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The FDA approved the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for patients of a specific age, at risk jobs, or with serious health conditions.

Patients with relapsed/refractory unresectable or metastatic melanoma may derive benefit from alrizomadlin, which has received a fast track designation from the FDA.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Fredrik Schjesvold, MD, PhD, at the 2021 International Myeloma Workshop to discuss key data that read out from the OCEAN trial for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Results from the phase 3 eXalt3 study indicated that ensartinib led to a longer progression-free survival and intracranial response rate compared with crizotinib for patients with ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer.

CancerNetwork® spoke with Michael Schweizer, MD, at the 2021 ESMO Congress about his research into the combination of olaparib plus bipolar androgen therapy for patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer.

A phase 2 trial did not find a significant benefit to progression-free survival with regorafenib in patients with advanced or metastatic chrodoma.

Patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease who have received prior therapy can now receive treatment with ruxolitinib following its approval by the FDA.

Findings from the PACIFIC-R trial indicated that the real-world progression-free survival benefit of durvalumab was higher vs the median progression-free survival reported in the durvalumab arm of the phase 3 PACIFIC trial in unresectable stage III non–small cell lung cancer.

Results from the phase 3 NINJA trial indicated that chemotherapy agents such as gemcitabine or pegylated liposomal doxorubicin yielded better survival outcomes vs nivolumab among patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

An association was seen between baseline HER2 expression levels and the antitumor activity of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for patients with HER2-positive, metastatic colorectal cancer.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Jason Luke, MD, at the 2021 European Society for Medical Oncology Congress to talk about the latest developments in the use of immunotherapy for metastatic disease.

Adavosertib demonstrated a 65% risk reduction in disease progression and death for patients with TP53-/RAS-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer following first-line chemotherapy.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Lyudmila Bazhenova, MD, at the 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer to talk about immunotherapy response in patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.

Patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) derived overall survival benefit from a combination of durvalumab and chemotherapy.

Consistent Ki67 suppression with giredestrant was noted in a phase 2 trial versus anatrozole.

Patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer receiving sitravatinib plus nivolumab combination had promising objective responses during a post-hoc analysis of a phase 2 trial.

Patient with advanced renal cell carcinoma who were treated with nivolumab and ipilimumab experienced a long-term survival benefit that was superior to sunitinib.

The toxicity profiles of PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors displayed unique characteristics when combines with other agents such as chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy.

According to results from the Blood First Assay Screening Trial, blood-based tumor mutational burden did not predict a benefit of atezolizumab over chemotherapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy compared with the placebo plus chemotherapy demonstrated an improvement in overall survival and progression-free survival for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

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.

Investigators believe the use of biomarkers can determine the results of de-escalated neoadjuvant T-DM1 in HR-positive/HER2-positive early breast cancer.

Topline findings from the phase 2 KRYSTAL-1 study indicated that adagrasib may hold promise in patients with KRAS G12C–mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

Patients with stage II to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer experienced an improvement in disease-free survival and time to locoregional and distant relapse after being treated with adjuvant atezolizumab.

Ficlatuzumab, which received a fast track designation from the FDA, may provide benefit to patients with relapsed or recurrent head and neck cancer.

Treatment with sunitinib resulted in improved efficacy results in the FIRSTMAPPP trial for patients with malignant pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma.

Fredrik Schjesvold, MD, PhD, speaks about the FDA approval of melflufen in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma and its next phase of development at the 2021 International Myeloma Workshop.

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

Data from the Circulating Cell-Free Genome Atlas on Clinical limit of detection, or cLOD, may help investigators better detect multiple cancers at earlier stages.

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