All Oncology News

Mollie Meek, MD, highlights key lung cancer screening trials, offered insight into how to successfully implement an effective program, and stressed that collaboration is critical in order to provide the best patient care.

Richard S. Finn, MD, discusses results from the KEYNOTE-240 trial and explained how they are still clinically meaningful for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

The FDA has approved PF-05280586, a biosimilar for rituximab, for the treatment of adult patients with CD20-positive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma as a single agent or in combination with chemotherapy, or for patients with CD20-positive chronic lymphocytic leukemia in combination with chemotherapy.

David Polsky, MD, PhD, discusses findings from an analysis in patients with BRAF-mutant, unresectable, metastatic melanoma, as well as the next steps for validating these findings and potentially using circulating tumor DNA to help inform treatment decisions.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to the combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma that is not amenable to locoregional therapy.

Stephen V. Liu, MD, discusses the impact of immunotherapy in the first-, second-, and third-line settings of small cell lung cancer, as well as novel agents and targets on the horizon.

The FDA has updated the label for durvalumab for patients with unresectable, stage III non–small cell lung cancer whose disease has not progressed following concurrent platinum-based chemoradiation to include overall survival data from the phase III PACIFIC trial.

David F. McDermott, MD, provides insight on pembrolizumab in non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and the next steps for research in the overall RCC paradigm.

Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD, discusses the available treatment modalities for patients with platinum-sensitive and -resistant recurrent ovarian cancer.

Michel Velez, MD, provides perspective on the clinical experience with neratinib in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer as well as promising data that may lead to an indication in the metastatic setting.

Yuqin Song, MD, PhD, discusses the clinical activity with zanubrutinib in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

Keerthi Gogineni, MD, MSHP, discusses several trials in the breast cancer field, specifically looking at de-escalation therapies.

Claud M. Grigg Jr, MD, highlights data from pivotal trials with combinations in both clear cell and non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma, as well as challenges with identifying biomarkers for immunotherapy.

Jubilee Brown, MD, discusses the importance of molecular testing immediately after an ovarian cancer diagnosis and how molecular testing will shape the field of ovarian cancer.

The combination of regorafenib and nivolumab will be compared with regorafenib alone in a phase III trial of patients with microsatellite stable colorectal cancer, following encouraging phase Ib findings of the REGONIVO study.

Monocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells increased with ibrutinib treatment in a preclinical model of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, suggesting a role for ITK inhibition in this cell population.

Brian Van Tine, MD, highlights the latest developments in soft tissue sarcoma, including data from key trials and further research being conducted in the rare tumor field.

Matthew Powell, MD, discusses the trials that are generating excitement for combination immunotherapy as well as the impact of PARP inhibitors in the treatment of patients with ovarian cancer.

Rory McCulloch, MD, discusses the results of a retrospective analysis looking at rituximab, bendamustine, and cytarabine in patients with mantle cell lymphoma who have relapsed on a BTK inhibitor.

Health Canada has approved neratinib (Nerlynx) for the extended adjuvant treatment of patients with early-stage, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-overexpressed/amplified breast cancer within 1 year after completing trastuzumab (Herceptin)-based adjuvant therapy.

Thomas Herzog, MD, discusses recent changes in the ovarian cancer landscape, specifically PARP inhibitors and the optimal use of bevacizumab.

Michael Wang, MD, provides insight on recent advances in mantle cell lymphoma as well as research efforts for patients with a high risk of relapse.

Jessica Jiyeong Lin, MD, discusses rare oncogenic drivers and elaborates on the updated efficacy analyses that were presented at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting.

R. Wendel Naumann, MD, discusses the criteria for primary debulking versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

A biologics license application has been submitted to the FDA for enfortumab vedotin for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who have previously received a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor and who have received a platinum-containing chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant/adjuvant, locally advanced, or metastatic setting.

Lecia V. Sequist, MD, MPH, highlights recent developments in NSCLC treatment and shared key questions that still need to be addressed.

Brian T. Hill, MD, PhD, highlights the latest data with BTK inhibitors in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Alice T. Shaw, MD, PhD, provides an overlay of current treatment strategies in ALK-positive NSCLC and highlights research on the horizon.

Alain Borczuk, MD, discusses the recent advancements in lung cancer treatment, the evolving field, and the future potential for liquid biopsies.

Niraparib as a maintenance treatment demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with placebo in patients with ovarian cancer following first-line platinum-based chemotherapy, regardless of biomarker status, meeting the primary endpoint of the phase III PRIMA (ENGOT-OV26/GOG-3012) trial.