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The anti-PD-1 antibody balstilimab in combination with the anti-CTLA-4 antibody zalifrelimab exhibited impressive response rates, duration of response, and overall survival in patients with previously treated recurrent/metastatic cervical cancer.

Jason J. Luke, MD, FACP, discusses the results of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-716 trial in high-risk stage II melanoma.

The frontline combination of nivolumab and chemotherapy upheld its improvement in progression-free and overall survival vs chemotherapy alone with longer follow-up of patients with advanced gastric, gastroesophageal junction, or esophageal cancer, according to data from the phase 3 CheckMate-649 trial.

Tisotumab vedotin elicited significant responses without prohibitive toxicity in combination with carboplatin as frontline therapy, as well as in combination with pembrolizumab as second- or third-line therapy in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.

Adagrasib alone or in combination with cetuximab elicited encouraging antitumor activity and safety in heavily pretreated patients with KRAS G12C–mutant colorectal cancer, according to findings from the phase 1/2 KRYSTAL-1 trial.

When added to androgen-deprivation therapy, abiraterone acetate and prednisolone with or without enzalutamide for 2 years improved survival outcomes in men with high-risk nonmetastatic prostate cancer.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, discusses the overall survival data with first-line pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy as a treatment for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, as reported in the phase 3 KEYNOTE-355 trial.

Chan Cheah, MBBS, discusses the results of a study evaluating the efficacy and safety of TG-1701 alone and in combination with ublituximab and umbralisib in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Alexey V. Danilov, MD, PhD, discusses the efficacy of entospletinib plus obinutuzumab in relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Prednisone added to androgen-deprivation therapy plus docetaxel improved radiographic progression-free survival and overall survival in patients with de novo metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

Sabizabulin was well tolerated and associated with significant and durable objective tumor responses in patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.

A group of patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer achieved favorable outcomes after receiving treatment with nivolumab in combination with rucaparib.

Switching maintenance to darolutamide following taxane-based therapy with at least 1 novel hormonal agent showed statistically significant but clinically modest improvement in radiographic progression-free survival and event-free survival in patents with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The combination of ribociclib and letrozole demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful overall survival benefit compared with letrozole alone in the first-line setting for postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, according to results from the phase 3 MONALEESA-2 trial.

Circulating tumor DNA was a better predictor for survival than RECIST 1.1 for patients with previously treated, HLA-A*02:01-positive metastatic uveal melanoma assigned to tebentafusp.

The antibody drug conjugate datopotamab deruxtecan demonstrated safe antitumor activity in patients with advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with actionable genomic alterations.

Optical genome mapping was found to effectively detect most abnormalities defined by standard methods, such as chromosome banding analysis, chromosomal microarrays, and fluorescence in situ hybridization, as well as several additional abnormalities of unknown clinical significance, in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Vic-trastuzumab duocarmazine yielded an improved progression-free survival over standard physician’s choice chemotherapy in patients with pretreated HER2-positive locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

The phase 1b COSMIC-021 trial showed clinically meaningful activity with cabozantinib plus atezolizumab in patients with locally advanced or metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have been previously treated, including patients with high-risk features.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki demonstrated a clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival vs standard of care trastuzumab emtansine for patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Marina Garassino, MD, discusses the results of subgroup analyses of the phase 2 VISION trial in MET exon 14 skipping mutation–positive non-small cell lung cancer.

The use of a cell-free DNA–based minimal residual disease assay demonstrated feasibility and highly concordant results compared with 4-color flow cytometry and improved MRD detection in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who were treated with time-limited venetoclax, acalabrutinib, and obinutuzumab.

The addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab significantly improved survival and response rates in patients with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer.

Adjuvant pembrolizumab led to a significant reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death compared with placebo in patients with resected, high-risk stage II melanoma.

Pembrolizumab plus olaparib may improve prostate-specific antigen response rate in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer regardless of homologous recombination repair mutation status.

The combination of pembrolizumab plus olaparib produced promising antitumor activity in men with molecularly unselected docetaxel-pretreated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Poziotinib, administered once daily at 16 mg, induced a median tumor reduction of 35% in patients with treatment-naïve non–small cell lung cancer harboring HER2 exon 20 mutations, according to findings from cohort 4 of the ongoing phase 2 ZENITH20 trial.

The addition of relatlimab to nivolumab prolonged benefit beyond initial treatment and first progression and reduced the risk of progression or death after the next line of systemic therapy vs nivolumab alone in previously untreated patients with metastatic or unresectable melanoma.

The combination of osimertinib and bevacizumab did not produce a superior progression-free survival benefit vs osimertinib alone in patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer harboring an EGFR mutation.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki showcased robust and durable antitumor activity in previously treated patients with HER2-mutant non–small cell lung cancer.