All Oncology News

The European Commission has approved the dual immunotherapy combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab for use in the frontline treatment of adults with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma.

A personalized adjuvant neoantigen peptide vaccine, PGV-001, was successfully synthesized and administered to patients across a wide range of malignancies who had a greater than 30% chance of disease recurrence.

Innovative strategies are vital for patients diagnosed with rare cancers, who are frequently at a disadvantage compared with those who have more common malignancies, experts say.

Melissa (Kah Poh) Loh, BMedSci, MBBCh, BAO, discusses the challenges of utilizing geriatric assessment in oncology and steps that the ACCC resources can provide to institutions that want to incorporate geriatric assessment into practice.

The new drug application seeking the approval of a unique formulation of sodium thiosulfate for the prevention of ototoxicity induced by cisplatin chemotherapy in patients aged 1 month to less than 18 years of age with localized, nonmetastatic solid tumors has been resubmitted to the FDA.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to teclistamab for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The FDA has approved the Guardant360 CDx assay as a companion diagnostic for tumor mutation profiling to identify patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor the KRAS G12C mutation and may derive benefit from sotorasib.

Andrew E. Aplin, PhD, has been named Deputy Director for Scientific Strategy of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center – Jefferson Health.

The anti–PD-L1, fully human monoclonal antibody cosibelimab will be examined in a cohort of patients with metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma as part of an ongoing phase 1 study.

The FDA has granted a priority review to the new drug application seeking approval of plinabulin plus granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.

Loncastuximab tesirine-lpyl (Zynlonta) exhibited significant clinical activity, including impressive response rates with tolerable safety, as a single agent in adult patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma that failed prior established therapies.

The FDA has granted priority review to a new drug application for pacritinib as a potential treatment option for patients with myelofibrosis and severe thrombocytopenia, defined as platelet counts less than 50 x 109/L.

Although the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is unprecedented in speed and scope, the process of postapproval surveillance has been shown to be robust and should serve as a source of reassurance to the public regarding the effectiveness of the initial and follow-up review process.

Parissa Tabrizian, MD, MSc, discusses the rationale for evaluating cemiplimab in the neoadjuvant setting for patients with resectable hepatocellular carcinoma, the results of the trial, and next steps planned to identify optimal clinical end points that correlate with survival benefit.

The combination of cabozantinib plus atezolizumab was found to elicit encouraging response rates, disease control, and acceptable safety in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had previously received enzalutamide and/or abiraterone acetate.

The safety and efficacy of the combination of vidutolimod and nivolumab is currently under investigation in patients with PD-1–refractory advanced melanoma.

A significant incidence of advanced neoplasia and colorectal cancer was identified in individuals between the ages of 45 and 49 years, emphasizing the importance of adhering to recent recommendations from the United Services Preventive Services Task Force to lower the CRC screening age from 50 to 45 years.

The FDA has approved infigratinib for the treatment of patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma harboring an FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement.

The FDA has approved sotorasib as the first treatment for adult patients with non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor KRAS G12C mutations and who have received at least 1 prior systemic therapy.

Novel immunotherapy combinations are gaining ground in the frontline treatment of patients with lung cancer, but the toxicities associated with these regimens must be weighed against the benefit they provide.

Artios Pharma, a company devoted to developing precision medicine–based treatments based on DNA damage response mechanisms, is entering into a global research collaboration with Novartis to develop next-generation DDR targets that will synergize with Novartis’ radioligand therapies.

Nataliya V. Uboha, MD, PhD, zeros in on the developments with ADCs and monoclonal antibodies in gastric cancer and recent changes in pancreatic cancer as key takeaways from the event.

Pembrolizumab alone and in combination with chemotherapy was associated with shorter overall survival compared with the data demonstrated in the registrational clinical trials in older Medicare patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer, providing real-world insight into the prognosis of older patients with NSCLC who are treated with immunotherapy.

Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital scientists and clinicians are presenting research studies at the 2021 Annual Virtual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology June 4-8.

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and single-hit TP53 mutations derived long-term responses with ibrutinib monotherapy, whereas patients with multi-hit TP53 aberrations had shortened progression-free survival.

The FDA has approved a 6-month subcutaneous depot formulation of leuprolide mesylate as a ready-to-use treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Daiichi Sankyo Inc. is collaborating with Guardant Health Inc. to develop a companion diagnostic for fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki, which is being studied to treat patients with advanced metastatic HER2-mutated non‒small cell lung cancer.

Kanwal Raghav, MBBS, MD, discusses current sequencing approaches in metastatic colorectal cancer.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the immuno-oncology company TriSalus™ Life Sciences announced a strategic research collaboration to evaluate SD-101 in pancreatic cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma.