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Brigatinib demonstrated sustained improvements in overall and intracranial progression-free survival and health-related quality of life compared with crizotinib in patients with ALK-positive advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Plinabulin was found to be a more favorable option for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia compared with pegfilgrastim during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, discusses the pivotal trials that have led to the regulatory approvals of the PARP inhibitors olaparib and rucaparib in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and DNA repair mutations.

Benjamin P. Levy, MD, discusses the role of the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib in BRAF V600E-mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

Andre Goy, MD, MS, discusses how matching the right treatment with the right patient resides at the heart of precision medicine, but with continued interest in pursuing the molecular milieu of cancers, precision medicine has the potential to better inform pre- and post-cancer interventions as well.

Despite efforts to advance the precision oncology portfolio for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by categorizing subtypes of the molecularly heterogenous disease, developing treatment routes for these alternate forms presents an uphill battle.

Although frontline chemoimmunotherapy regimens have been the gold standard for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia for many years, the advent of BTK inhibitors and other novel drugs has moved the field toward adopting chemotherapy-free options for patients in this setting.

Efforts to leverage targeted therapy and immunotherapy, which have been approved modalities in advanced non–small cell lung cancer, are leading to improved survival in patients with advanced and earlier-stage disease.

Andre Goy, MD, MS, discusses updates in precision medicine. 

Natalie I. U. Vokes, MD, discusses the rise of predictive genomic biomarkers in oncology.

Over the past decade in gastrointestinal cancer treatment, the acknowledgement that cancer is heterogeneous and likely polyclonal has prompted a shift from gene testing for some patients, to many patients.

Natalie I. U. Vokes, MD, discusses investigative biomarkers of response to checkpoint inhibitors in the field of oncology.

With more than 4 years of follow-up, the health-related quality of life of men with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer receiving androgen deprivation therapy was shown to be maintained with the addition of apalutamide.

Andrew B. Nixon, PhD, ​MBA, discusses the role of microsatellite instability in cancer.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, discusses findings from the subgroup analyses of JAVELIN Bladder 100 in advanced urothelial cancer.

Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, discusses the need to develop additional therapies for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Erika P. Hamilton, MD, discusses ​the final overall survival results from the ​randomized, phase 2 nextMONARCH trial in patients with hormone receptor–positive​, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Continuous administration of the novel tubulin inhibitor VERU-111 proved to be safe and demonstrated antitumor activity, evidenced by prostate-specific antigen reductions, objective tumor responses, and durable activity, in men with previously treated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Ronan J. Kelly, MD, MBA, discusses the rationale to conduct the phase 3 CheckMate-577 study in esophageal or gastroesophageal junction cancer.

The addition of atezolizumab to a backbone comprised of bevacizumab and chemotherapy failed to significantly improve progression-free survival in patients with newly diagnosed stage III/IV ovarian cancer.

Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, discusses the results of the randomized phase 3 ASCENT trial in previously treated, metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Robert L. Coleman, MD, FACOG, FACS, discusses the clinical implications of the phase 2 innovaTV 204/GOG-3023/ENGOT-cx6 trial in women with previously treated recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.

Findings from the noncomparative, phase 2, biomarker-driven BIONIKK trial demonstrated clinical evidence to support the use of molecularly-directed frontline therapy as means to enrich responses in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Cemiplimab-rwlc monotherapy led to a significant improvement in overall survival and progression-free survival versus platinum-doublet chemotherapy as first-line therapy in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer with PD-L1 expression on at least 50% of their tumor cell.

The feasibility of treatment with trabectedin in combination with durvalumab as treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic pretreated soft tissue sarcoma was demonstrated in the phase 1b TRAMUNE trial.

Tisotumab vedotin demonstrated an objective response rate of 24% in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic cervical cancer who were previously treated with doublet chemotherapy and bevacizumab, if eligible.

Pembrolizumab monotherapy prolonged progression-free survival in selected rare sarcoma subtypes, supporting the immune checkpoint inhibitor’s ability to improve outcomes across histotypes.

Weekly dose-dense chemotherapy is not superior to standard 3 weekly chemotherapy for patients with epithelial ovarian cancer when it comes to progression-free survival and overall survival, though the regimen is safe and effective.

Frontline fulvestrant in combination with palbociclib demonstrated an improvement in progression-free survival at 1 year compared with fulvestrant and placebo alone in patients with endocrine-sensitive hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, which met the primary end point of the phase 2 FLIPPER trial.

Osimertinib reduced the risk for central nervous system death or progression by 82% in patients with early-stage EGFR mutated non–small cell lung cancer following complete tumor resection.