Immuno-Oncology

Omid Hamid, MD, discusses the key efficacy and safety findings for the combination of fianlimab plus cemiplimab in patients with advanced melanoma.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of pembrolizumab plus trastuzumab, fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy for the frontline treatment of patients with advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma whose tumors have a PD-L1 combined positive score of at least 1.

Treatment with the combination of ENB-003 and pembrolizumab was well tolerated and produced preliminary signs of clinical activity in patients with platinum-refractory or -resistant, microsatellite stable ovarian cancer, and those with other advanced refractory solid tumors.

The addition of the PD-L1 inhibitor tislelizumab to standard bevacizumab and platinum-doublet chemotherapy in the first-line setting prolonged progression-free survival, produced encouraging responses, and was well tolerated in patients with cervical cancer.

The addition of pembrolizumab to external beam radiotherapy and concurrent chemotherapy, followed by brachytherapy, improved progression-free survival vs concurrent chemoradiotherapy alone in newly diagnosed patients with high-risk locally advanced cervical cancer.

The combination of the NOX1/4 inhibitor setanaxib and pembrolizumab produced progression-free survival benefits compared with placebo plus pembrolizumab in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Michael J. Birrer, MD, PhD, highlights the effect of improved molecular characterization in endometrial cancer, the clinical significance of the KEYNOTE-775 trial, and recent changes in the frontline treatment landscape in advanced endometrial cancer.

ONC-392/BNT316 demonstrated early signs of antitumor activity and manageable safety in patients with metastatic, PD-(L)1–resistant non–small cell lung cancer.

Pembrolizumab led to sustained improvements in recurrence-free survival and distant metastasis–free survival vs placebo as adjuvant therapy in patients with resected stage IIB or IIC melanoma

The European Commission has approved nivolumab in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for the neoadjuvant treatment of patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer at high risk of recurrence with tumor cell PD-L1 expression of at least 1%.

The FDA has granted fast track designation to the combination of quaratusugene ozeplasmid and atezolizumab as maintenance therapy in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer whose disease did not progress after receiving initial standard treatment with atezolizumab and chemotherapy.

The combination of galinpepimut-S and nivolumab provided positive survival outcomes with an acceptable safety profile in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma who were refractory to or relapsed after at least 1 line of standard treatment.

In this fourth episode of OncChats: Examining LIFU–Aided Liquid Biopsy in Glioblastoma, Manmeet Singh Ahluwalia, MD, MBA, FASCO, and Michael W. McDermott, MD, discuss the key objectives of the phase 3 LIMITLESS study (NCT05317858) examining low-intensity focused ultrasound with immunotherapy and chemotherapy in patients with lung cancer and brain metastases.

Camrelizumab combined with famitinib elicited responses and was well tolerated in patients with advanced melanoma previously exposed to an immune checkpoint inhibitor regimen.

The combination of favezelimab and pembrolizumab continued to demonstrate a manageable safety profile and antitumor activity in patients with relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma, irrespective of whether they received prior anti–PD-1 therapy.

Kidney and renal pelvis cancers are one of the 10 most common new malignant diagnoses in both men and women in the United States, with an estimated 52,360 new cases in men and 29,440 new cases in women per year.

Frontline treatment with the combination of brentuximab vedotin, nivolumab, doxorubicin, and dacarbazine led to an overall response rate of 98% and a complete response rate of 93% in patients with early-stage, classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

Stephen V. Liu, MD, highlighted the importance of next-generation sequencing in lung cancer, key trials that have shifted the non–small cell lung cancer treatment landscape, and detailed ongoing research at Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The addition of durvalumab to standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy significantly improved pathologic complete response over neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone in patients with resectable, early-stage and locally advanced gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers.

The addition of pembrolizumab to pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy resulted in a numerical, but not statistically significant, improvement in progression-free survival or overall survival vs chemotherapy plus placebo in patients with TKI-resistant, EGFR-mutated, metastatic nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.

The addition of atezolizumab to cabozantinib did not improve progression-free survival or overall survival vs cabozantinib alone in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who previously received treatment with an immune checkpoint inhibitor, missing the primary end points of the phase 3 CONTACT-03 trial.

Talquetamab plus daratumumab displayed high response rates regardless of 0.4 mg/kg or 0.8 mg/kg dosing in combination with daratumumab in patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, irrespective of prior treatment with CD38-directed therapy and T-cell redirection therapy.

The addition of pembrolizumab to neoadjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy followed by resection and adjuvant pembrolizumab alone resulted in a significant improvement in event-free survival and pathological response for patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of nivolumab as neoadjuvant therapy in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer at high risk of recurrence and tumor cell PD-L1 expression of at least 1%.

The National Medical Products Administration has accepted the supplemental new drug application seeking the approval of toripalimab in combination with nab-paclitaxel in patients with untreated metastatic or recurrent triple-negative breast cancer and a PD-L1 combined positive score of at least 1.

The combination of GEN-002 and avelumab elicited responses in patients with advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, according to findings from an interim analysis of an ongoing phase 2 trial.

Roger Li, MD, discusses how the synergistic mechanism of pembrolizumab plus CG0070 could address unmet needs in BCG-unresponsive NMIBC, safety and efficacy data for the combination from the CORE-001 trial, and how those data support planned research efforts for CG0070 in this space.

John Michael "JM" Bryant, MD, expands on the results of the interim analysis of the single-center, single-arm phase 2 trial for patients with grade group 5 prostate cancer treated with the combination of nivolumab and standard of care.

Karen L. Reckamp, MD, MS, discusses the rationale for evaluating patients with early-stage NSCLC who received adjuvant atezolizumab as part of the LCMC3 study and explains the significance and limitations of data from a retrospective analysis.

Health Canada has approved the combination of cemiplimab and platinum-based chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer without EGFR, ALK, or ROS1 aberrations who are not candidates for definitive chemoradiation.