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Findings from the phase 3 LEAP-002 study indicate that the addition of pembrolizumab to lenvatinib did not impact quality-of-life scores among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

An expert from The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center says that a brentuximab vedotin–based combination was well-tolerated in patients with advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma, according to results presented at 2022 ASH.

Lenvatinib yields survival benefit in hepatocellular carcinoma following progression on immunotherapy.

An expert from the Duke University School of Medicine describes how the FDA approval of tucatinib plus trastuzumab in HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer will improve access to treatment.

Patients with previously untreated advanced gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, and esophageal adenocarcinoma continue to benefit from treatment with nivolumab and chemotherapy.

Long-term survival benefit is seen in patients with treatment-naïve advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who were treated with nivolumab plus chemotherapy or ipilimumab.

Investigators report benefit in patients with CLDN18.2-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma treated with first-line zolbetuximab and mFOLFOX6.

HER-Vaxx with standard-of-care chemotherapy yielded benefit in patients with HER2-overexpressing metastatic or advanced gastric/gastroesophaeal junction adenocarcinoma.

Pre-operative tremelimumab plus durvalumab elicited encouraging safety and activity in patients with microsatellite instability–high resectable gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer.

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic leukemia can now receive treatment with zanubrutinib following its approval by the FDA.

The findings, according to a group of researchers, warrant the development of treatments that attack HER2-low advanced gastric cancer.

The FDA based its accelerated approval of tucatinib and trastuzumab combination therapy for HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer on results from the phase 2 MOUNTAINEER trial.

An expert from Natera discusses ctDNA’s predictive and prognostic value in resectable colorectal cancer based on data from the GALAXY cohort of the CIRCULATE-JAPAN platform study.

The FDA has given fast track designation to peptide-based immunotherapy agent EVX-01 in combination with pembrolizumab for metastatic melanoma.

Cisplatin plus veliparib appears to improve progression-free survival among patients with BRCA-like metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, but not in those with non–BRCA-like metastatic breast cancer.

An expert from Rutgers Cancer Institute discusses ongoing research for mosunetuzumab in relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma, as well as the importance of deploying the agent in the community setting.

An expert from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discussed kidney cancer treatment updates from a recent medical conference.

Findings from the phase 3 Neotorch trial indicate that toripalimab plus chemotherapy has met the primary end point of event-free survival among patients with operable non–small cell lung cancer.

Patients who are set to undergo autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant following induction chemotherapy may have poor mobility across several domains vs an age-matched control group.

An expert from Natera describes where future research needs to be focused for circulating tumor DNA testing in patients with colorectal cancer following the CIRCULATE-Japan study.

Findings from the phase 1/2 CA001-030 study indicate that BMS-986012 in combination with nivolumab is well tolerated among patients with small cell lung cancer.

Moxetumomab pasudotox-tdfk, approved as a treatment for relapsed/refractory hairy cell leukemia in 2018, will be withdrawn from the United States market in July 2023.

The FDA grants orphan drug designation to investigational G-quadruplex transcription inhibitor QN-302 for pancreatic cancer.

An expert from Rutgers Cancer Institute indicates that mosunetuzumab may limit unmet needs commonly associated with CAR T-cell therapy such as cost, tolerability, and access.

An expert from Natera shares multidisciplinary takeaways from the GALAXY cohort of the CIRCULATE-Japan study, assessing circulating tumor DNA as a prognostic biomarker for resectable colorectal cancer.

An expert from Natera indicates that post-operative ctDNA level may have strong prognostic and predictive value in patients with resectable colorectal cancer.

LP-284, which now has orphan drug designation from the FDA for mantle cell lymphoma, yielded positive preclinical data at the 2022 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Yancey Warren, Jr, MD, MAT, and Lejla Hadzikadic-Gusic, MD, MSc, spoke with CancerNetwork® about their work investigating the use of integrative oncology services among young patients diagnosed with breast cancer.

Judy C. Boughey, MD, of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota details the efficacy of breast-conserving surgery in patients with multiple ipsilateral breast cancer.

The FDA gave the dual epigenetic modulator JBI-802 an orphan drug designation to treat small cell lung cancer and acute myeloid leukemia.