Associate Editorial Director, OncLive®
Kristi Rosa joined MJH Life Sciences in 2016 and has since held several positions within the company. She helped launch the rapidly growing infectious disease news resource Contagion, strengthened the Rare Disease Report, of HCPLive, and now oversees OncLive and its flagship publication OncologyLive. Prior to working at the company, she served as lead copywriter and marketing coordinator at The Strand Theater. Email: krosa@onclive.com
FDA Approval Sought for Pacritinib in Myelofibrosis With Severe Thrombocytopenia
October 13th 2020A rolling submission of a new drug application for the JAK2/FLT3 inhibitor pacritinib has been initiated for patients with myelofibrosis and severe thrombocytopenia defined as platelet counts of less than 50,000 μL.
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Mogamulizumab Significantly Boosts Outcomes in CTCL With Blood Involvement
October 13th 2020Higher levels of blood tumor involvement were linked with more favorable outcomes in patients who received treatment with mogamulizumab compared with vorinostat in patients with 2 types of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
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Enfortumab Vedotin Demonstrates Durable Responses in Advanced Urothelial Cancer
October 12th 2020Enfortumab vedotin elicited durable responses in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who received previous treatment with a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor, have not been given a platinum-containing chemotherapy, and are not eligible for cisplatin.
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Avatrombopag Falls Short in Chemotherapy-Induced Thrombocytopenia
October 9th 2020Avatrombopag failed to meet the composite primary end point of avoiding platelet transfusions, chemotherapy dose reductions by 15% or greater, and chemotherapy dose delays by 4 days or more in patients with solid tumors and chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia.
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Palbociclib Fails to Significantly Improve iDFS in Early Breast Cancer
October 9th 2020Palbociclib was not found to significantly improve invasive disease-free survival in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer who had residual disease following neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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Neoadjuvant Nivolumab/Chemo Combo Significantly Improves pCR in Resectable NSCLC
October 7th 2020The combination of nivolumab plus chemotherapy resulted in a statistically significant improvement in pathologic complete response when used as neoadjuvant treatment in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 CheckMate-816 trial.
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Neratinib Shows Numerical OS Improvement in Early Stage HER2+ Breast Cancer
October 7th 2020Neratinib was shown to have a numerical overall survival benefit in addition to improvements in invasive disease-free survival and central nervous system recurrence in patients with HER2-positive, hormone receptor–positive, early stage breast cancer.
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Omidubicel Meets All Secondary End Points of Phase 3 Trial in Hematologic Malignancies
October 6th 2020The investigational advanced cell therapy omidubicel resulted in rapid platelet engraftment and reduced the number of infections and hospitalizations in patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies, meeting all 3 secondary end points of a phase 3 trial.
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FDA Issues Refusal to File Letter for Omburtamab for Pediatric Metastatic Neuroblastoma
October 5th 2020The FDA has issued a Refusal to File letter regarding the biologics license application for the investigational B7-H3–targeting monoclonal antibody omburtamab for the treatment of pediatric patients with central nervous system/leptomeningeal metastasis from neuroblastoma.
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Adjuvant Nivolumab/Ipilimumab Fails to Significantly Improve RFS in High-Risk Melanoma
October 5th 2020The immunotherapy combination of adjuvant nivolumab and ipilimumab failed to lead to a statistically significant improvement in recurrence-free survival in the intent-to-treat population of patients with resected stage IIIB/C/D or stage IV melanoma.
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The novel somatostatin analog for the Targeted Alpha-emitter Therapy 212Pb-DOTAMTATE has demonstrated early efficacy and a tolerable safety profile in a small cohort of patients with metastatic somatostatin receptor–expressing neuroendocrine tumors irrespective of location of the primary tumor.
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FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for Remestemcel-L for Pediatric Steroid-Refractory Acute GVHD
October 2nd 2020The FDA has issued a complete response letter to Mesoblast Limited regarding a biologics license application for remestemcel-L, recommending that at least 1 additional randomized, controlled study be conducted in adult and/or pediatric patients to provide further evidence of the efficacy of the agent in steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease.
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Pacritinib NDA Submission Planned for Myelofibrosis With Severe Thrombocytopenia
October 1st 2020An agreement has been reached to submit a new drug application for the potential accelerated approval of the JAK2/FLT3 inhibitor pacritinib for use in patients with myelofibrosis and severe thrombocytopenia.
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Darolutamide/ADT Data Published in NEJM Underscore Survival Benefit for Nonmetastatic CRPC
September 29th 2020Final data from the pivotal phase 3 ARAMIS trial with darolutamide and androgen deprivation therapy showed that the combination continued to demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in overall survival versus ADT alone in patients with nonmetastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer.
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Injectable Sintilimab/Bevacizumab Biosimilar Combo Improves Survival in Frontline HCC
September 28th 2020Frontline sintilimab injection in combination with bevacizumab biosimilar injection resulted in a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival and overall survival compared with sorafenib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Avapritinib Approved in Europe for PDGFRA D842V–Mutant GIST
September 28th 2020The European Commission has granted a conditional marketing authorization to avapritinib for single agent use in adult patients with unresectable or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors that harbor a PDGFRA D842V mutation.
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FDA Approval Sought for Prostate Cancer Imaging Product TLX591-CDx
September 27th 2020A new drug application has been submitted to the FDA for TLX591-CDx, a radiopharmaceutical product that targets prostate-specific membrane antigen, for the imaging of prostate cancer through the use of positron emission tomography.
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Trastuzumab Deruxtecan Approved in Japan for HER2+ Metastatic Gastric Cancer
September 26th 2020The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has approved the antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive unresectable advanced or recurrent gastric cancer that has progressed following chemotherapy.
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Adjuvant Nivolumab Improves DFS in High-Risk Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma
September 25th 2020Adjuvant nivolumab was found to result in a significant improvement in disease-free survival compared with placebo in patients with high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma, including those whose tumors expressed PD-L1 of 1% or higher, meeting the primary end points of the phase 3 CheckMate-274 trial.
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FDA Grants Fast Track Status to DKN-01 for Gastric and GEJ Cancer
September 25th 2020The FDA has granted a fast track designation to DKN-01 for the treatment of patients with gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma whose tumors have high DKK1 expression, who have progressed on or after a fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy, and HER2/neu targeted therapy, if appropriate.
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FDA Grants Priority Review to Crizotinib for Pediatric ALK+ Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
September 23rd 2020The FDA has granted a priority review to a supplemental new drug application for crizotinib in the treatment of pediatric patients with ALK-positive relapsed/refractory systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma.
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Ivosidenib Shows Modest OS Trend in IDH1+ Cholangiocarcinoma
September 22nd 2020Ivosidenib demonstrated a consistent trend toward improved overall survival compared with placebo in treatment-naïve patients with IDH1-positive cholangiocarcinoma, although the benefit was not determined to be statistically significant.
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