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The addition of durvalumab to chemotherapy prior to surgery, followed by adjuvant durvalumab, did not provide a clear clinical benefit in patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer harboring an EGFR mutation, according to data from the phase 3 AEGEAN trial.

Early antitumor activity has been observed in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer treated with the combination of sacituzumab govitecan-hziy and pembrolizumab in the first-line setting.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has granted an orphan drug designation to tagraxofusp-erzs for the treatment of patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm.

The Center for Drug Evaluation, of the National Medical Products Administration in China, has granted breakthrough therapy designation to repotrectinib for use in patients with advanced solid tumors harboring a NTRK gene fusion who experienced disease progression after TKI treatment.

The Center for Drug Evaluation, of the National Medical Products Administration in China, has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to savolitinib for use in patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric cancer or gastroesophageal junction with MET amplification in whom at least 2 lines of standard therapy have failed.

Great Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has approved subcutaneous atezolizumab for all indications in which the intravenous formulation of the drug has been approved, including select types of lung, bladder, breast, and liver cancers.

The European Commission has approved pembrolizumab for use in combination with trastuzumab, fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adult patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic, HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 with a combined positive score of at least 1.

The European Medicines Agency has granted orphan drug designation to mitazalimab for use in patients with pancreatic cancer.

Sovleplenib provided a statistically significant and clinically meaningful increase in durable response rate over placebo in adult patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia in China.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare has approved the combination of olaparib plus abiraterone acetate and prednisone or prednisolone for the treatment of adult patients with BRCA-mutated castration-resistant prostate cancer with distant metastasis.

The National Medical Products Administration of China has approved sunvozertinib for use in adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations whose disease has progressed on or following platinum-based chemotherapy.

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare has approved fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for use in adult patients with unresectable advanced or recurrent, HER2-mutant non–small cell lung cancer that has progressed following chemotherapy.

The European Commission has approved single-agent nivolumab for use in the adjuvant treatment of adult and adolescent patients aged 12 years or older who have stage IIB or IIC melanoma and who have undergone complete resection.

The European Commission has granted conditional marketing authorization to talquetamab-tgvs monotherapy for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least 3 prior therapies and have demonstrated disease progression on the last therapy.

The European Commission has approved a Type II variation application for teclistamab, providing the option for a reduced dosing frequency of 1.5 mg/kg every 2 weeks in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who have achieved a complete response or better for a minimum of 6 months.

The European Medicines Agency has accepted a marketing authorization application seeking the approval of odronextamab for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma or relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who have progressed after at least 2 prior systemic therapies.

Harry Gill, MD, discusses the importance of offering patients with APL an entirely oral treatment regimen, key efficacy findings from this trial, and the tolerability of this regimen.

Treatment with the folate receptor–α antibody-drug conjugate BAT8006 led to responses with a manageable safety profile in patients with advanced solid tumors, including ovarian cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer.

China’s Center for Drug Evaluation of the National Medical Products Administration has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to glecirasib for the treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer harboring a KRAS G12C mutation and who have progressed after frontline standard-of-care treatment.

The European Commission has approved piflufolastat (18F) for the detection of prostate-specific membrane antigen–positive lesions with positron emission tomography in adults with prostate cancer.

The China National Medical Products Administration has accepted and granted priority review to the biologics license application seeking the approval of loncastuximab tesirine-lpyl for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma following at least 2 prior lines of systemic therapy.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use issued a negative opinion on the conditional marketing authorization application for adagrasib for the treatment of patients with KRAS G12C–mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of JZP458 for use in combination with multi-agent chemotherapy for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 1 month and older with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma who developed hypersensitivity or silent inactivation to Escherichia coli–derived asparaginase.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of a Type II variation for teclistamab in the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least 3 prior therapies.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended conditional marketing authorization of talquetamab for use as a single agent in adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have previously received at least 3 therapies.

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.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended approval of nivolumab monotherapy for the adjuvant treatment of patients at least 12 years of age with completely resected stage IIB or IIC melanoma.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has issued a positive opinion recommending conditional marketing authorization to epcoritamab monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma after 2 or more lines of systemic therapy.

China’s National Medical Products Administration has accepted a supplemental new drug application seeking the approval of toripalimab in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

The European Medicines Agency has accepted a marketing authorization application seeking the approval of zolbetuximab for first-line treatment of patients with Claudin18.2-positive, HER2-negative, unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.