Latest Conference Articles

Mansoor Raza Mirza, MD, chief oncologist in the Department of Oncology in Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark, and medical director of the Nordic Society of Gynecologic Oncology-Clinical Trial Unit, discusses phase I results of a trial exploring the combination of niraparib (Zejula) and bevacizumab (Avastin) in patients with platinum-sensitive epithelial ovarian cancer.

Toni K. Choueiri, MD, clinical director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, senior physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the significance of the phase II CABOSUN trial, which explored cabozantinib (Cabometyx) as a frontline therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Expanding surveillance after surgery for early-stage non–small cell lung cancer from chest x-ray to follow-up with PET-CT scan did not improve overall survival.

A majority of patients with advanced melanoma responded to the combination of pembrolizumab and the investigational IDO1 inhibitor epacadostat.

The addition of abemaciclib to anastrozole or letrozole reduced the risk of progression or death by 46% compared with the non-steroidal aromatase inhibitors alone for previously untreated patients with HER2-negative, HR-positive advanced breast cancer.

More than one-third of patients with resectable giant cell tumor of bone avoided surgery and nearly half had less morbidity with surgery when treated with denosumab (Xgeva).

Nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) monotherapy has efficacy in patients with pretreated advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer that is not improved by the addition of CC-486.

Turning a nonimmunogenic (“cold”) tumor into an immunogenic (“hot”) tumor appears feasible in patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer, thereby improving sensitivity to immune therapy with nivolumab.

The combination of encorafenib and binimetinib demonstrated significant improvements in PFS compared with single-agent vemurafenib or encorafenib for patients with BRAF-mutant advanced melanoma.

Emanuela Palmerini, MD, Prometeo Laboratory: Clinical and Experimental Research Contract, Chemotherapy for Rare Musculoskeletal Tumors Department, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, discusses the long-term efficacy of denosumab (Xgeva) in patients with giant cell tumor of bone.

Jonathan Ledermann, MD, professor of medical oncology, UCL Cancer Institute, London, United Kingdom, discusses the phase III results of the ARIEL3 trial in ovarian cancer during the 2017 ESMO Congress.

A liquid biopsy that measures tumor mutational burden showed promise as an aid for predicting benefit in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with a checkpoint inhibitor.

Continuous treatment with nivolumab until disease progression was associated with superior progression-free survival compared with a 1-year fixed duration treatment for patients with previously treated advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

The PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab improved median progression-free survival by 11.2 months compared with placebo for patients with locally advanced, unresectable stage III lung cancer who had not progressed following chemoradiotherapy.

Frontline osimertinib improved median progression-free survival by 18.9 months, representing a 54% reduction in the risk of progression or death compared with standard therapy for patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung caner.

Taselisib added to standard letrozole (Femara) improved the objective response rate compared to letrozole with a placebo in postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive and HER2-negative early breast cancer.

Treatment with alectinib (Alecensa) demonstrated promising efficacy for patients with ALK-translocated non–small cell lung cancer with central nervous system metastases in both the first- and second-line setting.

Maintenance treatment with the PARP inhibitor rucaparib improved median progression-free survival by 11.2 months compared with placebo for patients with BRCA-mutant platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.

Bastian Schilling, MD, University of Wuerzburg, discusses different types of ocular melanoma and the importance of distinguishing this subtype.

Adil Daud, MD, a clinical professor, Department of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses potential combinations of immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with melanoma.

Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) provides a long-term survival benefit in both ipilimumab-naïve and ipilimumab-treated patients with advanced melanoma.

Guillem Argiles, MD, staff member, Gastrointestinal Malignancies Division, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, discusses a carcinoembryonic antigen T-cell bispecific antibody.

Bert O’Neil, MD, the Joseph W. and Jackie J. Cusick Professor of Oncology, professor of medicine, and director of the Phase I and Gastrointestinal Oncology Programs at Indiana University, discusses napabucasin with FOLFIRI and bevacizumab (Avastin) in colorectal cancer.

In a central evaluation for surgical treatment options in the FIRE-3 study results, investigators set out to determine the number of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who had resectable disease during systemic first-line therapy.

Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, FACP, associate director for Adult Oncology and co-leader of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses immunotherapy in gastrointestinal cancers.

Hans-Joachim Schmoll, MD, head, Department of Oncology and Hematology, associate professor, Internal Medicine, Hematology/ Oncology, University Hospital Halle, discusses the results of the CHARTA study in colorectal cancer.

The novel stemness inhibitor napabucasin in combination with different standard chemotherapy backbones demonstrated promising activity in metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma and metastatic colorectal cancer.

CEA-TCB showed a favorable safety profile and promising efficacy in patients with heavily-pretreated microsatellite stable metastatic colorectal cancer, with enhanced efficacy when combined with atezolizumab.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors against PD-1 and PD-L1 are showing promise across clinical trials for patients with Merkel cell carcinoma.

Aparna Parikh, MD, discusses the potential impact of liquid biopsies in overcoming resistance to targeted therapies in gastrointestinal cancer.