All Oncology News

Safety and efficacy data from a pooled pooled analysis confirm that patients who are Black or Hispanic with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer can be treated with palbociclib plus endocrine therapy.

Black patients with breast cancer were more likely to experience treatment modifications or discontinuations in the neoadjuvant setting compared with White patients.

The FDA has approved FoundationOne CDx for use as a companion diagnostic for 2 groups of current a future regulatory-approved treatments in melanoma, including single-agent BRAF inhibitors targeting BRAF V600E mutations and BRAF/MEK combination regimens targeting BRAF V600E or V600K mutations.

First-line treatment with ribociclib/letrozole improved overall survival over placebo in patients with postmenopausal, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, irrespective of metastatic site, number of sites, or prior (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy and endocrine therapy.

Survey data collected from more than 1400 laboratories around the world have demonstrated poor agreement in the evaluation of patients with breast cancer who have a low HER2 immunohistochemistry score of 0 or 1+ using standard HER2 assays.

Higher Oncotype DX recurrence scores were associated with prolonged persistence to 5 years of endocrine therapy vs lower Oncotype DX recurrence scores in patients with low-risk, estrogen receptor-positive/progesterone receptor–positive breast cancer, according to findings from a retrospective review.

Datopotamab deruxtecan showed highly encouraging and durable efficacy through overall response rates in patients with advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

The combination of entinostat and exemestane led to a significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with placebo and exemestane in Chinese patients with advanced hormone receptor–positive breast cancer.

Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in event-free survival in patients with early-stage triple negative breast cancer.

Adding adjuvant palbociclib to standard endocrine therapy did not improve outcomes in patients with stage II to III hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer.

Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in both progression-free survival and overall survival vs chemotherapy alone in patients with previously untreated, locally recurrent, inoperable, or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who have a PD-L1 combined positive score of 10 or higher.

Metformin failed to improve invasive disease-free survival or overall survival when used as adjuvant treatment in patients with early breast cancer, irrespective of estrogen or progesterone receptor status.

The role of adoptive cell therapy with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes for patients with melanoma has undergone scrutiny as efforts to unpack the correlation between the duration of prior immunotherapy and efficacy outcomes.

Patients with primary breast cancer who developed secondary uterine cancer following treatment with tamoxifen may have had disease driven by PI3K-pathway activation.

The highest incidence of lymphedema observed was among the Black women with a 24-month lymphedema rate of 39.4%.

Patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer with rising ESR1 mutations previously treated with an aromatase inhibitor plus palbociclib had a doubling of progression-free survival when switched to fulvestrant plus palbociclib before disease progression, according to findings from the phase 3 PADA-1 trial.

Genomic alterations identified through multigene sequencing, classified in the I/II tiers of the ESMO Scale of Actionability of Molecular Targets, and paired with matching targeted therapy led to a significant improvement in progression-free survival vs maintenance chemotherapy in patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Imaging mass cytometry at the single-cell level showed potential as an immunotherapy response prediction tool in early triple-negative breast cancer.

The FDA has awarded 510K clearance to the Exablate Prostate system for the treatment of prostate cancer.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to ST101, a peptide antagonist of C/EBPβ, for the treatment of patients with recurrent glioblastoma.

A new drug application seeking the approval of poziotinib as a potential therapeutic option for patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer with HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations has been submitted to the FDA.

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, discussed the results of the phase 2 CAPTIVATE trial and the phase 1/2 TRANSCEND CLL 004 trial, and looked ahead to what the future holds for MRD in patients with CLL.

Secura Bio, Inc. has decided to voluntarily withdraw the indication of duvelisib for use in patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma following at least 2 previous systemic therapies.

Andrea Moreira, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon specializing in the use of advanced techniques in breast reconstruction, has joined Allegheny Health Network from Cleveland Clinic and will serve as Co-Director of the Microsurgery and Breast Reconstruction Program in the AHN Division of Plastic Surgery.

Various immune strategies have been developed in multiple myeloma, including immune-enhancing drugs such as immunomodulatory drugs, checkpoint inhibitors, monoclonal antibodies, and, more recently, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy and bispecific antibodies for T-cell redirection.

Meghan Thompson, MD, discusses the results from the use of pirtobrutinib in the phase 1/2 BRUIN study, as well as upcoming research efforts in the population of patients with Richter transformation.

Filip Janku, MD, PhD, discusses the phase 1 study with ripretinib in patients with KIT-mutated or KIT-amplified melanoma.

Margaret von Mehren, MD, discusses the value of ribociclib plus everolimus for patients with dedifferentiated liposarcoma, and how further research will be focused on biomarker analysis.

Image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy caused less toxicity compared with three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy with no difference in disease outcomes in patients with cervical cancer undergoing postoperative radiation therapy.

The FDA has approved pembrolizumab for the adjuvant treatment of adult and pediatric patients with stage IIB or IIC melanoma following complete resection.