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Transplants from a matched sibling donor were superior to haploidentical stem cell transplant in terms of 2-year survival in patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

In the phase 1b EQUATE trial, patients with acute graft-versus-host disease had decreased levels of cell-surface CD6 when treated with itolizumab.

High rates of hematopoietic cell transplantation were observed in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia who received 131-iodine conditioning in the phase 3 SIERRA trial.

Muhammad Rafay Khan Niazi, MD, and Alexander Bershadskiy, MD, spoke with CancerNetwork® about the latest research from the journal ONCOLOGY® on the use of PARP inhibitors as maintenance therapy for certain patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Anetumab ravtansine yielded a manageable safety profile in patients with relapsed mesothelin-positive malignant pleural mesothelioma in the second-line setting, but it did not appear to be superior to vinorelbine.

Tremelimumab’s biologics license application was accepted by the FDA and was given priority review, further supporting the use of a single priming dose of anti-CTLA4 plus durvalumab in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Serious graft-versus-host disease may be prevented with the prolonged use of ruxolitinib after hematopoietic cell transplantation.

A comparison of axicabtagene ciloleucel and tisagenlecleucel for patients with follicular lymphoma yielded comparable outcomes.

Treatment with several CAR T-cell products resulted in notable responses without an increase in cytokine release syndrome or neurotoxicity in large B-cell lymphoma with central nervous system involvement.

At the 2022 Tandem Meetings, Nina Shah, MD, spoke about key findings from the phase 2 KarMMa trial that used idecabtagene vicleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Topical ruxolitinib cream resulted in benefit to patients with cutaneous chronic graft-vs-host based on results of a trial that were presented at the 2022 Tandem Meeting.

The phase 2 KarMMA trial showed that certain characteristics were potentially linked to complete responses in patients with multiple myeloma.

The phase 3 JUPITER-08 trial assessed toripalimab plus chemotherapy, which was granted an orphan drug designation by the FDA, in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

Findings from the phase 2 CARITUDE-2 trial which investigated ciltacabtagene autoleucel in patients with multiple myeloma indicated that a single infusion produced deep responses.

The use of axicabtagene ciloleucel for relapse/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma continued the duration of response during the follow-up of the phase 2 ZUMA-5 trial.

At the 15th Annual Interdisciplinary Prostate Cancer Congress® and Other Genitourinary Malignancies, Peter Humphrey, MD, PhD, spoke about how enrollment for specific trials in renal cell carcinoma may incorporate a patient’s tumor histology.

Patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphomas experienced durable responses to treatment with lisocabtagene maraleucel.

Findings from a phase 1 study indicate that belimumab could be a safe prophylactic option to prevent chronic graft-versus-host disease in adult patients undergoing allogenic transplant.

Findings from a phase 2 clinical trial identified a differentially expressed gene profile in those diagnosed with nonsclerotic and superficially sclerotic chronic graft-vs-host-disease who responded to topical ruxolitinib.

A phase 2 trial reported a reduction in steroid-refractory chronic graft versus host disease and prednisone use following treatment with abatacept after stem cell transplant.

The long-term overall survival rate yielded by axicabtagene ciloleucel appeared to support 1- and 2-year event-free survival as a surrogate end point in relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Patients with high-risk large B-cell lymphoma experienced potent, long-term responses following treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel in the first line.

Patients with KRAS G12C-mutated colorectal cancer treated with sotorasib showed modest anti-tumor activity during a phase 2 trial.

Bevacizumab-maly was approved by the FDA across numerous cancer indications, becoming the third FDA-approved bevacizumab biosimilar.

At the 15th Annual Interdisciplinary Prostate Cancer Congress® and Other Genitourinary Malignancies, Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, spoke about ongoing trials may hold promise for the treatment of patients with bladder cancer.

Patients with estrogen receptor–positive HER2-mutated metastatic breast cancer experienced promising clinical activity following treatment with neratinib and fulvestrant.

A unanimous vote cast by the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Panel highlighted a need for randomized clinical trial data to support FDA approvals of PI3K inhibitors for patients with hematologic malignancies.

Ixazomib did not appear to be an effective replacement for carfilzomib or bortezomib in combination regimens containing the 2 proteosome inhibitors in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

In an interview with CancerNetwork®, Ursula A. Matulonis, MD, discusses the toxicities associated with mirvetuximab soravtansine in folate receptor α–high platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

Frederick Lock, MD, spoke about how future research regarding axicabtagene ciloleucel for patients with large B-cell lymphoma will progress.