All Oncology News

The FDA has accepted and granted priority review to the new drug application for quizartinib in combination with standard cytarabine and anthracycline induction and standard cytarabine consolidation chemotherapy, and as continuation monotherapy following consolidation, for the treatment of newly diagnosed adult patients with FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.

Bridget A. Oppong, MD, discussed the importance of recognizing and addressing gaps in outcomes between patients with breast cancer in different racial groups. She also addressed the need for better advocacy for Black patients and advocated for improved screening guidelines to close the gap in racial disparities in breast cancer care.

The FDA has approved durvalumab (Imfinzi) in combination with tremelimumab (Imjudo) for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Xevinapant plus chemoradiotherapy more than halved the risk of death vs placebo plus chemoradiotherapy without increasing toxicity in patients with unresectable, locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The China National Medical Products Administration has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to ivonescimab for use in combination with chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer in whom prior treatment with an EGFR TKI has failed.

Kathleen N. Moore, MD, MS, discusses the incidence of TSC1 and TSC2 mutations in different gynecologic tumor types, the trial design and eligibility criteria for the PRECISION 1 study, and the importance of genetic testing to identify these mutations and treat them early.

The combination of encorafenib and binimetinib led to sustained improvements in progression-free survival and overall survival, without new safety signals in patients with BRAF V600–mutant melanoma, according to 5-year follow-up of the phase 3 COLUMBUS trial.

Immunotherapy and targeted therapy combinations containing BRAF and MEK inhibitors have carved out roles in different settings of melanoma, which has given clinicians different options for treatment sequencing.

The Florida Department of Health has awarded Nagaraj Nagathihalli, PhD, an associate professor at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, a $583,200 grant to study tobacco risk, tumor progression, and therapeutic options for pancreatic cancer.

Chemoresection with mitomycin C, a nonsurgical treatment modality, significantly reduced the need for transurethral resection of bladder tumors or office biopsy and tumor fulguration following recurrence in patients with recurrent nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer.

A new focus of research has reconsidered the mechanisms in regulating transcription as a novel target for advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Stacey A. Cohen, MD, discusses the results of real-world analysis of patients with resected stage I-III colorectal cancer, how circulating tumor DNA status correlated with recurrence rates, and how these real-world data compared with previous observational studies.

Paul A. DiSilvestro, MD, discussed the pivotal SOLO-1 trial of maintenance olaparib in patients with BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer, updated survival data with the agent in this population, and the next steps for future research.

Rana R. McKay, MD, discusses the evolution of frontline treatment options for metastatic RCC, and the key clinical trials that have shifted the treatment paradigms in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, and advanced prostate cancer.

Lucio Gordan, MD, chief medical officer of Therapeutics & Analytics for Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, is a featured speaker at the Illumina Genomics Forum in San Diego.

Targeted treatment options for patients with HER2-mutant non–small cell lung cancer have been slow to reach benchmarks for approval given the limited patient populations harboring this disease characteristic.

Richard M. Stone, MD, highlights how uproleselan disrupts E-selectin in the AML tumor microenvironment, the variety of AML regimens that uproleselan may amplify in efficacy, including chemotherapies and venetoclax combinations, and the need for further research to determine whether minimal residual disease negativity rates will improve patient prognoses.

Adjuvant treatment with nivolumab resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in recurrence-free survival over placebo in patients with completely resected stage IIB or IIC melanoma.

Farrukh Awan, MD, discusses new agents under investigation in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and mantle cell lymphoma and emphasizes the importance of weighing each drug’s risks and benefits against individual patient needs and preferences to make informed decisions.

The addition of palbociclib to adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET) failed to improve invasive disease-free survival over ET alone in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to TTI-101 for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma.

Recent developments in cancers of the thymus, a small organ located in the mediastinum above the heart, have shined a light on a malignancy that only affects about 400 Americans annually.

Rogaratinib induced an objective response rate similar to that of chemotherapy in patients with FGFR1/3 mRNA–positive locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have received at least 1 prior platinum-containing chemotherapy.

Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, PhD, MPH, as Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement.

Salarius Pharmaceuticals has voluntarily paused enrollment of new patients into a phase 1/2 trial investigating seclidemstat in patients with Ewing sarcoma, sarcomas with FET-family translocations, and myxoid liposarcoma due to the death of a patient.

Treatment decisions in the second-line setting for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer are not as cut-and-dried as deciding between which data have the best outcomes.

The accelerated approval of the FGFR inhibitor futibatinib on September 30, 2022, has expanded options for previously treated adult patients with unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma FGFR2 fusions or rearrangements.1

Farrukh Awan, MD, discusses transplant and chemotherapy options in frontline diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the emergence of CAR T-cell therapy in relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and available targeted therapies in acute myeloid leukemia.

Ubamatamab monotherapy produced early clinical activity and an acceptable risk/benefit profile in heavily pretreated patients with ovarian cancer.

Sophia George, PhD, is hoping to find new strategies for early detection of ovarian cancer, a disease that is particularly deadly for African American, Caribbean, and Jewish women.