Silas Inman

Concurrent chemoradiation significantly improved overall survival compared with radiation therapy alone for elderly patients with locally advanced head and neck cancers.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to durvalumab as a treatment for patients with PD-L1–positive inoperable or metastatic urothelial bladder cancer following progression on prior treatment with a platinum-based regimen.

The FDA has placed a full clinical hold on trials exploring pacritinib, following reports of patient deaths related to intracranial hemorrhage, cardiac failure, and cardiac arrest in the phase III PERSIST-2 trial.

The FDA has scheduled an ODAC advisory hearing for April 12, 2016, to discuss the new drug application for rociletinib as a treatment for patients with metastatic EGFR T790M-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

Treatment with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor neratinib demonstrated a 2-year disease-free survival rate of 93.9% in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer, representing a 33% improvement compared with placebo.

Treating patients with chemorefractory advanced colorectal cancer has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. Now, with two agents approved, the optimal sequence for therapies regorafenib and TAS-102 becomes the next relevant question.

The European Commission has granted a conditional marketing authorization to osimertinib for patients with locally advanced or metastatic EGFR T790M mutation-positive non–small cell lung cancer, regardless of prior treatment with EGFR TKI.

The second interim analysis of the phase III METEOR trial has revealed a statistically significant improvement in overall survival with cabozantinib (Cometriq) versus everolimus as a treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma following progression on one prior therapy.

Treatment with allogeneic anti–CD19 chimeric antigen receptor–modified T cell therapy induced complete remissions in 30% of patients with advanced progressive B-cell malignancies without causing graft-versus-host disease.

The FDA has granted a priority review designation to cabozantinib as a treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma following progression on one prior therapy.

Nivolumab has improved overall survival versus investigator's choice of therapy for patients with platinum-refractory squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck in the phase III CheckMate-141 trial.

The FDA has approved eribulin mesylate as a treatment for patients with advanced or unresectable liposarcoma following prior treatment with an anthracycline-based chemotherapy.

Adding panitumumab (Vectibix) to best supportive care reduced the risk of death by 30% for patients with RAS wild-type chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

The PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) elicited encouraging activity with mild adverse events as a treatment for patients with advanced PD-L1–positive esophageal carcinoma.

Adding liposomal irinotecan to 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin reduced the risk of death by 25% for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer following progression on a gemcitabine-based regimen.

Preoperative treatment with short-course radiation therapy plus 3 cycles of chemotherapy improved overall survival (OS) and was associated with fewer adverse events compared with standard chemoradiation for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer.

The FDA has granted a priority review designation to the combination of lenvatinib and everolimus as a treatment for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma following one prior VEGF-targeted therapy.

Regulatory filings have been submitted in the United States and Europe for the combination of lenvatinib and everolimus as a treatment for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma following a VEGF-targeted therapy.

The optimal frontline treatment strategy for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma could look dramatically different in the next few years, as studies assess combination strategies and predictive biomarkers for immunotherapy and targeted therapies.

Hypofractionated radiotherapy demonstrated similar toxicity and was noninferior to standard radiation therapy for preventing PSA increases or disease recurrences for men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

The addition of the CTLA-4 inhibitor ipilimumab to cisplatin and gemcitabine did not significantly improve overall survival for patients with metastatic urothelial cancer.

The FDA has approved a non-alcohol formulation of docetaxel as a treatment for patients with breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, prostate cancer, gastric adenocarcinoma, and head and neck cancer.

A new drug application has been submitted for cabozantinib as a treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who have received one prior therapy.

Grade 3 diarrhea occurred in 16% of patients treated with neratinib and prophylactic loperamide, representing a significant reduction compared with phase III findings from the ExteNET trial.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to the third-generation EGFR TKI BI-1482694 as a potential treatment for patients with EGFR T790M-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Frontline treatment with afatinib reduced the risk of progression or death by 27% compared with gefitinib for patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

Treatment with pembrolizumab reduced the risk of death by 29% compared with docetaxel for patients with PD-L1-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Multimodal screening using CA-125 and a risk assessment algorithm could reduce the risk of mortality from ovarian cancer in certain women.

The European Commission has approved talimogene laherparepvec as a treatment for adult patients with unresectable stage IIIb, IIIc, and IVM1a melanoma that has not spread to the bone, brain, lung, or other viscera.

The MEK inhibitor binimetinib has demonstrated an improvement in progression-free survival compared with dacarbazine in patients with advanced NRAS-mutant melanoma.