All Oncology News

Early experience with a newly designed pancreatic cancer multidisciplinary clinic workflow at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, showed significant improvement in terms of time to subspecialty evaluation.

Future advances in melanoma and other skin cancers should focus on team-oriented care and increasingly informed treatment sequencing regarding the roles of immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and surgery.

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx (Elahere) for the treatment of select patients with folate receptor α–positive, platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer.

In treating patients with locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer, one must consider multiple factors when deciding whether to treat them with immunotherapy or a targeted approach, even though the optimal treatment sequence has yet to be definitively established.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of olaparib in combination with abiraterone acetate and prednisone or prednisolone for use in adult patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in whom chemotherapy is not indicated.

Osimertinib remains the preferred first-line therapy for patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer. However, for those with classic EGFR mutations, the day is fast approaching when physicians will add chemotherapy to first-line treatment with the EGFR TKI based on ctDNA results.

Investigators are harnessing comprehensive molecular profiling to detect new targets, optimize existing treatment regimens, and develop novel therapies for patients with EGFR and MET exon 20–insertion positive non–small cell lung cancer.

At the request of the FDA, GlaxoSmithKline plc will restrict the second-line maintenance indication for niraparib to only the population of patients with recurrent ovarian cancer whose tumors harbor deleterious or suspected deleterious germline BRCA mutations.

A core component of any type of therapeutic research is to enhance clinical benefit.

The European Medicines Agency’s CHMP has recommended the approval of trastuzumab deruxtecan as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with advanced HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma who have received a prior trastuzumab-based regimen.

With no approved agents for patients with malignant tumors harboring TSC1 or TSC2 inactivating alterations, investigators seek to establish a new pathway forward for patients with solid tumors in the PRECISION 1 trial.

CYNK-101 demonstrated synergistic activity when used in combination with avelumab through antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity against PD-L1–positive non–small cell lung cancer, triple-negative breast cancer, and bladder cancer cell lines, according to preclinical data.

Alan L. Ho, MD, PhD, discusses targeted therapies such as TKIs that have demonstrated promising efficacy in multiple patient populations as well as the agents lenvatinib and pembrolizumab.

All patients with prostate cancer, except for those with low-risk or very low-risk localized disease, should be tested for germline mutations, and somatic testing should be done in all patients with metastatic disease as there are therapeutic implications.

For patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who experience disease progression on novel hormonal agents (NHAs) and androgen deprivation therapy, it is important to consider when the NHA was received and whether docetaxel has been administered, as these factors affect downstream options and sequencing.

As the role of genetic testing in clinical practice becomes more prevalent for patients with prostate cancer to identify mutations, physicians must consider a variety of factors to determine which patients are candidates for somatic and/or germline testing.

Because androgen deprivation therapy alone or with docetaxel is not recommended for most patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer, a decision must be made between leveraging couplets vs triplets.

CTX130, an investigational allogeneic, CRISP/Cas9 gene-edited, anti-CD70 CAR T-cell therapy, was found to be safe with early signs of clinical activity in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma, according to findings from the phase 1 COBALT-RCC trial.

David Albala, MD, discusses integrating PSMA-PET imaging into the clinic and determining which patients with prostate cancer are prime candidates.

The first-line combination of pembrolizumab and eftilagimod alpha elicited a 40.4% (95% CI, 31.3%-50.0%) overall response rate by immune RECIST criteria in the intent-to-treat population in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer, according to updated findings from the phase 2 TACTI-002 trial.

Neal Shore, MD, FACS, highlights the effect of genetic testing on the treatment paradigm of prostate cancer and the evolving treatment landscape for metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.

The FDA has approved tremelimumab-actl (Imjudo) plus durvalumab (Imfinzi) and platinum-based chemotherapy for adult patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer without sensitizing EGFR mutation or ALK aberrations.

The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab have shown overall survival benefit in patients with metastatic melanoma, according to long-term follow-up data, and other studies’ results highlight the efficacy and toxicity benefits of different sequences of the combination.

Research in breast cancer has led to remarkable progress in the understanding and management of the disease, but the oncology community can always do more to optimize treatment outcomes for patients.

The benefit of PARP maintenance therapy for patients with advanced ovarian cancer differs depending on a number of factors, including the homologous recombination and BRCA mutation status of the tumor.

A personalized neoantigen-specific and off-the-shelf T cell receptor T-cell therapy utilized through CRISPR gene editing technology demonstrated feasibility and tolerability in 16 patients across multiple tumor types, according to first-in-human phase 1a findings.

The FDA has approved brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) in combination with doxorubicin, vincristine, etoposide, prednisone, and cyclophosphamide in pediatric patients aged 2 years and older with previously untreated, high-risk classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

Milademetan monotherapy demonstrated preliminary antitumor activity in patients with MDM2-amplified and p53 wild-type advanced solid tumors.

Diane Reidy-Lagunes, MD, discussed the role of next-generation sequencing paired with systemic therapies and the option of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy in neuroendocrine malignancies.