All Oncology News

In a final overall survival analysis of the J-ALEX study, patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving alectinib failed to achieve better results than patients receiving crizotinib.

Tucatinib plus trastuzumab and capecitabine maintained and even improved overall survival over placebo in pretreated patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Treatment with selpercatinib demonstrated consistent efficacy in patients with RET fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer, regardless of prior treatments.

TG-1701 demonstrated encouraging clinical and pharmacodynamic activity at all dose levels in patients with B-cell malignancies.

The highly selective, central nervous system-active TRK inhibitor larotrectinib yielded promising response rates in patients with TRK fusion cancer, including in those with CNS metastases at baseline.

Pralsetinib demonstrated robust and durable anti-tumor activity, as well as a tolerable safety profile, in heavily pretreated patients with multiple RET fusion–positive advanced solid tumors.

Niraparib, when delivered at an individualized starting dose, was found to be well tolerated in patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer.

Two cases of cytokine release syndrome occurred during the first cycle of step-up dosing; however, both were considered non-severe and were treated without the need of tocilizumab, admission to the ICU or use of vasopressors.

Single-agent ibrutinib given in the first-line setting sustained a progression-free survival and overall survival benefit compared with chlorambucil as therapy for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia at 7-year follow-up.

Zenocutuzumab represents a promising novel targeted therapeutic option for patients with NRG1 fusion–positive cancers.

Treatment with aumolertinib was associated with prolonged survival and duration of response in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with a novel combination of polatuzumab vetodin, rituximab and lenalidomide contributed to an improved overall response and complete response, with 82% remaining in remission at the study’s cutoff date.

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation was safe when used with a reduced-intensity conditioning regimen of bortezomib, fludarabine, and melphalan in patients with high-risk multiple myeloma.

Sotorasib provided continued durable clinical benefit in patients with pretreated KRAS p.G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

A single infusion of brexucabtagene autoleucel, a CAR T-cell therapy, demonstrated robust and durable responses in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Amivantamab in combination with lazertinib elicited responses in more than one-third of chemotherapy-naïve patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer who had progressed on osimertinib.

The addition of lifileucel to pembrolizumab resulted in an overall response rate of 85.7% compared with pembrolizumab alone in patients with immune checkpoint inhibitor–naïve advanced melanoma.

Encouraging initial durability has been observed with afamitresgene autoleucel in patients with advanced synovial sarcoma or myxoid/round cell liposarcoma, according to data from the phase 2 SPEARHEAD-1 trial.

Patritumab deruxtecan was found to induce clinically meaningful, durable efficacy in heavily pretreated patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer who were resistant to EGFR TKIs.

Catequentinib improved disease control and progression-free survival in patients with advanced synovial sarcoma compared with dacarbazine.

The efficacy demonstrated with combination of ponatinib and blinatumomab represent a potentially promising chemotherapy-free, hematopoietic stem cell transplant–sparing treatment for patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positive acute lymphocytic leukemia.

The investigational SHP2 inhibitor TNO155 demonstrated encouraging safety and tolerability, and consistent evidence of SHP2 inhibition in patients with advanced solid tumors.

Evidence of tucatinib and its predominant metabolite, ONT-993, were detectable in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with leptomeningeal metastasis HER2+ positive breast cancer marking a first for tucatinib distribution into the CSF seen in this patient population.

Nivolumab and ipilimumab plus 2 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy demonstrated durable survival benefit vs chemotherapy alone in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

CLN-081 demonstrated promising preliminary antitumor activity and an acceptable safety profile across all doses tested in patients with previously treated non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.

Tivozanib led to a more than doubled median duration of response compared with sorafenib in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Avelumab as frontline maintenance plus best supportive care demonstrated a survival benefit compared with BSC alone across several previously unreported subgroups of patients with advanced urothelial cancer who have progressed on first-line platinum-containing chemotherapy.

Data from an updated analysis of the phase 3 PACIFIC trial indicate that treatment with durvalumab after chemoradiotherapy is associated with long-term survival improvements in patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab continued to provide a durable, long-term overall survival benefit compared with chemotherapy after 4 years for patients with advanced non‒small cell lung cancer regardless of PD-L1 expression or histology.

Cirmtuzumab and ibrutinib led to reported high overall response rates in patients with mantle cell lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.