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Patients with locally advanced or metastatic ESR1-mutant, estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer who have progressed on a CDK4/6 inhibitor may benefit from treatment with lasofoxifene and abemaciclib.

Results from a post-hoc subgroup analysis of the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 study indicated that sacituzumab govitecan improved efficacy outcomes vs physician’s choice of treatment in HER2-low and HER2 immunohistochemistry 0, hormone receptor–positive metastatic breast cancer.

An 8-to-4 vote was cast by the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee against the use of duvelisib in previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic leukemia.

Kim Blenman, PhD, MS, discussed the promising developments in cell-counting software for predicting pathologic complete response in breast cancer.

In an interview, Kami J. Maddocks, MD, details therapies that may shake up the standard of care in lymphoma going forward.

The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted against poziotinib as a treatment for patients with HER2 exon 20 insertion–mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted against continued use of melphalan flufenamide for the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

At 2022 ASCO, Matthew Schabath, PhD, discussed the COLORS training designed to improve cultural sensitivity amongst oncologists treating patients within the LGBTQ+ community.

PARP inhibitors like rucaparib should be considered to treat all kinds of patients, including those who have deleterious mutations and HRD, according to Amit Oza, MD, MBBS, FRCPC.

Chiara Cremolini, MD, PhD, discussed results from the phase 3 TRIPLETE study of triplet chemotherapy plus panitumumab in previously untreated patients with RAS/BRAF wild-type unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer.

The European Commission based its approval of nivolumab/relatlimab for patients with a PD-L1 expression of less than 1% on the results of the phase 2/3 RELATIVITY-047 trial.

One of the CRESTONE investigators, Tejas Patil, MD, assistant professor of medicine–medical oncology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, discussed seribantumab in previously treated patients with NRG1 fusion–positive tumors.

Catherine A. Shu, MD, spoke about the most important findings from the phase 1 CHRYSALIS-2 trial for patients with previously treated EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer who are administered amivantamab plus lazertinib.

PARP inhibitors such as rucaparib appear to garner the most benefit in the early maintenance setting in patients with ovarian cancer who have less advanced disease and less heterogeneity, according to Amit Oza, MD, MBBS, FRCPC.

Doris K. Hansen, MD, discussed results of an efficacy analysis examining the BCMA-directed CAR T-cell therapy idecabtagene vicleucel in real-world treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Olaparib and bevacizumab has been approved in China as a frontline maintenance treatment for patients with advanced homologous recombination deficiency–positive ovarian cancer based on results from the phase 3 PAOLA-1 trial.

Anne Chiang, MD, PhD, discussed results from a pilot study of biomarkers in tumors treated with ipilimumab and nivolumab in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

Abiraterone and olaparib continued to demonstrate a positive trend in overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to Fred Saad, MD, FRCS, though he stated that longer follow-up is needed to confirm the benefit.

Findings from the phase 3 COSMIC-021 trial, comparing the effect of cabozantinib alone or in combination with atezolizumab vs docetaxel for advanced non–small cell lung cancer previously treated with immunotherapy, though promising, highlighted further need for randomized data to confirm the regimen’s benefit in the second-line setting, according to Joel W. Neal, MD, PhD.

Alison M. Schram, MD, spoke about key findings from the phase 2 eNRGy trial assessing zenocutuzumab in patients with NRG1 fusion–positive advanced solid tumors.

Patients with RET fusion–positive locally advanced/metastatic non–small cell lung cancer can now receive treatment with RET inhibitor selpercatinib, which was approved by the FDA.

Patients with RET fusion–positive locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors can now receive treatment with selpercatinib following its approval by the FDA.

In an interview, Kami J. Maddocks, MD, showed her excitement about future use of bispecific antibodies for the treatment of lymphomas.

Tanya Dorff, MD, spoke about how CAR T-cell therapy could be a potential new addition to the prostate cancer treatment paradigm based on data from ongoing studies.

Frequent targetable mutations in patients with extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia lends credence to the use of next-generation sequencing to determine the optimal targeted therapy approach.

Patients with pancreatic cancer may benefit from treatment with ATG-101, which was granted orphan drug designation by the FDA.

Charu Aggarwal, MD, MPH, discussed findings from a study of the replication-deficient adenovirus CAN-2409 in advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Sodium thiosulfate, which appears to be effective in decreasing the risk for hearing loss related to treatment with cisplatin, received FDA approval in pediatric patients with localized, non-metastatic solid tumors.

The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to second-line GNS561 following the completion of a phase 1/2a trial evaluating the novel PPT1 inhibitor in liver cancer and cholangiocarcinoma.

Authors Dori Beeler, PhD; Shelley Wang, MD, MPH; and Viraj A. Master, MD, PhD, spoke with CancerNetwork® about a review article on cancer-related fatigue published in the journal ONCOLOGY®.