Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting

Larotrectinib produced rapid and durable responses and a high DCR in pediatric patients with TRK fusion–positive primary central nervous system tumors.

Timothy Gershon, MD, PhD, discusses an analysis of patients with NF1-PN who achieved deep responses with mirdametinib in the phase 2b ReNeu study.

Jordan R. Hansford, MD, discusses health-related quality-of-life outcomes with tovorafenib in pediatric patients with BRAF-altered low-grade glioma.

Updated INDIGO data reveal that vorasidenib continues to showcase improved efficacy over placebo in patients with IDH1/2-mutated diffuse glioma.

Tovorafenib generated durable drug holiday responses in pediatric patients with BRAF-altered relapsed/refractory low-grade glioma.

Early safety findings from the phase 2b RESTORE study (NCT03862430) of NanO2 plus radiation and temozolomide in newly diagnosed glioblastoma were shared.

J. Bradley Elder, MD, discusses blinded early-safety data from a phase 2b trial of IGV-001 in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma.

Rimas V. Lukas, MD, discusses the efficacy of eflornithine plus lomustine in recurrent IDH-mutant anaplastic astrocytoma per 2021 WHO diagnostic criteria.

IGV-001, an autologous cell immunotherapy, demonstrated an acceptable safety profile in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma.

Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, FACP, Miller Family Endowed Chair in Neuro-Oncology and Head of Operations, Burkhardt Brain Tumor NeuroOncology Center, discuses a new classification system for brain metastases.

Antonio Iavarone, MD, professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neurology, Columbia University, Institute for Cancer Genetics, discusses the role of the ID2 protein in patients with malignant brain tumors.

Researchers are hoping that a proposed phase II study exploring use of the Optune system in patients with recurrent grade III malignant glioma will expand the indications for the tumor treating fields (TTFields) device beyond its current FDA-approved use in recurrent grade IV glioblastoma.

Treatment with nivolumab and radiotherapy with or without concurrent temozolomide was well tolerated and showed promising signs of efficacy for patients with newly-diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme.

The PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab generated durable responses in bevacizumab-naïve patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme.

Treatment with AG-120 at an established dose of 500 mg induced a stable disease rate of 83% and a minor response rate of 9% for patients with non-enhancing IDH1-mutated glioma.

Daniel O'Connell, MD, University of California at Los Angeles, discusses a phase II trial testing the benefits of tumor treating fields with Optune for bevacizumab-naive patients with grade III malignant glioma.

Updated data from the phase III EF-14 study showed that adding Optune to temozolomide improved overall survival by 4.8 months compared with temozolomide alone in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme.

Pembrolizumab had a 6-month progression-free survival rate of 44% and a manageable safety profile for patients with recurrent PD-L1-positive glioblastoma multiforme.

Findings from the phase II trials KEYNOTE-028 of pembrolizumab and MEDI4736 (durvalumab) point to a role for checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme, based on encouraging efficacy signals and safety data with the two agents.

Combination therapy with ibudilast and temozolomide for glioblastoma multiforme increased apoptosis and prolonged survival by significantly reducing macrophage inhibitory factor and receptor CD74 expression.

A phase I trial of the antibody drug conjugate ABT-414 has shown promising results for the treatment of patients with EGFR-amplified, recurrent glioblastoma.

Martin J. van den Bent, MD, ‎Head Neuro-Oncology Unit at Erasmus MC Cancer Center, discusses what the next trials will be for ABT-414, anti-EGFR antibody-drug conjugate under exploration for patients with brain cancer.

Arie Perry, MD, chief of Neuropathology, University of California, San Francisco, discusses the potential implications of the new World Health Organization central nervous system tumor classifications.

The gene for an anticancer drug was successfully transduced in high-grade gliomas, which resulted in an improvement in overall survival, according to data from a phase I trial of Toca 511.

Michael Lim, MD, Director of Brain Tumor Immunotherapy, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses toxicities associated with checkpoint inhibitors for the treatment of glioblastoma.

Mark R. Gilbert, MD, senior investigator, chief, Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, discusses the use of precision medicine in treating patients with glioblastoma.

The deployment of precision medicine to develop safe and effective therapies to treat malignant brain tumors is an effort that poses both opportunities and challenges.