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January 28, 2021 - The NeoADAURA trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of neoadjuvant osimertinib, as a single agent or in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy compared with chemotherapy alone, in patients with resectable, stage II-IIIB non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor EGFR mutations.
January 28, 2021- Patients with non-small cell lung cancer who experience immune-related adverse events may have better survival outcomes than those without.
January 28, 2021 - The combination of osimertinib and savolitinib may be able to overcome MET resistance in patients with EGFR-mutant, MET-amplified or -overexpressed non–small cell lung cancer, including those who have previously progressed on a prior EGFR TKI.
January 28, 2021 - Atezolizumab demonstrated continued clinically meaningful benefits in overall survival, progression-free survival, overall response rate, and duration of response compared with chemotherapy in patients with PD-L1–high wild-type nonsquamous or squamous non–small cell lung cancer.
January 28, 2021 - Adding BMS-986012, anti–fucosyl-GM1 monoclonal antibody, to nivolumab demonstrated promising results in the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory small cell lung cancer who did not receive previous checkpoint inhibitor therapy.
January 28, 2021 - Rapid, high, and uniform brain exposure was seen with [11C]osimertinib, followed by a reduction in total brain metastases volume with oral administration of the EGFR TKI in patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer and brain metastases.
January 28, 2021 - NRG1 fusions are detectable in patients with non–small cell lung cancer, providing a rationale to perform larger, retrospective studies assessing therapeutic outcomes in patients with NRG1 fusion–positive tumors and evaluate afatinib in this patient subgroup.
January 28, 2021 - Immuno-oncology therapies provided significant potential health gains for both patients and the population, although age should be taken into account to improve accuracy and avoid bias.
January 28, 2021 — Frontline pembrolizumab continued to demonstrate clinically meaningful improvements in overall survival, overall response rate, and time to progression on next-line therapy compared with platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic PD-L1–positive non–small cell lung cancer without sensitizing EGFR or ALK mutations.
January 28, 2021 - Pembrolizumab continued to demonstrate a clinically meaningful improvement in overall and progression-free survival, compared with docetaxel, in patients with previously treated, PD-L1–positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer after more than 5 years of follow-up.
January 28, 2021 - The addition of apatinib to single agent chemotherapy showed promising efficacy and was found to be well tolerated in patients with pretreated advanced small cell lung cancer.
January 28, 2021 - Although survivors and patients with lung cancer felt that they were involved in the treatment decision-making process, nearly half of them reported that they knew what their treatment options were before making a decision.
January 28, 2021 — Pembrolizumab in combination with chemotherapy continued to show improved overall survival and progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with previously untreated metastatic nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.
Single-agent pembrolizumab demonstrated durable antitumor activity among patients with treatment-naïve hepatocellular carcinoma, suggesting that the checkpoint inhibitor may have additional utility in this space, according to findings from a phase 2 trial presented during the 2021 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
January 17, 2021 - Pembrolizumab demonstrated maintained numerical improvements in overall survival and progression-free survival compared with placebo in patients with previously treated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.
January 17, 2021 - The combination of atezolizumab and bevacizumab continued to display improved survival compared with sorafenib in previously untreated patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.
January 17, 2021 - Axitinib plus octreotide LAR failed to demonstrate a significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) compared with placebo plus octreotide LAR in patients with advanced G1-2 extra-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
January 17, 2021 - Infigratinib was found to be associated with encouraging clinical activity with a manageable safety profile in patients with chemotherapy-refractory cholangiocarcinoma whose tumors harbor FGFR2 fusions.
January 17, 2021 — Ivosidenib tablets led to a 21% reduction in the risk of death compared with placebo in previously treated patients with IDH1-mutant cholangiocarcinoma, according to the final overall survival analysis of the phase 3 ClarIDHy trial.
James J. Harding, MD, discusses the results of the ongoing, phase 2 SUMMIT basket trial in HER2-mutant advanced biliary tract cancers.
Andrew Zhu, MD, PhD, discusses the final overall survival results from the phase 3 ClarIDHy trial in previously treated patients with IDH1-mutated cholangiocarcinoma.
January 16, 2021 - Trifluridine/tipiracil, when used in combination with bevacizumab, led to an improvement in overall survival over capecitabine/bevacizumab in the frontline treatment of patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer who are not eligible for standard chemotherapy.
Zev A. Wainberg, MD, of University of California, Los Angeles, discusses the results of the phase 2 FIGHT trial (NCT03343301) in FGFR2b-positive gastric/gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer.
January 16, 2021 - Lenvatinib monotherapy was found to be effective in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States.
Vivek Subbiah, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the clinical activity of pralsetinib (Gavreto) in RET fusion-positive pancreatic cancer and cholangiocarcinoma.
January 16, 2021 - Mean daily step count during the first 2 weeks of treatment with SM-88 was found to correlate with overall self-reported quality of life in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
January 16, 2021 - Health-related quality of life during an 18-week period proved to be similar over for patients with esophageal cancer treated with either pembrolizumab or placebo added to chemotherapy.
January 16, 2021 - Frontline use of pembrolizumab monotherapy significantly improved progression-free survival, while demonstrating superior safety, compared with chemotherapy in patients with microsatellite-instability high/mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer.
