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Capivasertib plus fulvestrant provided a clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival over fulvestrant alone in patients with hormone receptor–positive advanced breast cancer, including those who previously received a CDK4/6 inhibitor, chemotherapy in the advanced setting, or had baseline liver metastases.
The combination of OP-1250 and palbociclib produced a tolerable safety profile and elicited tumor responses and disease stabilization in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.
The frontline combination of ribociclib and letrozole significantly prolonged overall survival over letrozole alone in a subset of patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer who had de novo metastatic disease or late recurrence from neoadjuvant therapy, according to data from an exploratory analysis of the phase 3 MONALEESA-2 trial.
The addition of atezolizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy generated numerical improvements in event-free survival, disease-free survival, and overall survival compared with chemotherapy plus placebo in patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.
Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy produced comparable efficacy outcomes for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who had a higher incidence of grade 2 or 3 diarrhea and neutropenia vs patients in the overall population, according to a post hoc analysis of the phase 3 ASCENT trial presented at the 2023 ESMO Breast Cancer Annual Congress.
Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki was associated with better efficacy outcomes compared with treatment of physician’s choice in patients with HER2-low, estrogen receptor-low metastatic breast cancer, according to findings from a subgroup analysis of the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast04 study.
Administration of trilaciclib followed by sacituzumab govitecan showed early signals of efficacy and may reduce the incidence of adverse effects in heavily pretreated patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, according to preliminary results from a phase 2 study.
Olaparib provided consistent clinical benefit in patients with germline BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, irrespective of estrogen receptor expression level.
Adjuvant abemaciclib with endocrine therapy led to a tolerable safety profile in patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, high-risk, early breast cancer,
Treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan resulted in lower exposure-adjusted incidence rates per patient-year of treatment-emergent adverse effects compared with treatment of physician’s choice in patients with HER2-low unresectable and/or metastatic breast cancer, according to safety analysis from the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast04 trial.
Elacestrant maintained the quality of life for patients with metastatic breast cancer for at least 6 treatment cycles, according to patient reported outcomes.
Sohail Dhanji, MD, discusses the effect of preoperative hypertension on survival outcomes in patients undergoing nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma, and the importance of hypertension control in this population.
Eric A. Singer, MD, discusses the use of systemic pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.
Findings from the phase 3 ZIRCON trial showed that imaging with 89Zr-DFO-girentuximab could improve the identification and risk stratification of patients with renal tumors.
Apalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy with or without abiraterone acetate and prednisone improved prostate-specific antigen progression-free survival in patients with biochemically relapsed prostate cancer, according to long-term follow-up data from the phase 3 PRESTO trial.
Sia Daneshmand MD, discusses preliminary results from the phase 2 SunRISe-1 trial (NCT04640623) in patients with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin.
Fred Saad, MD, FRCS, discusses prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response and time to PSA progression with the combination of abiraterone acetate and olaparib in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Treatment with pembrolizumab monotherapy resulted in stable long-term disease-free survival rates in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
Treatment with TAR-200 produced complete responses and was well tolerated in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to preliminary data from the phase 2b SunRISe-1 trial.
Nivolumab following radical surgery continued to display a benefit in disease-free survival in patients with muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma and muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
Treatment with sintilimab in combination with axitinib resulted in tumor shrinkage with tolerable adverse effects in patients with advanced fumarate hydratase–deficient renal cell carcinoma.
Specific comorbidities were linked with complications following partial nephrectomy, compared with radical nephrectomy, in patients with T1b to T2 renal cell carcinoma.
Hypertension was found to be an independent risk factor for worse survival outcomes in patients with upper tract urothelial cancer undergoing radical nephroureterectomy.
A high body mass index was linked with improved overall survival in patients with renal cell carcinoma undergoing radical nephrectomy.
Benjamin H. Lowentritt, MD, FACS, discusses prostate-specific antigen response and time to castration resistance in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer started on apalutamide, enzalutamide, or abiraterone acetate.
Roger Li, MD, discusses phase 2 data with the combination of CG0070 and pembrolizumab in patients with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin.
Treatment with the androgen receptor inhibitor enzalutamide plus leuprolide led to a significant reduction in the risk of metastasis or death compared with placebo plus leuprolide in patients with nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer with high-risk biochemical recurrence.
Patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer treated with the androgen receptor–signaling inhibitor apalutamide achieved prostate-specific antigen responses that trended higher and rates of progression to castration resistance that trended lower than those receiving enzalutamide or abiraterone acetate/
A post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 ARASENS trial demonstrated that the addition of darolutamide to androgen deprivation therapy and docetaxel produced deep and durable prostate-specific antigen responses in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.
A subgroup analysis of the phase 3 ARASENS trial showed that darolutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy elicited an overall survival benefit in North American patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.
