October 26th 2024
FDA accepts rivoceranib/camrelizumab NDA for review in HCC, acalabrutinib triplet yields responses in untreated mantle cell lymphoma, and more from OncLive this week.
October 15th 2024
26th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress®
July 25-26, 2025
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Applying New Evidence in Multiple Myeloma Care from Frontline to R/R Disease
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42nd Annual CFS: Innovative Cancer Therapy for Tomorrow®
November 13-15, 2024
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PER LIVER CANCER TUMOR BOARD: How Do Evolving Data for Immune-Based Strategies in Resectable and Unresectable ...
November 16, 2024
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Medical Crossfire®: How Do Clinicians Integrate the Latest Evidence in Treating Ovarian Cancer to Personalize Care?
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Medical Crossfire®: How Does Recent Evidence on PARP Inhibitors and Combinations Inform Treatment Planning for Prostate Cancer Now and In the Future?
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Community Practice Connections™: 5th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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Community Practice Connections™: Optimize the Diagnosis and Treatment of HER2-Positive Colorectal Cancer
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Community Oncology Connections™: Controversies and Conversations About HER2-Expressing Breast Cancer… Advances in Management from HER2-Low to Positive Disease
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Annual Hematology Meeting: Preceding the 66th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition
December 6, 2024
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How CEACAM5 Expression Can Be Measured and Leveraged in NSCLC Care: Current Developments & Future Therapeutic Opportunities
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Medical Crossfire®: Where Are We in the World of ADCs? From HER2 to CEACAM5, TROP2, HER3, CDH6, B7H3, c-MET and Beyond!
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Community Oncology Connections™: Overcoming Barriers to Testing, Trial Access, and Equitable Care in Cancer
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Translating New Evidence into Treatment Algorithms from Frontline to R/R Multiple Myeloma: How the Experts Think & Treat
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Medical Crossfire: How Has Iron Supplementation Altered Treatment Planning for Patients with Cancer-Related Anemia?
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22nd Annual Winter Lung Cancer Conference®
January 31, 2025 - February 2, 2025
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Dialogues With the Surgeon on Integration of Systemic Therapies in Perioperative Settings for NSCLC: Looking at EGFR, ALK, IO, and Beyond…
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The Next Wave in Biliary Tract Cancers: Leveraging Immunogenicity to Optimize Patient Outcomes in an Evolving Treatment Landscape
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42nd Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference®
March 6 - 9, 2025
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The Evolving Tool Box in Advanced HR+/HER2– Breast Cancer: What You Need to Know About Next-Generation SERDs, PI3K/AKT, ADCs, CDK4/6 and Beyond…
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Medical Crossfire®: The Experts Bridge Recent Data in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia With Real-World Sequencing Questions
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18th Annual New York GU Cancers Congress™
March 28-29, 2025
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Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy Advances Into Melanoma
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Community Practice Connections™: Pre-Conference Workshop on Immune Cell-Based Therapy
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Coffee Talk™: Navigating the Impact of HER2/3, TROP2, and PARP from Early Stage to Advanced Breast Cancer Care
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Community Practice Connections™: 9th Annual School of Gastrointestinal Oncology®
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BURST CME™: Illuminating the Crossroads of Precision Medicine and Targeted Treatment Options in Metastatic CRC
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Fighting Disparities and Saving Lives: An Exploration of Challenges and Solutions in Cancer Care
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Community Practice Connections™: 14th Asia-Pacific Primary Liver Cancer Expert Meeting
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BURST Expert Illustrations and Commentaries™: Exploring the Mechanistic Rationale for CSF-1R– Directed Treatment in Chronic GVHD
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Tislelizumab/Chemo Combo Takes Step Toward Chinese Approval for Unresectable ESCC
The China National Medical Products Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation has accepted for review a supplemental biologics application seeking the approval of tislelizumab plus chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable, locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
Durvalumab Plus Tremelimumab Elicits Favorable PFS Rates in Advanced Sarcomas
August 23rd 2022The combination of durvalumab and tremelimumab demonstrated positive progression-free survival and overall survival rates with expected toxicity data in patients with advanced or metastatic soft tissue and bone sarcomas.
Perioperative Immunotherapy Demonstrates Promising pCR Rates in dMMR/MSI-H Gastric and GEJ Cancer
August 22nd 2022Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus ipilimumab followed by adjuvant nivolumab elicited positive pathologic complete response rates in patients with locally advanced resectable mismatch repair–deficient and/or microsatellite instability–high gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
Immunotherapy Combinations Launch Into Earlier Lines and Signal Success in Metastatic Solid Tumors
August 17th 2022Successful, established immunotherapies that have been approved for use in the metastatic setting are rapidly moving forward into the adjuvant and neoadjuvant settings, and novel agents are emerging in later lines.
Nivolumab/Ipilimumab Combo Provides Long-Term Survival Benefit in Advanced HCC After Sorafenib
The dual immunotherapy combination comprised of nivolumab given at 1 mg/kg and ipilimumab given at 3 mg/kg provided durable responses and long-term survival benefit in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma following treatment with sorafenib.
The FDA has expanded its approval of the VENTANA MMR RxDx panel to identify patients with mismatch repair–deficient solid tumors and as a companion diagnostic assay to determine eligibility for pembrolizumab as a treatment for patients with mismatch repair–proficient endometrial cancer.
Frontline Tislelizumab Proves Noninferior to Sorafenib for OS in Unresectable HCC
First-line treatment with tislelizumab was found to result in a noninferior overall survival benefit to that achieved with sorafenib in adult patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 RATIONALE 301 trial.
Pembrolizumab/Lenvatinib Combo Misses Survival End Points in Unresectable HCC
The addition of pembrolizumab to lenvatinib did not significantly improve overall survival or progression-free survival over lenvatinib alone when used in the frontline treatment of patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma, missing the dual primary end points of the phase 3 LEAP-002 trial.
Subcutaneous Atezolizumab Produces Noninferior Pharmacokinetics Vs IV Atezolizumab in NSCLC
The subcutaneous administration of atezolizumab produced non-inferior levels of the agent in the blood compared with intravenous atezolizumab in immunotherapy-naïve patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who failed platinum-based chemotherapy.
Novel Biomarker Testing Could Enhance Immunotherapy Treatment Decisions in NSCLC
PD-L1 and tumor mutational burden are established biomarkers for leveraging immunotherapy in non–small cell lung cancer; however, their use may not be appropriate in determining treatment decisions for all patients.
The addition of pembrolizumab to belantamab mafodotin resulted in a higher overall response rate in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma than what has been observed with the antibody-drug conjugate alone, according to results from the phase 1/2 DREAMM-4 trial.
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors at ASCO: Long-term Efficacy Data Mount
July 25th 2022Twelve years after key research into immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy first made a splash at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, evidence continues to mount that supports the durability of these agents in a range of cancers.
Relatlimab Plus Nivolumab Approaches EU Approval for Advanced Melanoma With PD-L1 of <1%
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of the fixed-dose combination of nivolumab and relatlimab for the frontline treatment of adult and adolescents who are 12 years of age or older with advanced melanoma and a tumor cell PD-L1 expression of less than 1%.
Pembrolizumab Plus Chemoradiation Misses EFS End Point in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
July 20th 2022Pembrolizumab plus concurrent chemoradiation followed by pembrolizumab maintenance did not lead to a statistically significant improvement in event-free survival vs concurrent chemoradiation alone in patients with unresected locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
FDA Defers Action on BLA for Tislelizumab in Second-Line Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
The FDA has deferred action on the biologics license application seeking the approval of tislelizumab as a second-line treatment in patients with unresectable or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, citing the inability to conduct required inspections in China because of travel restrictions associated with COVID-19.
Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab Displays Durable Benefit in MSI-H/dMMR mCRC
July 8th 2022Nivolumab alone or in combination with ipilimumab continued to demonstrate sustained clinical benefit as second- and first-line therapy, respectively, in patients with microsatellite instability–high and mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer.
Dostarlimab Produces Durable Responses With Acceptable Safety in dMMR Solid Tumors
Thierry André, MD, discusses the results of the phase 1 GARNET study with dostarlimab and the significance of these findings for patients with mismatch repair–deficient/microsatellite instqability–high solid tumors.
Durvalumab Plus Chemotherapy Improves pCR in Resectable NSCLC
June 30th 2022Neoadjuvant treatment with durvalumab plus platinum-based chemotherapy led to a statistically significant improvement in pathologic complete response and major pathologic response compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer, according to findings from a planned interim analysis of the phase 3 AEGEAN trial.
Botensilimab/Balstilimab Combo Produces Deep Responses in Microsatellite Stable CRC
The combination of botensilimab and balstilimab elicited deep objective responses with evidence of durability and encouraging tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with microsatellite stable, metastatic colorectal cancer.
Atezolizumab Does Not Improve pCR in HER2-Positive Early Breast Cancer
Adding atezolizumab to neoadjuvant standard of care therapy for HER2-positive early breast cancer did not result in a better pathologic complete response compared with placebo, according to findings from the phase 3 IMpassion050 trial.
T-VEC Plus Pembrolizumab Generates Promising Responses, Safety in PD-1–Refractory Advanced Melanoma
June 20th 2022Adding talimogene laherparepvec to pembrolizumab led to encouraging responses with a manageable safety profile in patients with advanced melanoma who progressed on prior anti–PD-1 therapy, most notably in the adjuvant setting, according to findings from the phase 2 MASTERKEY-115 trial.
Cosibelimab Continues to Show Promise in Locally Advanced Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
The PD-L1 antibody cosibelimab was found to elicit an encouraging objective response rate in patients with locally advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma who were not eligible to undergo curative surgery or radiation.
Quavonlimab/Pembrolizumab Combo Shows Modest Antitumor Activity in Advanced Melanoma
The combination of quavonlimab and pembrolizumab was found to be generally well tolerated and to have modest antitumor activity in patients with advanced melanoma that progressed on a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor, according to data from a phase 1/2 trial (NCT03179436).
Nivolumab/Ipilimumab and Nivolumab/Chemo Indications Enhance ESCC Treatment Landscape
The approval of 2 nivolumab-containing combinations for patients with advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma have opened the doors for immunotherapy to enter the landscape for this population allowing clinicians options to help patients to meet their individual treatment goals.