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At the Miami Breast Cancer Conference, Debu Tripathy, MD, reviewed adaptive therapy for the adjuvant treatment of patients with HER2-positive, early-stage breast cancer.

Data focusing on patients seeking breast surgical procedures determined that broad skill sets are valuable for general surgeons practicing in rural areas, as breast surgeries only represented a small proportion of total surgical procedures conducted.

The addition of neratinib to capecitabine improved progression-free survival and central nervous system outcomes in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer with central nervous system disease.

More patients with early-stage estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer with high recurrence scores received chemotherapy following radiation in a single-institution study, and this resulted in a low recurrence rate across all patients examined.

The analysis of the KEYNOTE-119 study presented at the Miami Breast Cancer Conference, hosted by Physicians’ Education Resource®, LLC®, found trends estimating a significant role for tumor cell expression in PD-L1 as a predictive biomarker for pembrolizumab efficacy.

The medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center highlighted what clinicians treating patients with advanced ccRCC should understand about this trial in progress.

“The importance of diverse representation cannot be underscored enough and is critical to ensure that safe and effective products are available to the [United States] patient population,” wrote the study authors, who were led by Nicole Gormley, MD.

A new drug application for pafolacianine sodium injection was granted priority review by the FDA for use in detecting ovarian cancer lesions during surgical procedures.

The GREEN trial analyzed treatment with obinutuzumab monotherapy or obinutuzumab plus chemotherapy for patients with previously untreated or relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The combination of liposomal doxorubicin, docetaxel, and trastuzumab with metformin produced positive activity and an acceptable safety profile as neoadjuvant treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer.

The agency approved the supplemental new drug application to include the first-line treatment of adult patients with metastatic anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive non-small cell lung cancer.

In this study, investigators sough to determine the incidence of CRLF2 rearrangements and IKZF1 deletions in Hispanic versus non-Hispanic children with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Amgen announced data from a phase 3 study that found blinatumomab showed prolonged event-free survival compared to consolidation chemotherapy in patients with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Given the current study findings, investigators suggested intratherapy personalization of chemoradiotherapy may possibly facilitate marked de-escalation of radiotherapy in patients with HPV-related oropharyngeal cancers.

In a phase 2 study, adavosertib plus gemcitabine showed signs of activity in platinum-resistant or platinum-refractory advanced high-grade serous ovarian cancer, including rare histological subtypes of ovarian cancer.

The expert from SUNY Downstate Medical Center highlighted areas in which he believes treatment for renal cell carcinoma will advance.

CancerNetwork® was joined by 2 clinicians from Moffitt Cancer Center to discuss why some patients do not respond to CAR T-cell therapy, despite the significant promise of the treatment modality.

“Our results support further study of serial molecular imaging along with combined [histone deacetylase inhibitors; HDACi] and [aromatase inhibitor; AI] therapy (such as ECOG-ACRIN study E2112), to further delineate the role of HDACi and potential biomarkers in AI-refractory ER+ advanced breast cancer,” wrote the study authors.

“The [phase 1b/2] data [are] promising and support the current phase 3, multicenter trial, which we hope will lead to FDA approval and a new much-needed treatment option for this patient population,” said David Sallman, MD.

Merck, the manufacturer of pembrolizumab, announced that it would be withdrawing the agent’s indication for the treatment of patients with previously treated SCLC.

Schilsky joined CancerNetwork®’s podcast to discuss ASCO’s Advance of the Year, the top priorities moving forward, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

An analysis revealed that as a third- or fourth-line treatment for advanced renal cell carcinoma, tivozanib significantly increased Q-TWiST compared with sorafenib, primarily through an increase in TWiST.

The developers of an oral formulation of paclitaxel will have to revisit efficacy and safety data in order to provide sufficient evidence for FDA approval.

Data published in The Lancet found that the PD-L1 inhibitor cemiplimab improved overall and progression-free survival for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer with PD-L1 of at least 50%.

Based on phase 2 data, the FDA granted accelerated approval to melphalan flufenamide in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of multiple myeloma following 4 or more prior lines of therapy.

“Emerging evidence supports a possible role for overall dietary patterns that, in totality, emphasize habitually consuming fruits, vegetables, grains, and low-fat dairy and reducing red meat and alcohol intake,” wrote the study authors.

The medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center discussed the significance of the phase 3 CheckMate 9ER study results.

Data from the Journal of the American College of Surgeons suggest patients 70 years or older with esophageal or esophagogastric junction cancers should be evaluated for optimal curative therapy.

The first single shot COVID-19 vaccine, and the third overall, to receive Emergency Use Authorization will start shipping to all parts of the United States immediately following a meeting of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.

A study published in JAMA Oncology found that, of 6 tested systemic treatment options, abiraterone acetate and apalutamide were the likeliest to improve overall survival when combined with ADT for patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.