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Pembrolizumab monotherapy led notable antitumor activity with manageable toxicity in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive, papillary high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Yago L. Nieto, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses findings from a phase 2 trial investigating panobinostat (Farydak), gemcitabine, busulfan, and melphalan plus autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) in patients with high-risk or relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Samer A. Srour, MB ChB, MS, discusses findings with Orca-Q, an investigational therapy consisting of enriched CD34+ stem cells plus T-cell subsets, in patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies eligible for myeloablative conditioning and allogeneic stem cell transplant.

The PARP inhibitor rucaparib improved median radiographic progression-free survival by 4.8 months compared with physician’s choice of therapy for men with BRCA-altered metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The combination of niraparib, abiraterone acetate, and prednisone produced prolonged survival and delayed progression rates in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer harboring homologous recombination repair gene alterations.

Rahul Aggarwal, MD, discusses the association between baseline characteristics and prostate-specific antigen progression-free survival in patients with high-risk biochemically relapsed prostate cancer from the phase 3 PRESTO trial.

Neeraj Agarwal, MD, discusses the efficacy of talazoparib plus enzalutamide in first-line metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Radium-223 demonstrated efficacy with low rates of treatment-related adverse effects and treatment discontinuation in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer that metastasized to the bones.

Treatment with the anti–Trop-2 antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan elicited an objective response rate of 32% in platinum-ineligible patients with metastatic urothelial cancer following progression on an immune checkpoint inhibitor, according to the primary analysis of TROPHY-U-01 cohort 2.

Tumor mutational burden and alterations in CDKN2A, CDKN2B, and MTAP were among several biomarkers that were predictive of response to enfortumab vedotin in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma, according to findings from a retrospective analysis.

Because of an economic burden on the healthcare system occurring through the per-patient cost of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant, novel treatments to replace transplant and prevent graft-vs-host disease are necessary.

The presence of cytopenias did not affect the favorable and durable responses seen with ruxolitinib vs best available therapy in patients with steroid-refractory acute graft-vs-host disease.

Transurethral resection of bladder tumor followed by gemcitabine, cisplatin, and nivolumab led to stringent clinical complete responses in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Early treatment with ruxolitinib led to high response rates in patients with steroid refractory acute graft-vs-host-disease, although benefits with ruxolitinib vs best available therapy were observed regardless of the timing of ruxolitinib administration.

A study did not find a correlation between the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ruxolitinib for the treatment of patients 2 years of age and younger with graft-vs-host disease.

Orca-Q when using myeloablative conditioning with only tacrolimus monotherapy in the haploidentical stem cell transplant setting had acceptable safety and resulted in encouraging outcomes for patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies.

CD22-directed CAR T-cell therapy generated high complete response rates and manageable safety in heavily pretreated patients with large B-cell lymphoma who relapsed following CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy.

Checkpoint inhibitor–based salvage regimens significantly reduced the likelihood that patients with relapsed/refractory classic Hodgkin lymphoma undergoing transplant would need further salvage therapy vs conventional salvage regimens.

Orca-T produced a 100% overall survival rate in 8 patients with hematologic malignancies who received an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant with 7/8 non-permissive HLA mismatched donors.

Ruxolitinib induced clinically meaningful overall survival improvements by decreasing non-relapse mortality rates in patients with acute graft-vs-host-disease.

First-line treatment with itolizumab produced rapid, durable responses and favorable safety in patients with acute graft-vs-host disease.

Timing of severe symptom onset is the only distinct difference between late and classic acute graft-vs-host disease, and long-term outcomes were similar between the two types of disease.

Patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma treated with the CAR T-cell agent idecabtagene vicleucel had comparable efficacy and safety outcomes regardless of whether they had renal impairment, according to findings from a real-world study.

Matthew Frank, MD, PhD, discusses findings from a single-institution phase 1 trial investigating autologous CAR T cells targeting CD22 in adults with large B-cell lymphoma, including those who relapse after or are refractory to CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy.

Matthew Galsky, MD, discusses the key findings from extended follow-up of the phase 3 CheckMate-274 trial in urothelial cancer.

Andrea Necchi, MD, discusses updated analysis of cohort B in the phase 2 KEYNOTE-057 trial in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Darolutamide maintained an acceptable long-term safety profile in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, with approximately 30% of patients remaining on the treatment for at least 4 years

The final prespecified overall survival analysis of PROpel showed that the combination of abiraterone acetate plus olaparib sustained a trend toward improved efficacy vs standard-of-care abiraterone in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Sequencing treatment with Lutetium 177 PSMA-617 after radium-223 was safe and well tolerated and demonstrated similar overall survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer regardless of whether they received 177Lu-PSMA-617 within 6 months or after 6 months of completing radium-223.

Boris A. Hadaschik, MD, discusses a post-hoc analysis of subsequent therapies received by patients with prostate cancer treated with apalutamide during the phase 3 SPARTAN trial.