Vice President of Content, OncLive and Cancer Network
Gina Mauro is your lead editorial contact for OncLive. She joined the company in 2015 and has held various positions on OncLive; she is also the on-air correspondent for OncLive News Network: On Location. Prior to joining MJH Life Sciences, she worked at Gannett as a full-time reporter with the Asbury Park Press. Email: gmauro@onclive.com
Pacritinib Shows Manageable Safety Profile in Cytopenic Myelofibrosis, Severe Thrombocytopenia
December 14th 2021Treatment with pacritinib, when administered at 200 mg twice daily, had a comparable safety profile to best available therapy in patients with cytopenic myelofibrosis, including those with severe thrombocytopenia.
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Luspatercept Shows Impressive Responses, Tolerability in Low-Risk MDS
December 14th 2021Luspatercept-aamt produced more durable responses compared with placebo in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome and anemia that is refractory to or ineligible for erythropoiesis-stimulating agent therapy.
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Axi-Cel Demonstrates 60% EFS Improvement in Second-Line Relapsed/Refractory LBCL
December 13th 2021Axicabtagene ciloleucel led to a 60% improvement in event-free survival compared with standard-of-care chemotherapy as second-line treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.
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Active Disease, ICU Deferral Linked With COVID-19–Related Mortality in AML, ALL, and MDS
December 12th 2021Mortality rates in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and myelodysplastic syndrome who were diagnosed with COVID-19 were higher compared with non-cancer populations who were infected with the virus.
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Orca-T Shows Impressive Clinical Outcomes in High-Risk Hematological Cancers
December 11th 2021Orca-T significantly improved graft-vs-host disease–free relapse-free survival and time to engraftment, significantly reduced acute and chronic GVHD, and showed a trend toward improved overall survival vs standard of care in patients with serious hematologic malignancies
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ASH 2021 Is Packed With Practice-Changing Hematologic Cancer Data
December 9th 2021Not only is the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting bursting with more than 5000 abstracts unveiling pivotal data across a range of hematologic malignancies and disorders, but the conference will be held as a hybrid format after going fully virtual in 2020.
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Entinostat/Exemestane Improves PFS in Chinese Patients With Advanced HR+ Breast Cancer
December 7th 2021The combination of entinostat and exemestane led to a significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with placebo and exemestane in Chinese patients with advanced hormone receptor–positive breast cancer.
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Elacestrant Significantly Improves PFS in Advanced ER+ Breast Cancer, Including ESR1-Mutant Subtype
December 7th 2021The selective estrogen receptor degrader elacestrant (RAD1901) led to a 30% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with standard of care in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer who previously received CDK4/6 inhibition.
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FDA Extends Review Period for Pacritinib in Myelofibrosis With Severe Thrombocytopenia
November 30th 2021The FDA has extended the review period for the new drug application for pacritinib as a treatment for adult patients with intermediate- or high-risk primary or secondary (post-polycythemia vera or post-essential thrombocythemia) myelofibrosis and severe thrombocytopenia with a baseline platelet count of 50 x 109/L.
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FDA Schedules ODAC Meeting for Ublituximab/Umbralisib Combo in CLL/SLL
November 30th 2021The FDA has scheduled a meeting of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) to review the pending biologics license application/supplemental new drug application for the combination of ublituximab and umbralisib (Ukoniq; U2) for the treatment of adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma.
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European Commission Approves Pembrolizumab/Lenvatinib for Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer
November 29th 2021The European Commission has granted an approval to the combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib for the treatment of patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma who have disease progression on or following prior platinum-containing therapy in any setting and who are not eligible for curative surgery or radiation.
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Liso-Cel/Ibrutinib Combo Improves Efficacy in Relapsed/Refractory CLL
November 16th 2021Concurrent treatment with ibrutinib in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia who were receiving lisocabtagene maraleucel led to measurable effects in both CAR+ and endogenous T cells, both of which were linked with improved efficacy.
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Prospective Biomarkers of Pembrolizumab Combo Response Show Feasibility in Frontline Advanced NSCLC
November 15th 2021T-cell inflamed gene expression profile and tumor mutational burden assessment was found to be a feasible approach to study the clinical activity of 3 pembrolizumab-based combination regimens in treatment-naïve patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.
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Immunotherapy/Chemo Combos Remain Go-To Option in Growing Small Cell Lung Cancer Paradigm
November 6th 2021Chemoimmunotherapy is the new frontline standard of care for patients with small cell lung cancer, and other novel agents, such as, bispecific T-cell engagers are in the pipeline and gaining momentum for those who experience disease progression.
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Checkpoint Blockade Moves Needle in Molecularly Driven Endometrial Cancer Paradigm
November 4th 2021The management of endometrial cancer, a molecularly driven malignancy with 4 distinct subtypes, has witnessed significant progress with recent regulatory approvals of checkpoint blockade alone and in combination, said Bhavana Pothuri, MD, MS.
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MRD Continues to Show Prognostic Potential in AML and Shape Treatment Decisions
November 3rd 2021Newer modalities are exploring ways to provide more specificity on the value of minimal residual disease negativity in acute myeloid leukemia, since currently there is little definitive action that can be taken with the marker in clinical practice, according to Naval Daver, MD.
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Fixed-Dose Eniluracil Under Investigation in Advanced Refractory Gastrointestinal Cancers
September 23rd 2021Fixed-dose eniluracil is being evaluated with escalating doses of capecitabine in patients with advanced, refractory gastrointestinal cancers, or in advanced GI cancers who are intolerant to fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy, as part of an open-label, phase 1b dose-escalation trial.
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Adavosertib Improves PFS in RAS-/TP53-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
September 21st 2021Adavosertib demonstrated a 65% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with active monitoring in patients with TP53-/RAS-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer following first-line chemotherapy.
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Adjuvant treatment with atezolizumab led to an improvement in disease-free survival and time to locoregional and distant relapse compared with best supportive care in prespecified subgroups of PD-L1–positive patients with stage II to IIIA NSCLC, according to exploratory findings from the phase 3 IMpower010 trial.
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