Chris Ryan

The MEK inhibitor trametinib reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 52% compared with current standard-of-care therapies in patients with relapsed or persistent low-grade serous ovarian carcinoma, making it the potential new SOC for this patient population.

The emergence of novel agents, including CAR T-cell therapies and antibody-drug conjugates, plus existing options such as chemoimmunotherapy and bone-marrow transplant, have combined to raise questions about the sequencing of these treatments in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The addition of atezolizumab to neoadjuvant gemcitabine and cisplatin generated a high rate of non–muscle-invasive downstaging following radical cystectomy, which correlated with improved relapse-free survival and overall survival in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to data from a phase 2 trial.

The combination of ixabepilone and bevacizumab significantly improved progression-free survival vs ixabepilone alone in the treatment of platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, according to data from the phase 2 trial published in the British Journal of Cancer.

The PARP inhibitor niraparib elicited a meaningful overall response rate in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and DNA repair gene defects, particularly those with BRCA alterations.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to the investigational anti-BCMA CAR T-cell therapy CT103A for use as a potential therapeutic option in patients relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Many Americans, particularly those in communities of color or socially and economically challenged populations, are presenting with advanced-stage disease, enduring aggressive treatment, and dying from cancers that should be detected early.

The combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab elicited comparable antitumor activity compared with placebo plus pembrolizumab as frontline therapy in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma who were ineligible for platinum-based chemotherapy, according to data from LEAP-011.

The administration of daily aspirin did not improve invasive disease-free survival in patients with high-risk, HER2-negative breast cancer.

The combination of ibrutinib plus rituximab generated a high rate of complete response and undetectable minimal residual disease when used in the frontline treatment of patients with indolent clinical forms of mantle cell lymphoma, allowing for treatment interruption in most responders.

Patients with HER2-positive, early-stage breast cancer who achieved a pathologic complete response after receiving HER2-targeted therapy experienced better outcomes in terms of disease-free survival and overall survival vs those who did not, according to data from a real-world study.

Health care disparities remain a major issue in cancer care, and factors contributing to this inequality stretch far beyond access to clinical care.

The combination of the TKI inhibitor imatinib and the MEK inhibitor binimetinib elicited encouraging responses in patients with treatment-naïve advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

The subcutaneous combination of the BCMA-targeting bispecific antibody teclistamab and daratumumab produced promising preliminary efficacy and favorable tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, according to results from the phase 1b TRIMM-2 trial.

Frontline administration of the checkpoint inhibitors ipilimumab plus nivolumab followed by the targeted agents dabrafenib plus trametinib improved overall survival in patients with BRAF V600–mutant melanoma vs the reverse sequence of combinations, according to data from the phase 3 DREAMseq trial presented during the ASCO Virtual Plenary Series.

Amer Karam, MD, discusses the role of secondary cytoreductive surgery in ovarian cancer and the need for careful patient selection, plus the results from 3 clinical trials and the key differences between these efforts.

The combination of tivozanib and durvalumab showcased early efficacy with a manageable safety profile in patients with previously untreated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

The FGFR TKI erdafitinib continued to provide consistent clinical benefits with a manageable safety profile when used in the second-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma harboring FGFR alterations.

Although pembrolizumab monotherapy showed noninferiority to chemotherapy for overall survival in patients with advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma and a PD-L1 combined positive score of 1 or higher, and a clinically meaningful benefit over chemotherapy in those with a CPS of 10 or higher, pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy failed to show superiority over chemotherapy alone in either subset.

Venetoclax proved to be safe and highly active when used in patients with relapsed or refractory Waldenström macroglobulinemia, including those who previously received BTK inhibitors and those harboring CXCR4 mutations.

The safety and efficacy of luspatercept vs placebo is under exploration in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasm–associated myelofibrosis who are receiving concomitant JAK2 inhibitor therapy and who require red blood cell transfusions, as part of the phase 3 INDEPENDENCE trial.

Pembrolizumab monotherapy produced meaningful, durable responses in patients with previously treated, advanced microsatellite instability–high or mismatch repair–deficient endometrial cancer.

Treatment with ibrutinib in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia was linked with increased risk of cardiovascular adverse effects like atrial fibrillation, hospital-diagnosed bleeding, and heart failure, but was not linked with a higher risk of acute myocardial infarction or stroke.

The combination of ibrutinib and rituximab produced a high overall response rate and durable survival in elderly patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

The FDA has agreed upon key elements, including design features and operational details, for the phase 3 ZILO-301 trial, which will evaluate zilovertamab in combination with ibrutinib in patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

CLN-081 continued to produce encouraging, durable responses with favorable safety and tolerability in patients with non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations and who have progressed on or after prior therapy.

The FDA has accepted an investigational new drug application for the photoimmunotherapy treatment, RM-1995, for patients with advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma or head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The combination of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte cell therapy with lifileucel or LN-145 and pembrolizumab demonstrated encouraging efficacy and safety in patients with advanced melanoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and cervical cancer who were naïve to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

The addition of lenalidomide to rituximab maintenance treatment significantly improved progression-free survival compared with rituximab alone following first-line chemoimmunotherapy in patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Itolizumab showed the potential to decrease the response of host T cells to a donor graft, minimize the incidence of acute graft-vs-host disease following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and improve outcomes for these patients.