All Oncology News

Sanjiv S. Agarwala, MD, explains that biologics have revolutionized the treatment of serious conditions, including cancer, over the past few decades, however, costs are a pressing issue for all providers and biologics are a major culprit.

E. Gabriela Chiorean, MD, discusses some of the recent developments in pancreatic cancer, HCC, and NETs, as well as multidisciplinary approaches for treating these patients.

Triplet regimens leveraging novel agents targeted at overcoming mechanisms of resistance in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors and anti-angiogenic therapies represent the next frontier in hepatocellular carcinoma.

David J. Pinato, MD, discusses guidelines for toxicity management in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

The combination of atezolizumab and bevacizumab elicited an improved overall survival benefit compared with sorafenib in patients with albumin-bilirubin grade 1 hepatocellular carcinoma, according to findings from an exploratory subgroup analysis of the phase 3 IMbrave150 trial.

Biomarkers of response to immunotherapy, characterized by high interferon signaling and expression of MHC-II related genes, predicted for improved survival in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma following immediate treatment with a PD-1 inhibitor but not in those who had first received treatment with a TKI.

The addition of selective internal radiation therapy with Y90 resin microspheres to gemcitabine/cisplatin resulted in a median overall survival of 21.6 months for patients with inoperable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, according to prospective phase 2 data.

Combining durvalumab and tremelimumab plus transcatheter arterial chemoembolization or radiofrequency ablation was found to be both efficacious and safe as a treatment for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, according to results of a pilot study.

Josep M. Llovet, MD, discusses the importance of identifying biomarkers of response to checkpoint inhibitors for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, as well as future research directions.

Pirtobrutinib elicited encouraging responses across all dose levels in patients with mantle cell lymphoma and other non-Hodgkin lymphoma who previously received all classes of available therapy, with benefit observed independent of prior therapy received, according to data from the phase 1/2 BRUIN study.

More detrimental effects on health-related quality of life were reported, and lasted for at least 12 months, with the combination of trastuzumab plus chemotherapy compared with trastuzumab alone in older patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, according to an analysis of the phase 3 RESPECT trial.

The phase 2a MYLOX-1 trial is evaluating GB2064, a novel, oral LOXL2 inhibitor, as a potential anti-fibrotic treatment option for patients with myelofibrosis.

Devimistat in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin has moved into the phase 2 portion of a phase 1b/2 trial studying the regimen as a first-line treatment for patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic biliary tract cancer.

The European Commission has granted an expanded approval to ravulizumab-cwvz to include children with a body weight of at least 10 kg, as well as adolescents, with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

Most physician-scientists are intense, motivated and focused, but Keith T. Flaherty, MD, takes it to another level.

Genomic-adjusted radiation dose demonstrated a significant association with time to first recurrence and overall survival in patients with certain solid tumors who had been treated with radiation therapy, indicating that genomics should be used to guide radiation dosing decisions.

Following the integration of immunotherapy into the treatment paradigm of triple-negative breast cancer, a multidisciplinary panel of experts, brought together by the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, published the first clinical practice guidelines focused on navigating clinical decisions with immunotherapy in breast cancer.

The combination of cabozantinib and nivolumab as a neoadjuvant regimen led to encouraging margin-negative resection and major pathological response rates in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, according to results of a single-arm, phase 1b study that were published in Nature Cancer.

The universal cancer vaccine UV1 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in combination with pembrolizumab elicited encouraging initial signs of clinical response with favorable safety and tolerability when used in the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma, meeting the primary end point of an ongoing phase 1 trial.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to gavocabtagene autoleucel as a potential treatment for patients with cholangiocarcinoma.

It is difficult to overstate the confusion associated with our nation’s messaging regarding a well-considered, rational, and scientifically based public health–focused approach to the current and future ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The combination of pevonedistat plus azacitidine as a frontline treatment for patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, and low-blast acute myeloid leukemia did not achieve predefined statistical significance for the primary end point of event-free survival in the phase 3 PANTHER trial.

Valentina Baez Sosa, MD, shares how her early life experiences in gymnastics and coaching have helped her become a better hematology/oncology physician.

An increase in the use of concurrent chemoradiation followed by durvalumab was found in patients with stage III non–small cell lung cancer who were treated at 3 Dutch centers in The Netherlands between 2015 and 2019.

The FDA has approved zanubrutinib for the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

The rolling submission of a biologics license application to support the approval of both toripalimab plus gemcitabine- and cisplatin-based chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, as well as toripalimab monotherapy for the second-line or beyond treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma after platinum-based chemotherapy has been completed.

More tailored selection processes, which have placed a greater emphasis on patient-specific characteristics, such as risk and genomic status, and made possible with a growing number of treatment options, have led to optimized therapeutic decisions for patients with hematologic malignancies.

The topical HDAC inhibitor remetinostat demonstrated favorable tolerability and clinically significant efficacy in reducing disease burden in patients with basal cell carcinoma, according to results from a phase 2 trial.

Jay M. Lee, MD, discusses the implications of the ADAURA trial in early-stage resectable NSCLC, the importance of molecular testing, and the need for a multidisciplinary approach in this population.

Zanidatamab is being combined with tucatinib and capecitabine in a new cohort of a phase 1 trial of patients with locally advanced and/or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.