Hayley Virgil

The first patient with operable, locally or regionally advanced melanoma has been dosed with the intratumoral DNA plasmid-based interleukin-12 therapy tavokinogene telseplasmid in combination with nivolumab as a neoadjuvant treatment before surgery in the investigator-initiated, phase 2 OMS-104 trial.

February 16, 2021 - Only 34.3% of 14,689 patients with ovarian cancer received germline genetic testing between 2013 and 2019, revealing persistent underuse of testing among this population.

Andrew Mckenzie, PhD, discusses the differences between tissue- and plasma-based NGS tests, factors that can lead to a lack of concordance, and important areas of ongoing research.

Jacqueline Claudia Barrientos, MD, MS, explaines how she navigates among the options available in the frontline setting for patients with CLL and highlighted ongoing research efforts of interest.

Narendranath Epperla, MD, MS, expands on findings from the L-MIND trial in DLBCL, as well as the significance of selinexor and other options in the pipeline.

February 13, 2021 - Bacillus calmette-guérin plus N-803 demonstrated promising responses with a tolerable safety profile when used in patients with BCG-unresponsive, non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer carcinoma in situ

February 9, 2021 - Responsiveness to treatment received immediately prior to CAR T-cell therapy may not be associated with post–CAR T outcomes in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who receive axicabtagene ciloleucel.

Vincent Lam, MD, describes frontline indications for this patient population, as well as strategies that can be utilized to overcome TKI resistance in later lines of therapy.

February 5, 2021 - Significant heterogeneity was identified in risk of coronavirus disease 2019–related death in patients based on factors such as cancer subtype, age, sex, and in-patient proportion.

February 4, 2021 - Despite the threat the coronavirus disease 2019 presents, it’s necessary that patients with cancer continue to receive care at outpatient facilities—a feat that has been made possible at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center through multidisciplinary efforts, innovative strategy, and technologic advances.

February 3, 2021 - The Drive-By Flu-Fecal Immunochemical Test program not only provides safe and socially distanced colorectal cancer screening opportunities during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, but also may help to address screening declines in diverse communities.

Florian Fintelmann, MD, discusses lung cancer screening with low-dose chest CT, barriers to testing, and the potential expansion of USPSTF lung cancer screening guidelines.

February 2, 2021 - ASCO has chosen molecular profiling driving progress in gastointestinal cancers as its Advance of the Year.

January 29, 2021 - Health-related quality of life was maintained for patients with EGFR-positive non–small cell lung cancer who received treatment with adjuvant osimertinib versus placebo, with no clinically meaningful differences noted between study arms.

January 28, 2021 - The combination of osimertinib and savolitinib may be able to overcome MET resistance in patients with EGFR-mutant, MET-amplified or -overexpressed non–small cell lung cancer, including those who have previously progressed on a prior EGFR TKI.

January 27, 2021 - Perioperative chemotherapy did not improve overall survival in patients with resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma when compared with historical data from adjuvant trials.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, reflects on key pivotal trials and recent regulatory decisions that have propelled progress in metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.

Reinhard Dummer, MD, shares his approach for selecting between targeted approaches and immunotherapy agents in the adjuvant treatment of patients with melanoma.

Kathleen A. Dorritie, MD, details the utility of minimal residual disease in multiple trials in the multiple myeloma space.

Joseph Kim, MD, discusses the multidisciplinary management of patients with HCC.

January 16, 2021 - Mean daily step count during the first 2 weeks of treatment with SM-88 was found to correlate with overall self-reported quality of life in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

January 15, 2021 - One-year overall survival was found increased the longer that patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma remained on treatment with liposomal irinotecan plus 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin.

Prakash Pandalai, MD, discusses the role of HIPEC in CRC peritoneal carcinomatosis and data from the PRODIGE 7 and PROPHYLOCHIP-PRODIGE 15 trials.

January 7, 2021 - The reversible BET inhibitor CC-90010 was found to have preliminary antitumor activity in patients with heavily pretreated, advanced solid tumors and relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

January 7, 2021 - Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who were treated with a 920 mg dose of SM-88 were less likely to experience a change in tumor texture and were found to have more favorable outcomes, according to results from a phase 2 dose-escalation trial.

January 6th, 2021 - The addition of vemurafenib to irinotecan and cetuximab led to a significant improvement in progression-free survival versus irinotecan and cetuximab alone in patients with BRAF V600E–mutated metastatic colorectal cancer.

Rami Manochakian, MD, underscores the importance of looking for actionable alterations in lung cancer, barriers to genetic testing, and what is needed to overcome them.

Joseph Kim, MD, discusses pivotal trials in metastatic prostate cancer, the rise of PARP inhibitors and novel combinations under investigation, and the promise of relugolix.

Omar Mian, MD, PhD, discusses selective bladder preservation in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, biomarkers of response, and the utilization of hypofractionated radiation vs traditional approaches in this population.

December 28, 2020 - The investigational selective estrogen receptor degrader SAR439859 elicited clinical, on-target activity in patients with heavily pretreated estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, even in the presence of multiple resistance mechanisms.