarkers, according to Marina C. Garassino, MD.

FDA approvals in recent years have started to carve out a role for immunotherapy in the frontline treatment of patients with small cell lung cancer.

The RaDaR assay successfully identified the patients with locoregionally advanced urothelial cancer most likely to benefit from treatment with ipilimumab and nivolumab in findings from the second cohort of the phase 1b/2a NABUCCO trial.

Fox Chase Cancer Center physicians Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS, and Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, have been named to the 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate.

The FDA has accepted for review a biologics license application for a proposed denosumab biosimilar, according to an announcement from Sandoz, Inc.

Although the incidence, location, and histology of esophageal cancer vary globally, patients in the Western World typically develop esophageal cancer in the distal esophagus or at the gastroesophageal junction.

Natalie S. Callander, MD, contextualizes the implications of the phase 3 ATLAS trial findings alongside other trials investigating maintenance regimens with triplet therapies in multiple myeloma.

Rachna T. Shroff, MD, MS, expands on the rationale for evaluating the addition of nab-paclitaxel to gemcitabine/cisplatin in patients with newly diagnosed biliary tract cancers, data presented from SWOG 1815, and how this study may pave the way for future research efforts in the paradigm.

The World Health Organization has released new framework guidelines with the goal of saving 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040 through a combination of early detection, timely diagnosis, and comprehensive management.

Andrzej Jakubowiak, MD, PhD, highlighted several key studies that influenced the development and design of the ATLAS trial, introduced conclusions from the initial efficacy data, and discussed how ongoing analysis could further contextualize and inform post-transplant treatment approaches in multiple myeloma.

Revumenib resulted in deep response rates, facilitating subsequent transplant in patients with KMT2A-rearranged or NMP1-mutant, relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia.

To synthesize advancements in the detection, treatment, and prevention of kidney cancer and summarize their effects globally, Fox Chase Cancer Center Urologic Oncology Fellow Laura Bukavina, MD, MPH, spearheaded a recent review on the topic.

The FDA has approved sacituzumab govitecan-hziy (Trodelvy) for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer who have received endocrine-based therapy and at least 2 additional systemic therapies in the metastatic setting.

The combination of pembrolizumab plus carboplatin and paclitaxel demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival vs chemotherapy alone in the first-line treatment of patients with stage III/IV or recurrent endometrial cancer.

The MOUNTAINEER-03 trial is designed to evaluate the efficacy of tucatinib and trastuzumab plus modified leucovorin calcium, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin, compared with standard-of-care, first-line therapy for metastatic HER2-positive colorectal cancer.

Ryan Jacobs, MD, highlighted the updated safety and efficacy results from the minimal residual disease cohort of the CAPTIVATE trial, discussed unanswered questions regarding minimal residual disease as a predictive vs prognostic tool in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and outlined areas that are ripe for further exploration.

Radiation plus docetaxel improved disease-free survival and overall survival vs radiation alone in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma unsuitable for cisplatin-based chemoradiation, regardless of patients’ prespecified prognostic groups, according to findings from a phase 2/3 trial.

Laura Dawson, MD, FRCPC, discusses data from the NRG/RTOG 1112 trial examining the addition of stereotactic body radiation therapy to sorafenib, the implications of the data for the locally advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treatment paradigm, and next steps for research.

Timothy Burns, MD, PhD, discusses the evolution of EGFR-targeted non–small cell lung cancer treatments, the importance of delineating small cell lung cancer subtypes, and the advantages of continued antibody-drug conjugate development across all areas of lung cancer.

Amar U. Kishan, MD, discusses the safety results of MRI-guided SBRT compared with the current standard of care, highlights the benefits of using an MRI to guide radiation for patients with prostate cancer, and explains other areas where MRI-guided SBRT could explored.

A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that undergoing more frequent computed tomography scans was not associated with improved outcomes following lung cancer surgery.

Stephanie A. Berg, DO, highlights ongoing urothelial cancer clinical trials; the role of single-agent immunotherapy and combinations in this disease; and the importance of future research that prioritizes and guides individualized patient care.

For Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, director of breast medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, his work on the RxPONDER trial serves as one of a few accomplishments for which he is grateful that have impacted clinical care.