All Oncology News

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC is pleased to announce that Board-certified hematologist and medical oncologist Jayan Nair, MD has joined the the Sarasota Downtown clinical team.

The European Medicines Agency has accepted a marketing authorization application seeking the approval of odronextamab for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma or relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who have progressed after at least 2 prior systemic therapies.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to NXP800 for the treatment of patients with cholangiocarcinoma.

Findings from a cross-institutional study suggest that on-pathway regimens led to significant cost savings for patients with cancer, despite the rate of hospitalizations and immune-related adverse events being similar between on-pathway and off-pathway regimens.

Pembrolizumab demonstrated long-term survival benefit compared with ipilimumab in patients with unresectable stage III/IV melanoma who received up to 1 prior systemic therapy.

R. Lor Randall, MD, FACS, explains the difference between noncancerous chondroblastoma and other bone neoplasms, details the typical diagnosis and treatment of this rare condition, and emphasizes the importance of pediatric and medical oncologists being able to identify it in clinic.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough device designation to HLA-LOH as a companion diagnostic test, according to an announcement from Tempus.

The natural killer T-cell agonist IMM60 may overcome resistance to PD-1 inhibitors when combined with immunotherapy in patients with melanoma and non–small cell lung cancer.

Treatment with repotrectinib continued to produce high and durable responses with a manageable safety profile in patients with ROS1-positive locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who were naïve to a TKI or previously treated with 1 TKI and no chemotherapy.

Treatment with the all-oral triplet of tucatinib, letrozole, and palbociclib yielded clinically meaningful efficacy results and had an acceptable safety profile in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

MB-106, a first-in-class, CD20-targeted autologous CAR T-cell therapy, led to durable clinical responses with low-grade cytokine release syndrome in patients with indolent lymphoma.

The nation’s top-ranked UT MD Anderson Cancer Center and flagship UT Austin to build new hospitals as part of project.

The combination of vemurafenib and cobimetinib led to a 94% partial response rate or better in 16 patients with newly diagnosed BRAF-mutated papillary craniopharyngiomas.

The combination of tucatinib and ado-trastuzumab emtansine elicited an improvement in progression-free survival compared with placebo plus T-DM1 in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who received previous treatment with a taxane and trastuzumab in any setting.

Zeynep Eroglu, MD, explains the rationale for adding navitoclax to dabrafenib plus trametinib in the treatment of patients with BRAF V600–mutant metastatic melanoma, highlights the methodologies and results of the CTEP-P9466 trial, and describes the implications of this research for this patient population.

Harry Gill, MD, discusses the importance of offering patients with APL an entirely oral treatment regimen, key efficacy findings from this trial, and the tolerability of this regimen.

The FDA has granted priority review to the supplemental new drug application seeking the approval of ivosidenib for the treatment of patients with IDH1-mutated, relapsed/refractory myelodysplastic syndrome.

Use of Copper 64 PSMA I&T for PET/CT imaging met the threshold for significance regarding region-level correct localization rate and patient-level correct detection rate in patients with histologically confirmed metastatic prostate cancer, meeting the coprimary end points of the phase 2 SOLAR trial.

Francine Walton, MPH, shares how her mother has shaped her perspective on the cancer journey, including the importance of hope and resilience in the face of adversity.

The FDA has lifted the partial clinical hold placed on the clinical program evaluating the investigational new drug, CART-ddBCMA, in the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Recent years have brought tremendous progress in demonstrating that there is hope for improving mortality from pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma through early detection.

Berubicin was found to have acceptable tolerability when administered as second-line treatment in patients with recurrent or refractory glioblastoma multiforme.

The FDA has approved HEPZATO KIT (melphalan/Hepatic Delivery System) for use in the treatment of select patients with unresectable hepatic-dominant metastatic uveal melanoma.

The FDA has approved FoundationOne CDx to be utilized as a companion diagnostic for the dual-action tablet of niraparib plus abiraterone acetate, which was approved for use in combination with prednisone in adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious BRCA-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The FDA has placed a clinical hold on the phase 1 PLAT-08 trial evaluating SC-DARIC33 in pediatric and young-adult patients with relapsed/refractory CD33-positive acute myeloid leukemia.

Tian Zhang, MD, discusses unanswered questions regarding molecular drivers of kidney cancer that the OPTIC RCC trial aims to answer, next steps with this research, and the potential benefits of receiving systemic therapy prior to undergoing cytoreductive nephrectomy for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to elranatamab-bcmm (Elrexfio) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have previously received at least 4 lines of therapy, including a proteasome inhibitor, an immunomodulatory agent, and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody.

Surgeons affiliated with Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center’s Advanced Lung and Airway Center successfully performed the first robotic resection of malignant thymoma, a cancer of the thymus gland, followed by installation of heated chemotherapy into the chest.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to quratusugene ozeplasmid (Reqorsa) for the treatment of patients with small cell lung cancer.

Treatment with the folate receptor–α antibody-drug conjugate BAT8006 led to responses with a manageable safety profile in patients with advanced solid tumors, including ovarian cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer.