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Radical proctectomy, external beam radiotherapy, and brachytherapy yielded comparable prostate cancer–specific mortality, while external beam radiotherapy with or without brachytherapy resulted in favorable distant metastases outcomes in patients with high-risk prostate cancer.

Results from cohort K of the phase 1b/2 KEYNOTE-869 trial showed improved responses for patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma when treated with enfortumab vedotin-efjv plus pembrolizumab.

A health-related quality of life survey found similar outcomes between those treated with pembrolizumab plus axitinib vs sunitinib in advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Kira MacDougall, MD, and Muhammad Rafay Khan Niazi, MD, spoke with CancerNetwork® about their research into the significance of peripheral blood biomarkers of response to immunotherapy in non–small cell lung cancer published in the journal ONCOLOGY®.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, FASCO, gave an overview of ribociclib plus aromatase inhibitor use vs abemaciclib plus aromatase inhibitors for patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Findings from the phase 1/2 FAKTION trial indicated that survival had increased following the addition of capivasertib to fulvestrant for patients with aromatase inhibitor–resistant, estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan was granted priority review by the FDA for patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic HER2-low breast cancer.

Patients with mismatch repair deficient and/or microsatellite instability–high locally advanced colorectal cancer appear to derive promising benefit from treatment with neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Tony S. Mok, MD, spoke about utilizing adjuvant or neoadjuvant treatment for patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Patients in Europe who have multiple myeloma and have received at least 1 previous therapy can now receive treatment with selinexor plus bortezomib and low-dose dexamethasone following its full marketing authorization by the European Commission.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, FASCO, reviewed data from a matching-adjusted indirect comparison study which analyzed quality of life in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer treated with ribociclib- or abemaciclib-based regimens.

A panel of oncologists reviews a publication by Robert J. Motzer, MD, and colleagues on data from the CLEAR trial examining lenvatinib plus either pembrolizumab or everolimus for advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Roger Li, MD, spoke about future trials planned for the combination of CG0070 plus pembrolizumab for patients with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer who were unresponsive to bacillus Calmette-Guerin.

The needle might be further pushed forward for precision medicine through exploration of novel proteins such as CDC37 and MAOB in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Investigators recommended that ddPCR testing and immunohistochemical staining be used to detect POLE status and p53/mismatch repair status, respectively, and allow for more rapid classification and risk-stratification.

The phase 3 KEYNOTE-412 trial assessing pembrolizumab and consolidation chemoradiotherapy plus maintenance pembrolizumab in unresected locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma missed its primary end point of event-free survival improvement vs matched placebo.

The primary end points of progression-free survival and overall survival were not met in the phase 3 OVAL trial assessing ofranergene obadenovec for patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

Kim A. Reiss Binder, MD, spoke about the use of niraparib plus either nivolumab or ipilimumab for patients with platinum-sensitive advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Patients with solid tumors undergoing treatments with chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or chemoimmunotherapy mounted an adequate antibody response to the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine.

Results from a phase 1/2 trial highlighted improved clinical outcomes for patients receiving eltanexor monotherapy for relapsed/refractory myelodysplastic syndrome.

Dexamethasone, Cisplatin, gemcitabine, and pegaspargase resulted in improved preliminary outcomes vs dexamethasone, methotrexate, ifosfamide, L-asparaginase, and etoposide for patients with newly diagnosed locally advanced stage III or IV extranodal natural killer/ T-cell lymphoma.

Although European Leukemia Net 2017 Risk Stratification was ineffective for predicting outcomes following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in intermediate-risk acute myeloid leukemia, pre-transplant Wilms tumor gene 1 expression and FLT3-ITD mutation demonstrated promising predictive ability.

WU-CART-007 was granted fast track and rare pediatric disease designation by the FDA for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma.

Post-marketing surveillance data further confirmed carfilzomib to be a well-tolerated and promising option among patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, although investigators emphasize the importance of watching for cardiac comorbidities.

Investigators reported a reduction in racial and ethnic disparities among patients with de novo stage IV breast cancer following implementation of Medicaid expansion, and included a decreased risk of death for patients in a racial/ethnic minority compared with White patients.

European patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer are now able to receive treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan following 1 or more previous anti-HER2 regimens.

Patients with pancreatic and extrapancreatic neuroendocrine tumors treated with atezolizumab plus bevacizumab experienced consistent clinical responses and a progression-free survival consistent with other therapies.

Patients with ERBB2-positive esophagogastric adenocarcinoma appeared to experience improved efficacy following treatment with a combination of trastuzumab and nivolumab plus leucovorin, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin vs historical data.

Biosignatures data from the PRINCE trial show sophisticated precision approaches may be necessary to optimize chemoimmunotherapy use in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

MAOB and CDC37 gene expression appear to be 2 new promising targets in advanced colorectal cancer, according to Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD.