All Oncology News

Brexucabtagene autoleucel elicited high rates of complete remission with minimal residual disease negativity in real-world patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who received the CAR T-cell product as post-approval, standard-of-care treatment, according to data from a retrospective study.

Obecabtagene autoleucel was associated with a 76% complete response (CR)/CR with incomplete count recovery rate in adult patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Treatment with the first-in-class direct and competitive telomerase inhibitor imetelstat resulted in statistically significant and clinically meaningful efficacy in patients with heavily transfusion dependent, non-del(5q) lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome that is relapsed or refractory to erythropoiesis stimulating agents, according to findings from the phase 3 IMerge trial.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC has named Wilfredo Blasini, MD as Medical Director of the Central Pathology Laboratory.

Simple hysterectomy was found to be noninferior to radical hysterectomy and pelvic node dissection in patients with low-risk, early-stage cervical cancer, according to results of the Canadian Cancer Trials Group CX.5/SHAPE trial.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of piflufolastat 18F, a prostate-specific membrane antigen–targeted positron emission tomography imaging agent, for use in prostate cancer detection.

Higher baseline HER3-positive circulating tumor cell count at baseline and reduction following treatment initiation was associated with a higher likelihood of deriving an early response with patritumab deruxtecan in patients with hormone receptor–positive or HER2-low advanced breast cancer.

The first patient has been dosed with the autologous CAR T-cell therapy A2B530 in the multicenter, first-in-human, phase 1/2 EVEREST-1 study.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC continues to forge new partnerships with alternative payment models and payers

The China National Medical Products Adminstration’s Center for Drug Evaluation has recommended that olverembatinib receive breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor that is succinate dehydrogenase deficient.

A new clinical trial is testing the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment following surgery for a subset of pancreatic cancer patients.

Subcutaneous delivery of fixed-dose adjuvant pertuzumab plus trastuzumab proved to have favorable tolerability, with a safety profile consistent with that seen with intravenous delivery of the regimen in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

The FDA has approved olaparib (Lynparza) plus abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) and prednisone or prednisolone for the treatment of patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious BRCA-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, as determined by an FDA-approved companion diagnostic test.

Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy displayed a manageable safety profile consistent with previous reports in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, irrespective of UGT1A1 status, according to a safety analysis of the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 trial.

The combination of panitumumab and standard-of-care trifluridine-tipiracil rechallenge delivered a progression-free survival benefit vs trifluridine-tipiracil alone in the third-line setting in patients with refractory RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer, meeting the primary end point of the phase 2 VELO trial.

Atezolizumab in combination with trastuzumab and vinorelbine generated responses and a tolerable safety profile in patients with HER2-positive, estrogen receptor–negative or ER-positive/PAM50 non-luminal advanced breast cancer, according to data from a prespecified interim analysis of the phase 2 ATREZZO trial.

Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Mary Daly, MD, PhD, FACP was recently recognized as the first recipient of the BRCA Impact Award from Penn Medicine’s Basser Center for BRCA.

Tycel Phillips, MD, discusses the significance of the FDA approval for epcoritamab in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, key data from the EPCORE NHL-1 trial that support this approval, and how the approval of epcoritamab signals the expanding role of bispecific antibodies in this patient population.

Investigators are aiming to add another agent to the treatment armamentarium for patients with relapsed or refractory solid tumors, as well as those with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, with the development of KB-0742, a CDK9 inhibitor.

Whitfield B. Growdon, MD, shares the potential implications of first-line PARP maintenance in newly diagnosed ovarian cancer, the importance of treating patients with effective therapies as early as possible, and where combination regimens could fit into the treatment paradigm going forward.

The safety review committee for the phase 1/2 Acclaim-1 trial has ruled that the study evaluating quaratusugene ozeplasmid in combination with osimertinib in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer can proceed to the phase 2 expansion portion.

Suzanne B. Coopey, MD, FACS, discusses the de-escalation of axillary lymph node surgery, shifts in the use of radiation oncology, and changes in the treatment paradigm for HER2-positive breast cancer.

STAT2 expression in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma increases with tumor grade and cancer stage, with increases occurring at greater rates among Asian and African American patients.

Several phase 3 studies conducted by researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute show promising results for patients with rectal, brain, and kidney cancers.

The FDA has granted priority review to the biologics license application for the tumor infiltrating lymphocyte therapy lifileucel for the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma who progressed on or after prior anti–PD-1/PD-L1 therapy and targeted therapy.

The FDA has granted priority review to repotrectinib for the treatment of patients with ROS1-positive locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, developed a clinical outreach program combining diagnostic and patient navigation services.

The FDA has approved flotufolastat F 18 injection (Posluma) for positron emission tomography of prostate-specific membrane antigen–positive lesions in men with prostate cancer with suspected metastasis who are eligible for initial definitive therapy or with suspected recurrence based on elevated serum prostate-specific antigen level.

New study led by UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center could improve outcomes for common cancer found in 1 in 8 men.

Whitfield B. Growdon, MD, discusses the role PARP inhibitors have played in ovarian cancer since their introduction to the field, the updated clinical trial data that contributed to the indication withdrawals for these agents, and where future research in this area may be headed.