Ashling Wahner

Kathryn C. Arbour, MD, discusses the unique mechanism of action of RMC-6236, the preliminary efficacy and safety findings for this agent in patients with KRAS-mutant NSCLC, and future directions for the RMC-6236-001 trial.

Jesus Berdeja, MD, discussed considerations when choosing between bispecific antibodies and CAR T-cell therapy for patients with multiple myeloma, clinical trials that may move CAR T-cell therapy into earlier lines, and research with agents directed at targets other than BCMA.

Active surveillance can provide eligible patients with low-risk prostate cancer the opportunity to defer or avoid treatment and instead opt for routine monitoring of their disease; however, challenges arise when determining which patients should be eligible for this approach and how to maintain patient and provider protocol compliance.

Gautam Jayram, MD, discusses current standards of care in the bladder cancer treatment arena, novel therapies under investigation in clinical trials that may expand the arsenal of available treatment strategies, and emphasizes the importance of implementing bladder cancer programs.

Christopher R. Flowers, MD, MS, and colleagues shed light on recent updates in the treatment armamentarium for follicular lymphoma and highlight ongoing investigations of novel agents and combinations.

The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on the phase 1 NX-2127-001 trial investigating the novel BTK degrader NX-2127 in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies.

Zenocutuzumab elicited clinical activity with a tolerable safety profile in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring NRG1 fusions, including those with prior afatinib exposure, according to findings from the ongoing, phase 1/2 eNRGy trial.

Steven I. Park, MD, discusses the unique design of the SYMPHONY-1 trial, the importance of enrolling patients to the phase 3 portion of the study, and why tazemetostat in combination with lenalidomide and rituximab could represent an effective and tolerable therapeutic option for frail or older patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma.

The FDA has lifted the clinical hold placed on a phase 1 trial evaluating XMT-2056 monotherapy in patients with HER2-high or -low advanced or recurrent solid tumors.

Apar Kishor Ganti, MD, discusses molecular targets to test for in lung cancer; treatment approaches for small cell lung cancer; and immunotherapy options for patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer in the frontline setting and beyond.

The European Medicines Agency has validated a type II variation application for the first-line combination of nivolumab and cisplatin-based chemotherapy for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Vimseltinib elicited a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in 25-week overall response rate vs placebo in patients with tenosynovial giant cell tumor that was not amenable to surgery.

Richard Kim, MD, discusses the range of systemic treatment options available for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma and the importance of assessing patients for high-risk disease criteria before beginning any systemic treatment.

The FDA has granted fast track designation to the dual-acting androgen receptor inhibitor ONCT-534 for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory, metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer that is resistant to approved androgen receptor pathway inhibitors.

The combination of bezuclastinib and sunitinib had a tolerable safety profile and demonstrated early signals of clinical activity in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor.

The combination of sobuzoxane and etoposide plus rituximab prolonged survival and showcased a tolerable safety profile in patients with previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma aged 80 years and older.

Treatment with combinations using sotorasib at multiple dose levels and panitumumab led to improved progression-free survival vs standard of care in patients with chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer harboring KRAS G12C mutations.

Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab plus endocrine therapy generated a statistically significant increase in pathologic complete response vs neoadjuvant placebo plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab and endocrine therapy in patients with high-risk, early-stage, estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

David S. Hong, MD, and David Sommerhalder, MD, discuss the unmet needs for patients with KRAS G12C–mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and colorectal cancer (CRC) that prompted the initiation of the RMC-6291-001 trial; the key efficacy and safety findings with RMC-6291 in patients with NSCLC and CRC; and potential next steps for this agent.

Alison K. Conlin, MD, discusses patient characteristics that drive second-line treatment decisions for patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer; remaining needs for patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative disease; and the evolving role of oral selective estrogen receptor degraders in patients with ESR1-mutated disease.

Anthony M. Hunter, MD, discusses the roles for pacritinib, momelotinib, and fedratinib in patients with myelofibrosis; treatment sequencing with newer-generation JAK inhibitors after ruxolitinib; and the importance of having several treatment options in the second-line setting and beyond.

Daniel S. Childs, MD, and colleagues spotlight future innovations in the management of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, treatment sequencing for metastatic urothelial carcinoma, and key data with PARP inhibitor combinations in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to the dendritic cell vaccine DOC1021 for use as a potential therapeutic option in patients with glioblastoma multiforme.

Rena D. Callahan, MD, discusses the current standards for breast cancer imaging modalities, the complexities of using bone biopsy, and the importance of continuing to study nonstandard imaging modalities to increase the accessibility of breast cancer imaging for metastatic disease.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has authorized the use of dostarlimab in combination with chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with mismatch repair-deficient/microsatellite instability–high primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

Daily adaptive radiotherapy with 1-mm planning target volume margins is feasible in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and was associated with improved dosimetric parameters compared with standard radiotherapy.

Faith E. Davies, MD, discusses the overarching goals of the Multiple Myeloma Call-to-Action, unmet needs that this plan seeks to alleviate, and ways in which all medical professionals could adopt these tenets into their practice to achieve global change in the care of patients with multiple myeloma.

The FDA has given an orphan drug designation to BDC-1001 for the treatment of patients with gastric cancers, including gastroesophageal junction cancer.

Overall response rates with bispecific antibody monotherapy in patients with extramedullary relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma were lower than ORRs observed across all patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma included in a systematic review evaluating the efficacy of this class of agents in this difficult-to-treat population.

Naval G. Daver, MD, discusses the rationale for investigating uproleselan combinations in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, the current role of quizartinib in patients with FLT3-ITD–mutated disease, and potential future directions with both these agents in the AML field.