All Oncology News

In a 14-to-6 vote, the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted sufficient evidence has been provided to demonstrate the event-free survival benefit of eflornithine to reduce the risk of relapse in pediatric patients with high-risk neuroblastoma.

Rena D. Callahan, MD, discusses the current standards for breast cancer imaging modalities, the complexities of using bone biopsy, and the importance of continuing to study nonstandard imaging modalities to increase the accessibility of breast cancer imaging for metastatic disease.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has authorized the use of dostarlimab in combination with chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with mismatch repair-deficient/microsatellite instability–high primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

A Type II extension of indication application seeking the approval of amivantamab in combination with carboplatin and pemetrexed for the frontline treatment of adult patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer and activating EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations has been submitted to the European Medicines Agency.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC is pleased to welcome hematologists and medical oncologists Bahaa Amer, MD and Savan Shah, MD to the statewide practice.

Priya U. Kumthekar, MD, details the specialized program for fellows while reflecting on her own experiences, highlights her research in brain metastases, and offers advice to both fellowship directors and current fellows in oncology.

Ajay Kumar Nooka, MD, MPH, FACP, highlights the significance of the FDA approval of elranatamab for select patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma and sheds light on the agent’s role in the expanding field of T cell–redirecting therapies approved for the treatment of this patient population.

The biologics license application seeking the approval of the on-body injector presentation of pegfilgrastim-cbqv, a biosimilar of pegfilgrastim, has been resubmitted to the FDA for review.

Pembrolizumab as adjuvant therapy led to a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in disease-free survival compared with observation in patients with localized muscle invasive urothelial cancer and locally advanced urothelial cancer.

First-line treatment with the combination of motixafortide, cemiplimab-rwlc, gemcitabine, and nab-paclitaxel elicited responses in patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma, according to initial data from the pilot portion of a phase 2 trial.

The FDA has approved the CRCdx® RAS Mutation Detection Kit as a companion diagnostic for panitumumab in the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, according to an announcement from EntroGen.

Researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University will serve as two of the principal investigators on the Asian American Community Cohort and Equity Study, which is part of a new seven-year epidemiological cohort study of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

Most fellows are incredibly busy and face emotional challenges as they navigate the path of cancer diagnosis to death with patients.

Shortages of cisplatin and carboplatin have continued at the majority of National Cancer Center Network (NCCN) institutions, according to data from a follow-up survey conducted by NCCN.

Administration of stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy to oligoprogressive lesions delayed a change in systemic therapy in patients with estrogen receptor–positive/HER2-negative breast cancer enrolled to the prospective phase 2 AVATAR trial.

Treatment with reduced-dose or partial-breast radiotherapy sustained long-term safety and elicited similar rates of ipsilateral breast tumor relapse compared with whole-breast radiotherapy in patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Ablative preoperative stereotactic partial breast irradiation plus endocrine therapy was safe at a single fraction of 34 Gy and generated pathological complete responses and near complete responses in patients with early-stage, estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

The American Association for Cancer Research has published their annual Cancer Progress Report outlining recent advances in cancer research, remaining challenges in cancer care, and requests for the federal government to continue—and ideally increase—its investment in oncology.

Daily adaptive radiotherapy with 1-mm planning target volume margins is feasible in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and was associated with improved dosimetric parameters compared with standard radiotherapy.

The use of diagnostic CT-based planning lowered the median time in treatment centers for patients with cancer who underwent diagnostic CT scan and palliative radiation therapy.

New research from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher Cigall Kadoch, PhD, along with colleagues at Princeton University and Washington University in St. Louis, reveals a key role for intrinsically disordered proteins known as IDRs that are implicated in a wide range of human diseases, from cancer to neurodegeneration

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to FG001 as an optical imaging agent for the visualization of malignant tissue during surgery for patients with high-grade glioma.

Second-line treatment with NT219 alone and in combination with cetuximab demonstrated safety and tolerability, and the combination produced confirmed partial responses in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The European Medicines Agency has validated the marketing authorization application for the use of imetelstat in the treatment of transfusion-dependent anemia in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Faith E. Davies, MD, discusses the overarching goals of the Multiple Myeloma Call-to-Action, unmet needs that this plan seeks to alleviate, and ways in which all medical professionals could adopt these tenets into their practice to achieve global change in the care of patients with multiple myeloma.

Second- or third-line treatment with the CD47 blocker evorpacept in combination with trastuzumab, ramucirumab, and paclitaxel improved responses vs trastuzumab/ramucirumab/paclitaxel alone in patients with HER2-positive, advanced gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer.

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched the state’s first-ever Tobacco Cessation Policy Research Center.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to BI 764532 for the treatment of patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer that has progressed following at least 2 prior lines of treatment, and for patients with advanced or metastatic extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma that has progressed following at least 1 prior line of treatment.

The addition of PDS0101 to pembrolizumab resulted in a 2-year overall survival rate of 74% in patients with unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic, HPV16-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who were naïve to an immune checkpoint inhibitor.

Takeda has announced plans to voluntarily withdraw mobocertinib in the United States for adult patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutation–positive, locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer whose disease has progressed on or following platinum-based chemotherapy.