Kristie L. Kahl

Daratumumab maintenance therapy with or without pomalidomide provided a tolerable and feasible treatment option after salvage hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma.

The addition of tumor treating fields to standard-of-care immunotherapy or chemotherapy regimens elicited an improvement in overall survival vs SOC therapies alone in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer following progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy, according to data from the phase 3 LUNAR trial.

The use of maintenance niraparib enhanced antitumor activity and led to a clinically meaningful increase in progression-free survival vs placebo for patients with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer who displayed measurable residual disease after first-line platinum-based chemotherapy, according to findings from a post hoc subgroup analysis of the phase 3 PRIME study.

Second-line maintenance therapy with niraparib improved overall survival vs active surveillance in patients with recurrent BRCA wild-type ovarian cancer.

Darolutamide was well tolerated and generated clinically meaningful activity across secondary end points in the treatment of patients with androgen receptor–positive salivary gland cancer.

The implementation of health systems strengthening models appeared to be effective in reducing disparities in leukemia survival among patients in low- and middle-income countries.

Findings from the phase 3 ZIRCON trial showed that imaging with 89Zr-DFO-girentuximab could improve the identification and risk stratification of patients with renal tumors.

Nivolumab following radical surgery continued to display a benefit in disease-free survival in patients with muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma and muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Specific comorbidities were linked with complications following partial nephrectomy, compared with radical nephrectomy, in patients with T1b to T2 renal cell carcinoma.

A post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 ARASENS trial demonstrated that the addition of darolutamide to androgen deprivation therapy and docetaxel produced deep and durable prostate-specific antigen responses in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

First-line avelumab maintenance therapy prolonged survival in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma, regardless of response to first-line chemotherapy, according to findings from an exploratory subgroup analysis of the phase 3 JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial.

Reduced doses of apalutamide did not significantly decrease rates of skin-related adverse effects vs full-dose apalutamide in patients with advanced prostate cancer.

With the advent of effective drug regimens to treat HER2-positive breast cancer, the use of tailored efforts with neoadjuvant therapy in this space may continue to improve efficacy moving forward.

Idecabtagene vicleucel demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival and objective response compared with standard of care approaches in patients with triple-class-exposed relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Patients with multiple myeloma who were treated with autologous stem cell transplantation were found to be utilizing chronic opioids at high rates, in turn leading to worse overall survival outcomes at 6 months of follow-up.

The addition of 24 months of androgen deprivation therapy to postoperative radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy provided a metastasis-free survival benefit and improved time to salvage therapy in patients with prostate cancer.

Tucatinib plus trastuzumab improved radiographic response rates in patients with metastatic HER2-positive colorectal cancer initially treated with tucatinib monotherapy who later crossed over to receive doublet therapy.

The triplet regimen of cabozantinib plus standard-of-care nivolumab and ipilimumab reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 27% vs placebo in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Cemiplimab produced pathologic complete responses as a neoadjuvant treatment in more than half of patients with resectable, stage II to IV cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

The combination of adjuvant nivolumab and ipilimumab did not elicit a significant disease-free survival benefit vs placebo in patients with localized, renal cell carcinoma at high risk for relapse after nephrectomy.

The frontline combination of tremelimumab plus durvalumab and chemotherapy generated a long-term overall survival benefit in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

The addition of abemaciclib to trastuzumab, with or without fulvestrant, provided a numerical overall survival improvement over standard-of-care trastuzumab plus chemotherapy in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-positive advanced breast cancer, according to data from the monarcHER trial.

Increased exposure to particulate matter may be a mechanistic driver for EGFR-positive non–small cell lung cancer, prompting a focus on limiting exposure to air pollutants and an increased need for molecular testing.

Although the primary end points of the phase 3 LEAP-002 trial did not meet prespecified statistical significance with regard to survival benefit achieved with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab, the median overall survival observed with lenvatinib monotherapy supports its role as a standard of care in frontline advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treatment.

Two years of olaparib maintenance therapy elicited a long-term overall survival benefit vs placebo in patients with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer harboring a BRCA mutation.

Maintenance olaparib plus bevacizumab following first-line standard-of-care treatment improved overall survival in patients with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer, particularly those with homologous recombination deficiency.

Single-agent dostarlimab generated durable antitumor activity in patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer with mismatch repair deficient/microsatellite instability–high or mismatch repair proficient/mismatch stable disease.

A combination comprised of cobimetinib and vemurafenib demonstrated evidence of antitumor activity in patents with advanced solid tumors harboring BRAF V600E and other mutations who are not otherwise eligible to receive other FDA-approved therapies.

Adagrasib led to early onset and deep responses translating to encouraging survival as a single agent in previously treated patients with KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer, according to results from cohort A of the phase 1/2 KRYSTAL-1 trial.