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Treatment with narsoplimab (OMS721) led to complete responses, improved laboratory markers, and encouraging 100-day survival rates in patients diagnosed with hematopoietic stem cell transplant-thrombotic microangiopathy.

Treatment with the CAR T-cell product lisocabtagene maraleucel led to high response rates, with durable complete responses, in transplant-ineligible patients with relapsed/refractory aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma who had poor prognostic features.

Parameswaran Hari, MD, MRCP, discusses the role of minimal residual disease in multiple myeloma.

Luciano J. Costa, MD, PhD, discusses the safety results of CC-93269 in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Higher levels of the serum biomarkers ST2 and REG3α were associated with increased incidence of graft-vs-host disease and increased risk for transplant-related mortality in patients who have undergone haploidentical stem-cell transplantation with post-transplant cyclophosphamide.

The novel C3 inhibitor pegcetacoplan led to a significant improvement in hemoglobin level and other clinical outcomes at week 16 versus the current standard of care, eculizumab in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

Ruxolitinib (Jakafi) induced a strong, durable response across several subgroups of patients with steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease.

The triplet regimen of ibrutinib, venetoclax, and obinutuzumab demonstrated encouraging response rates with an acceptable safety profile in treatment-naïve patients with high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Imetelstat demonstrated meaningful and durable transfusion independence in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome that are non-del(5q), dependent on red blood cell transfusion, and are relapsed/refractory to treatment with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents.

Radiation therapy can be omitted in patients with newly diagnosed early-stage unfavorable Hodgkin lymphoma without sacrificing efficacy.

Saad Usmani, MD, discusses research with teclistamab (JNJ-64007957) in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program.

The highly selective second-generation TKI alectinib demonstrated a clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival compared with crizotinib in patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

The oral, highly selective MET inhibitor tepotinib demonstrated durable clinical activity in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who harbor a MET exon 14 skipping mutation identified through liquid or tissue biopsy.

The use of cabazitaxel over abiraterone acetate or enzalutamide may continue as a standard of care in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who were previously treated with docetaxel and either of those 2 androgen receptor-targeted agents.

The combination of cabozantinib and atezolizumab showed clinically meaningful activity in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Darolutamide (Nubeqa) plus androgen deprivation therapy led to a 31% reduction in the risk of death compared with placebo and ADT in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.​​

The phase 3 IMvigor010 trial comparing adjuvant atezolizumab with observation in patients with muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma failed to meet its primary endpoint of disease-free survival.

Patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who were treated with cabozantinib (Cabometyx) following both immunotherapy and non-IO regimens demonstrated promising responses.

Pyrotinib plus capecitabine achieved a better progression-free survival than lapatinib plus capecitabine in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer previously treated with trastuzumab and chemotherapy.

In the phase 2 trial EMPOWER-CSCC-1, up to 3 years of follow-up showed continued response rates, and a clinically meaningful survival and duration of response for cemiplimab-rwlc in patients with advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

Baseline and posttreatment circulating tumor DNA positivity was associated with worse radiologic progression-free survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The combination of pembrolizumab and axitinib continued to demonstrate a clinically significant improvement in progression-free and overall survival compared with sunitinib in patients with previously untreated, advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Brian A. Van Tine, MD, PhD, discusses next steps with ADP-A2M4 SPEAR T cells in advanced solid tumors.

Combining the anti–PD-1 agent tislelizumab with chemotherapy improved progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone as a frontline treatment in Chinese patients with advanced squamous non–small cell lung cancer.

The addition of durvalumab to standard chemotherapy continued to demonstrate an improvement in overall survival for patients with treatment-naïve extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

The combination of cabozantinib (Cabometyx) and atezolizumab (Tecentriq) demonstrated promising objective responses in patients with urothelial carcinoma who progressed after receiving platinum-containing chemotherapy.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel; Yescarta) demonstrated significant and durable clinical benefit as well as a manageable safety profile in patients with relapsed or refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) demonstrated promising clinical activity in patients with HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer, as well as in those with HER2-positive advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Teclistamab (JNJ-64007957) appeared to be a safe and efficacious treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Results from the phase III SPARTAN trial showed that apalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy significantly improved overall survival when compared with ADT plus placebo in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.