ASCO Annual Meeting

The addition of durvalumab to standard chemotherapy continued to demonstrate an improvement in overall survival for patients with treatment-naïve extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

The combination of cabozantinib (Cabometyx) and atezolizumab (Tecentriq) demonstrated promising objective responses in patients with urothelial carcinoma who progressed after receiving platinum-containing chemotherapy.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel; Yescarta) demonstrated significant and durable clinical benefit as well as a manageable safety profile in patients with relapsed or refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) demonstrated promising clinical activity in patients with HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer, as well as in those with HER2-positive advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Teclistamab (JNJ-64007957) appeared to be a safe and efficacious treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Results from the phase III SPARTAN trial showed that apalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy significantly improved overall survival when compared with ADT plus placebo in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The pharmacodynamic profile of KTE-X19, an autologous anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, was associated with efficacy and treatment-related neurological events among patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma treated within the ZUMA-2 trial.

The combination of encorafenib and binimetinib demonstrated continuing benefit in overall survival and progression-free survival for patients with BRAF V600–mutant melanoma.

An ongoing study of CC-92480 in combination with dexamethasone demonstrated favorable activity and safety data in patients with heavily pretreated relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

The latest results from the phase 3 BEACON CRC study continued to show an overall survival benefit for encorafenib plus cetuximab with or without binimetinib compared with cetuximab plus irinotecan-containing regimens in patients with BRAF V600E–mutated metastatic colorectal cancer.

Imaging with 18F-DCFPyL-PET/CT outperformed that of standard imaging modalities—such as bone scan, CT, MRI, and FDG PET—in patients with biochemically relapsed prostate cancer.

Findings showed that AMG 330 was safe and tolerable in treating patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia, with cytokine release syndrome as the most frequent and expected adverse event.

Findings from a 5-year analysis of the phase 3 COMBI-AD trial validated the long-term benefit of adjuvant dabrafenib and trametinib in patients with resected, stage III BRAF V600E/K-mutant melanoma.

Treatment with pembrolizumab improved progression-free survival after subsequent therapy for patients with PD-L1–positive, relapsed/refractory head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

AMG 510, a novel KRAS G12C inhibitor, demonstrated early evidence of a consistent safety profile and anticancer activity across a range of advanced KRAS G12C-mutant solid tumors other than non–small cell lung cancer and colorectal cancer.

Clinical outcomes in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer who were treated with niraparib plus bevacizumab were significantly improved when compared with niraparib alone.

Relugolix (Relumina) demonstrated superiority over leuprolide (Lupron) in sustained testosterone (T)-suppression through 48 weeks in patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Treatment with pembrolizumab induced a 4.9-month progression-free survival benefit over brentuximab vedotin in patients with relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

Mirvetuximab soravtansine in combination with bevacizumab to treat patients with platinum-agnostic ovarian cancer demonstrated encouraging overall response rates regardless of platinum status with a favorable tolerability profile.

The allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy ALLO-501, paired with the monoclonal antibody ALLO-647, demonstrated clinical responses and manageable toxicity in patients with pretreated large B-cell and follicular lymphomas.

Idecabtagene vicleucel induced a response in nearly three-fourths of patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to topline findings from the pivotal phase 2 KarMMA trial.

Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, FACP, discusses the updated survival data from the BEACON CRC study in BRAF V600E–mutated metastatic colorectal cancer.

Nancy U. Lin, MD, discusses updated findings from the phase 2 HER2CLIMB study in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer with brain metastases.

Pembrolizumab in combination with several chemotherapy partners led to a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone as a first-line treatment for patients with locally recurrent, inoperable, or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer whose tumors expressed PD-L1.

Patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and brain metastases achieved significant intracranial responses with a combination of tucatinib plus trastuzumab and capecitabine, according to findings from a subset of patients in the HER2CLIMB trial.

Results from the CheckMate 9LA suggested that frontline treatment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab combined with 2 cycles of platinum-doublet chemotherapy in patients with metastatic or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer should be considered a new option for this population.

Joyce F. Liu, MD, MPH, discusses findings from a phase 2 study with the Wee1 inhibitor adavosertib in patients with recurrent uterine serous carcinoma.

John Kuruvilla, MD, FRCPC, discusses findings from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-204 trial in Hodgkin lymphoma.

Jesus Berdeja, MD, discusses updated results from the ongoing phase 1b/2 CARTITUDE-1 trial (NCT03548207) in multiple myeloma.

Modest survival benefits were observed in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer who received the combination of pembrolizumab and etoposide plus platinum compared with patients who received EP and placebo.