All Oncology News

Among men in the United States, incidence-based mortality is growing for penile cancer even though incidence remained consistent from 2000 to 2018.

The addition of the HER2-Vaxx vaccine to standard-of-care chemotherapy led to a significant improvement in overall survival vs SOC chemotherapy alone in patients with HER2-neu overexpressing advanced and metastatic gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer.

The European Commission has granted approval to axicabtagene ciloleucel for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma after 3 or more prior lines of systemic therapy.

Teclistamab demonstrated superiority over physician’s choice of therapy for overall survival, progression-free survival, and time to next treatment in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute welcomes Board-certified medical oncologist Richard McDonough, MD to the statewide practice.

Daniel DeAngelo MD, PhD, discusses the data seen with obecabtagene autoleucel as a novel treatment in the CAR T-cell arena, emphasizes unmet needs in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and highlights important next steps in the study of obe-cel.

The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on the phase 1/2 NUV-422-02 trial evaluating the selective small molecule CDK2/4/6 inhibitor NUV-422 in patients with solid tumors such as high-grade glioma, hormone receptor–positive advanced breast cancer, and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of olaparib for the adjuvant treatment of patients with germline BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative, high-risk, early breast cancer who have received neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy.

The combination of anlotinib and sintilimab was found to provide a long-term survival benefit to patients with previously treated advanced cervical cancer.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended the approval of trastuzumab deruxtecan monotherapy for patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have received at least 1 prior anti–HER2-based regimen.

A supplemental New Drug Application has been submitted to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare seeking approval for use of trastuzumab deruxtecan for the treatment of adult patients with HER2-low unresectable or recurrent metastatic breast cancer following chemotherapy

A team of researchers with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has identified a new cellular oxygen-sensing pathway – a discovery that could potentially lead to new approaches for treating cancer and other diseases.

Adjuvant treatment with TX05 resulted in a similar disease-free survival benefit to that of trastuzumab in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer.

Batiraxcept will continue to be investigated in combination with cabozantinib, plus in combination with cabozantinib and nivolumab and as a single agent, in patients with advanced or metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma in a phase 2 study.

The combination of niraparib and dostarlimab produced a low overall response rate in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer without a known BRCA mutation who had progressed and received prior bevacizumab, one that did not reach the threshold for second-stage accrual to the phase 2 MOONSTONE/GOG-3032 trial.

The FDA has approved lisocabtagene maraleucel as second-line therapy for adult patients with large B-cell lymphoma, including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma not otherwise specified, high-grade B-cell lymphoma, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, and follicular lymphoma grade 3B.

The combination of amivantamab-vmjw and lazertinib produced encouraging responses with acceptable safety in patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer who progressed on osimertinib and platinum-based chemotherapy.

Robert Wenham, MD, MS, FACOG, FACS, discusses the current treatment landscape for patients with cervical and endometrial cancers, ADCs and PARP inhibitors in ovarian cancer, advancements in HER2-positive breast cancer, and surgical options for patients with ovarian cancer.

Retinoic acid receptor α, a gene overexpressed in approximately 30% of unfit patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia, has emerged as a potential therapeutic target.

The European Commission has approved pembrolizumab for adjuvant treatment of adult and adolescent patients 12 years and older with stage IIB or IIC melanoma who have undergone a complete resection.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute clinicians and leaders shared the latest advances in oncology pharmacy operations and dispensing practices at the National Community Oncology Dispensing Association 2022 Spring Forum held last month in Atlanta.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended granting marketing authorization for asciminib for the treatment of adult patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positive chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase who were previously treated with at least 2 TKIs.

The CAR T-cell therapy ciltacabtagene autoleucel generated a high response rate in patients with multiple myeloma who experienced early clinical relapse or failure to initial therapy.

Treatment with the combination of cobolimab and dostarlimab led to an overall objective response rate and immune-related ORR of 42.9% consisting of all partial responses in patients with advanced or metastatic melanoma.

Sikander Ailawadhi, MD, discusses early efficacy observed with iopofosine I-131, the rationale of investigating the agent in the CLOVER WaM trial in patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia, and how the radiotherapeutic could affect the treatment paradigm.

Tian Zhang, MD, discusses the benefits of multidisciplinary collaboration, how to select the best agents for each patient, and how treatments such as radiation in RCC and bladder-sparing chemoradiation in urothelial cancer fit into the overall treatment paradigms for these diseases.

The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has unanimously recommended full marketing authorization approval of melphalan flufenamide for patients with triple-class refractory multiple myeloma.

A new drug application has been submitted to the FDA seeking the approval of elacestrant in the treatment of patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative, advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Eunice Wang, MD, discusses the long-term results of a phase 2 trial investigating crenolanib plus chemotherapy in adult patients with newly diagnosed FLT3-mutant acute myeloid leukemia.