Cervical Cancer

Patients with recurrent cervical cancer appeared to achieve a promising survival benefit following treatment with cemiplimab.

Pembrolizumab for patients with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer who received chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab had longer progression-free and overall survival vs placebo-treated patients.

In recognition of World Cancer Day, CancerNetwork® spotlights NCCN efforts to reduce disparities in cervical cancer.

In a regulatory update on cemiplimab for advanced cervical cancer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced that the agent’s biologics license application has been withdrawn.

Findings from a phase 2 study demonstrated encouraging clinical activity and a manageable safety profile when patients with advanced cervical cancer were treated with second-line balstilimab and zalifrelimab.

Cervical cancer incidence rates were significantly higher in the lowest-socioeconomic status neighborhoods vs the highest-socioeconomic status neighborhoods in New York City.

Patients with melanoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and cervical cancer who had not previously received immunotherapy and were treated with lifileucel plus pembrolizumab experienced promising overall response rates compared favorably with historical data on pembrolizumab monotherapy.

In this edition of Clinical Quandaries Eder A. Arango Bravo, MD, and colleagues present a 63 year old woman who has cervical cancer with kidney failure and additional comorbidities.

Those immunized between the ages of 12 and 13 in England experienced a significant estimated reduction in cervical cancer and grade 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia incidence rates compared with unvaccinated women.

Patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer treated with cemiplimab experienced an improved overall survival, progression-free survival, and overall response rate, leading to priority review from the FDA.

Tisotumab vedotin may now be used to treat patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer after the FDA's decision to grant the agent an accelerated approval.

Results of a single-arm study indicate that patients with previously treated metastatic cervical cancer may derive benefit from treatment with balstilimab plus zalifrelimab.

Examination of tisotumab vedotin plus key standard-of-care therapeutics shows promise for the treatment of cervical cancer in the frontline setting and beyond.

Patients with cervical cancer receiving pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab in the frontline setting had improvement in overall survival, potentially representing a new standard of care regimen.

The World Health Organization has published new recommendations to aid in the global prevention of cervical cancer through more accessible screenings and treatments.

Merck’s press release announced positive data from the KEYNOTE-826 trial investigating pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab for patients with cervical cancer.

The anti–PD-1 antibody is being assessed as therapy for patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer after positive results indicate improved responses with the monotherapy.

Awaited outcomes of the phase 3 OUTBACK trial presented at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting do not indicate benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with cervical cancer.

Based on results of the phase 2 innovaTV 204 trial, the FDA granted priority review to tisotumab vedotin as a potential therapy for patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer with disease progression on or after chemotherapy.

Although responses were limited in patients with paclitaxel-pretreated cervical cancer, eribulin may still show promise in those who are naïve to treatment with the chemotherapy agent.

Promising overall survival results lead to an early stop to a phase 3 trial of cemiplimab versus chemotherapy in relapsed/refractory cervical cancer, according to the drug’s developer.

These phase 3 study results support the use of sequential chemoradiation as a preferred adjuvant treatment following radical hysterectomy for patients with early-stage cervical cancer.

Seagen and Genmab hope to receive accelerated approval from the FDA for tisotumab vedotin monotherapy as treatment for patients with cervical cancer in the recurrent or metastatic setting.

“This study for the first time systematically examined the risks of injuries during the cervical diagnostic workup,” said corresponding author Qing Shen, PhD.

Following the new ASCCP-led national consensus guidelines for managing abnormal cervical cancer screening tests, these new guidelines estimate risk based on an individual’s risk factors, thus allowing for more personalized care management.