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A lead-in dosing strategy for the combination of sotorasib in combination with either pembrolizumab or atezolizumab showed promising efficacy and relatively low rates of hepatotoxicity in patients with KRAS G12C–positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Sitravatinib in combination with tislelizumab demonstrated a confirmed investigator-assessed overall response rate of 30.4% in patients with PD-L1–positive, treatment-naïve, locally advanced or metastatic squamous non–small cell lung cancer.

GDC-6036, a novel KRAS G12C inhibitor, produced encouraging antitumor activity with a manageable safety profile as a single agent in previously treated patients with KRAS G12C–mutated NSCLC, according to data from a phase 1a trial.

Sintilimab, both as a single agent and in combination with chemotherapy, generated comparable efficacy and safety vs pembrolizumab in patients with untreated metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Four distinct subgroups, each associated with distinctive signaling pathways, microenvironments, and clinical-pathologic futures, were discovered in a population of patients with MET exon 14 skipping non–small cell lung cancer.

The use of a platinum-based chemotherapy and anti–PD-1 regimen was supported by differences in upregulated antigen processing, T-cell receptor coexpression, and lymphocyte infiltration pathways in patients with or without pathologic complete responses who had stage IIIA resectable non–small cell lung cancer.

Sugemalimab appeared to be safe and effective when used as consolidation therapy for patients with unresectable stage III non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who did not have disease progression following concurrent chemoradiation or sequential chemoradiation.

The combination use of first-line durvalumab plus tremelimumab for the treatment of patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer improved overall survival compared with standard-of-care chemotherapy.

Larotrectinib continued to elicit durable responses and a low toxicity profile in patients with NTRK fusion–positive lung cancer, according to long-term follow-up data from the phase 2 NAVIGATE trial and phase 1 LOXO-TRK-14001 trial.

Ociperlimab, an anti-TIGIT monoclonal antibody, plus the anti–PD-L1 monoclonal antibody tislelizumab induced promising efficacy in adults with treatment-naïve, metastatic, PD-L1–positive non­–small cell lung cancer, according to data from the dose-expansion cohort of the AdvanTIG-105 trial.

The addition of tremelimumab to durvalumab and chemotherapy improved clinical benefit and survival benefit vs. chemotherapy alone in patients with PD-L1–negative metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Second- or third-line tislelizumab continued to display an overall survival benefit vs docetaxel in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Investigators are evaluating the combination of repotrectinib and osimertinib for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer in the phase 1 TOTEM trial.

Neoadjuvant adagrasib as monotherapy or in combination with nivolumab may elicit improved pathologic complete response rates in patients with resectable, KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer, according to the rationale for the phase 2 Neo-KAN study.

The antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan will be evaluated vs single-agent docetaxel during the phase 3 EVOKE-01 trial in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Acquired resistance because of genetic alterations in the MET receptor has limited the efficacy of the EGFR inhibitor osimertinib in patients with non–small cell lung cancer. Investigators have sought to circumvent this barrier through targeting MET protein activity with the addition of the novel MET TKI, savolitinib.

The FDA has approved darolutamide tablets in combination with docetaxel for adult patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Amrita Krishnan, MD, discusses emerging data on bispecific antibodies, the exploration of the antibody-drug conjugate belantamab mafodotin, and the challenges of delivering CAR T-cell therapy in the right setting to the appropriate patients with multiple myeloma.

The FDA has approved fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-low breast cancer.

What began as a small community effort seven decades ago has resulted in a new series of grants to accelerate groundbreaking research at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.

The FDA has approved a new tablet formulation of acalabrutinib for all current indications, including adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, small lymphocytic lymphoma, and for those with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

Research investigating the physical and mental health consequences of being at the World Trade Center site during and after the terrorist attacks has been instrumental in obtaining health care coverage for thousands of individuals.

The combination of azacitidine and quizartinib produced preliminary responses in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome and myelodysplastic syndrome/myeloproliferative neoplasms whose tumors harbored FLT3 or CBL mutations, according to data from a phase 1/2 trial (NCT04493138).

Avelumab plus talazoparib showcased a favorable toxicity profile and overall modest activity in patients with mismatch repair–proficient endometrial cancer; however, immunogenomic profiling revealed a certain subset who might derive benefit from the doublet, warranting further investigation.

Giuseppe Lo Russo, MD, PhD, highlights the future role of liquid biopsy, the evolution of targeted therapies for KRAS G12C mutations, data to look forward to with EGFR-targeted agents, and the striking effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the mortality rates of patients with lung cancer.

Yasir Y. Elamin, MD, explained the rationale, design, and key findings of a phase 2 study evaluating poziotinib in patients with EGFR exon 20–mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a five-year Cancer Center Core Support Grant of $27,477,570 from the National Cancer Institute.

The European Commission has approved olaparib as a single agent or in combination with endocrine therapy for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with germline BRCA1/2-mutated, HER2-negative, high-risk early breast cancer.

Prevention and mitigation of cardiovascular events, such as thrombohemorrhagic complications, have been the main goal of treatment development for patients with essential thrombocythemia and polycythemia vera.

National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers routinely perform clinical trial site self-assessments. However, participation in these types of assessments is far less commonplace among community oncology sites.