Precision Medicine in Oncology®

The FDA has granted a regular approval to selpercatinib (Retevmo) for adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer harboring a RET gene fusion, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

Alpelisib decreased the need for surgery and led to improvements in performance status and disease-related signs and symptoms in pediatric patients with PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum disease who received treatment with the PI3K inhibitor under compassionate use.

Srdan Verstovsek, MD, PhD, discusses the clinical implications of the FDA approval of pemigatinib, the results of the FIGHT-203 trial, and the need to conduct chromosomal analysis for patients with myeloid/lymphoid neoplasms.

Results from a retrospective analysis presented during the 2022 ESMO Congress indicated that circulating tumor DNA could potentially be leveraged as a prognostic factor and a tumor-specific biomarker for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in China.

The ULK1/2 inhibitor DCC-3116 was well tolerated as a monotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic tumors harboring a RAS or RAF mutation.

An updated analysis of the phase 1 SURPASS trial showed that ADP-A2M4CD8, a next-generational autologous T-cell receptor designed to patients with solid tumors, may be an effective therapy in MAGE-A4-positive disease.

In this fifth episode of OncChats: Taking Action to Individualize Ovarian Cancer Care, John Nakayama, MD, and Christopher Morse, MD, share key takeaways from their discussion on how to best individualize care for patients with ovarian cancer.

In this fourth episode of OncChats: Taking Action to Individualize Ovarian Cancer Care, John Nakayama, MD, and Christopher Morse, MD, discuss key developments made with PARP inhibitors in the ovarian cancer treatment paradigm.

The FDA has approved pemigatinib (Pemazyre) for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory myeloid/lymphoid neoplasms and FGFR1 rearrangement.

Although the efficacy of targeted agents and outcomes for patients with genetic mutations can vary, the availability of these treatments adds to the need for genetic testing across all patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Liquid biopsy using targeted next-generation sequencing for early diagnosis and monitoring of patients with myeloid neoplasms is effective and detects chromosomal structural abnormalities.

In this third episode of OncChats: Taking Action to Individualize Ovarian Cancer Care, John Nakayama, MD, and Christopher Morse, MD, explain the differences between germline and somatic testing in patients with ovarian cancer.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to taletrectinib for use as a potential therapeutic option in adult patients with advanced or metastatic ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer who were ROS1 inhibitor naïve or who previously received crizotinib.

Julian Schink, MD, discusses a study evaluating racial differences in the mutational landscape of serous endometrial cancer, underscores the need for appropriate genomic testing and treatment for Black women with the disease, and explains the importance of racial representation across clinical trials.

Although tumor mutational burden is established as a clinically informative feature of tumors, its optimal use in therapeutic decision-making faces many challenges, and we are only beginning to fully understand its strengths and limitations.

In this second episode of OncChats: Taking Action to Individualize Ovarian Cancer Care, John Nakayama, MD, and Christopher Morse, MD, discuss how to counsel patients with ovarian cancer whose tumors harbor BRCA mutations.

The Guardant Reveal assay has been expanded for the detection of minimal residual disease and disease recurrence in patients with early-stage breast cancer and lung cancer.

The FDA has approved the Oncomine Dx Target Test as a companion diagnostic to identify patients with NSCLC harboring an activating HER2 mutation who may derive clinical benefit from treatment with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki.

Vivek Subbiah, MD, discusses the significance of the approval of dabrafenib plus trametinib for adult and pediatric patients 6 years or older with unresectable or metastatic BRAF V600E–mutant solid tumors and highlights future directions for tumor agnostic drug development.

The FDA has expanded its approval of the VENTANA MMR RxDx panel to identify patients with mismatch repair–deficient solid tumors and as a companion diagnostic assay to determine eligibility for pembrolizumab as a treatment for patients with mismatch repair–proficient endometrial cancer.

In this first episode of OncChats: Taking Action to Individualize Ovarian Cancer Care, John Nakayama, MD, and Christopher Morse, MD, discuss how BRCA mutational status affects treatment decisions for patients with ovarian cancer.

Giuseppe Lo Russo, MD, PhD, highlights the future role of liquid biopsy, the evolution of targeted therapies for KRAS G12C mutations, data to look forward to with EGFR-targeted agents, and the striking effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the mortality rates of patients with lung cancer.

The first-in-class p53 reactivator, PC14586, induced a response in approximately 1 of 4 patients with advanced solid tumors harboring p53 Y220C mutations and showcased an acceptable safety profile consisting primarily of grade 1 and 2 events.

During the past several decades, cancer research has produced revolutionary discoveries leading to dramatic results for many patients.

The LAG-3 pathway has emerged as the next target for the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in oncology.

Vivek Subbiah, MD, discusses the FDA approval of dabrafenib plus trametinib for the treatment of patients with BRAF V600E–mutated unresectable or metastatic solid tumors.

Jacob J. Adashek, DO, discusses how targeting molecular alterations is key for treating multiple types of cancer.

The FDA has approved crizotinib for adult and pediatric patients aged 1 year and older with unresectable, recurrent, or refractory inflammatory ALK-positive myofibroblastic tumors.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to PBI-200 for the treatment of patients with NTRK fusion–positive solid tumors, including primary and metastatic brain tumors.

The role of NTRK gene fusions across multiple cancer types have led investigators to confirm the marker in real-world data analyses.