All Oncology News

Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute’s breast cancer program has been granted accredited status by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, a quality program administered by the American College of Surgeons.

Data presented at the ESMO Congress 2022 highlighted advances across treatment modalities, including landmark data for trials in melanoma, breast cancer, and lung cancer, as well as early data that made headlines in a subgroup of patients with colon cancer.

Kathleen N. Moore, MD, MS, discusses the clinical implications of the potential FDA approval of mirvetuximab soravtansine, observations from other antibody-drug conjugates under investigation in clinical trials, and the rationale of examining PARP inhibitor–based combinations in ovarian cancer.

Kiran Virdee, RN, BSN, CCRN-K, outlines the best practices for the management of adverse effects during the treatment of kidney cancer.

Rana M. McKay, MD, and Yousef Zakharia, MD, debate the pros and cons of doublet vs triplet combination therapies in the frontline setting for patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Tivozanib continued to display a progression­-free survival benefit and rates vs sorafenib in patients with relapsed/refractory renal cell carcinoma who received 2 or 3 prior systemic regimens.

The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab led to significant improvements in survival vs sunitinib in patients with intermediate- and poor-risk renal cell carcinoma with sarcomatoid features.

Lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab reduced the need for second-line therapy by 42.8% compared with sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Patients with treatment-naïve advanced renal cell carcinoma who received nivolumab plus cabozantinib achieved deeper objective responses leading to improved progression-free survival and overall survival rates vs those who received sunitinib, according to exploratory data from the CheckMate 9ER trial.

The combination of lenvatinib plus everolimus is under evaluation vs cabozantinib in the phase 2 LenCabo trial for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma who have progressed on prior treatment with a PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor.

Five-year follow-up data from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-189 trial further confirms the use of first-line pembrolizumab in combination with pemetrexed and platinum improves long-term survival outcomes for patients with treatment-naïve, metastatic, nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.

Bradley McGregor, MD, discusses the factors that affect frontline treatment decisions for patients with advanced RCC, the importance of longer-term follow-up of phase 3 trials in kidney cancer, and the benefits of dual immunotherapy and immunotherapy/TKI treatment combinations.

Evaluating tumor’s genomic profile enables patients to receive more targeted and customized treatment, as well as increased eligibility for clinical trials.

Eric Jonasch, MD, discusses key clinical trials that are paving the way for improved treatment sequencing in renal cell carcinoma and the prospective benefits of neoadjuvant cabozantinib in nonmetastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Ibrutinib induced a cumulative overall response rate of 90.0% in 3-year findings from the Belgian Ibrutinib Real‑World Data study of patients with previously untreated or relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Bobbie J. Rimel, MD, discusses how PARP inhibitors are deployed across different treatment settings of ovarian cancer, the recent market withdrawal of PARP inhibitors in later-line indications, and ongoing research efforts at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for patients with ovarian cancer.

Melissa L. Johnson, MD, shares key insights from the meeting, including pertinent findings in KRAS G12C¬–mutated NSCLC from the phase 3 CodeBreak 200 study and positive findings with atezolizumab in platinum-ineligible patients with NSCLC.

Continued treatment for patients with cancer near end of life delays conversations about goals of care and hospice enrollment, escalates costs, and may adversely affect the quality of care patients receive.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to elranatamab for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

SRF388 elicited responses in pretreated patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Rona Yaeger, MD, discusses the unmet needs for patients with KRAS G12C–mutated colorectal cancer and the promising combination therapy of adagrasib and cetuximab.

Uproleselan, an agent that disrupts the interaction between leukemia cells and their protective E-selectin microenvironment, is a promising novel AML therapy that may increase the efficacy and durability of other AML treatments.

Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS, discussed the changes to the classifications of MDS, the evolution of targeted therapies for patients with acute myeloid leukemia, and approaches for patients with bone marrow failure syndromes.

The FDA has approved leuprolide acetate injection for use in the palliative treatment of patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Antonio Iavarone, MD, has made a decades-long commitment to finding better treatments for glioblastoma and other aggressive brain tumors. As the new deputy director of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, he will have opportunities to do even more.

Craig Sauter, MD, and Brian T. Hill, MD, PhD, consider CAR T-cell therapy in the second-line setting for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Craig Sauter, MD, and Brian T. Hill, MD, PhD, discuss recent data showing that the CAR T-cell production can be shortened.

Craig Sauter, MD, and Brian T. Hill, MD, PhD, discuss potential directions for CAR T-cell therapy in lymphomas.

Brian T. Hill, MD, PhD, and Craig Sauter, MD, discuss the promise of allogeneic CAR T-cell products.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to OTX-2002 for the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.