All Oncology News

CLDN18.2 has become a promising target for the treatment of patients with digestive malignancies, such as gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, esophageal cancer, and pancreatic cancer, because of its limited expression in healthy tissues and abnormal overexpression in a range of malignancies.

Ilyas Sahin, MD, details the preclinical findings from the study and highlighted how these data could help inform future studies for the treatment of patients with MDM2-overexpressing solid tumors.

Ribociclib plus switch endocrine therapy induced a statistically significant progression-free survival benefit compared with placebo plus switch endocrine therapy in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, metastatic breast cancer.

The National Medical Products Administration has accepted the supplemental new drug application seeking the approval of toripalimab in combination with nab-paclitaxel in patients with untreated metastatic or recurrent triple-negative breast cancer and a PD-L1 combined positive score of at least 1.

Young investigators, fellows, and medical students recently gathered at the Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to network and share exciting research aimed at addressing disparities in the dissemination of cancer care at the 5th Annual Regional Synergistic Partnership for Enhancing Equity in Cancer Health Conference and Retreat.

Xingming Zhang, MD, discusses unmet needs in fumarate hydratase–deficient renal cell carcinoma; shares key efficacy, safety, and quality of life findings from a phase 2 trial of sintilimab plus axitinib; and elaborates on the next steps for this research, including an analysis of biomarkers and potential resistance mechanisms.

For the second time at Northwestern Medicine, surgeons have successfully performed a double-lung transplant on a patient with stage 4 lung cancer who was being considered for hospice.

The FDA has granted priority review to a new drug application seeking the approval of the optical imaging agent Lumisight for use in patients with breast cancer, according to an announcement from Lumicell, Inc.

Amanda Bloomer, PhD, highlights the growing need for more research for this growing patient population and the age-specific findings that were seen in the ColoCare trial.

As longer-term data read out for established regimens in urothelial cancer and up-and-coming therapeutics inch toward approval, optimizing treatment approaches relies on buy-in from multidisciplinary teams and patients.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended the combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib for use in previously treated patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer whose cancer has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy and who cannot have curative surgery or radiotherapy.

The FDA has approved avapritinib (Ayvakit) for the treatment of adults with indolent systemic mastocytosis.

Faculty from an OncLive® Institutional Perspectives in Cancer webinar on multiple myeloma summarize the main messages from their presentations.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to mitazalimab for use as a potential therapeutic option in patients with pancreatic cancer.

The combination of GEN-002 and avelumab elicited responses in patients with advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, according to findings from an interim analysis of an ongoing phase 2 trial.

Treatment with milademetan did not lead to a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with trabectedin in patients with dedifferentiated liposarcoma, failing to reach the primary end point of the phase 3 MANTRA trial.

For the 11th consecutive year, OncLive is honored to recognize oncology leaders whose innovations have contributed to immeasurable improvements in outcomes for countless patients.

People living with HIV remain at higher risk than people living without HIV for developing various cancers that can be treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Shahrzad A. Zamani discusses the research on cancer disparities in patients within the LGBTQI+ population, and how these findings could inform further research and decisions in clinical practice.

The addition of cabozantinib to nivolumab and ipilimumab led to improved progression-free survival vs nivolumab and ipilimumab alone in patients with treatment-naïve advanced renal cell carcinoma; however, the rate of grade 3/4 adverse effects with the triplet was 79%.

Polymorphic alleles of ABCB1 or VEGF were predictive of lenalidomide efficacy in patients with mantle cell lymphoma who received lenalidomide maintenance after autologous stem cell transplant.

John V. Heymach, MD, PhD, expands on the efficacy of perioperative durvalumab in the AEGAN trial, the significance of this unique approach for the non–small cell lung cancer treatment paradigm, and future research examining opportunities to build on or intensify the benefit achieved with this regimen.

The FDA has approved the first T-cell–engaging bispecific antibody, epcoritamab-bysp (Epkinly), for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) not otherwise specified, including DLBCL arising from indolent lymphoma, and high-grade B-cell lymphoma, after 2 or more lines of systemic therapies.

Treatment with ruxolitinib generated superior responses vs treatment with best available therapy in patients with hydroxycarbamide-intolerant or -resistant polycythemia vera, according to findings from the phase 2 MAJIC-PV trial.

Acute myeloid leukemia is a cancer that affects blood cells in the bone marrow- the spongy tissue inside certain bones where new blood cells are made.

Mitchell E. Horwitz, MD, expands on key efficacy and safety data supporting the FDA approval of omidubicel, the significance of this decision for the blood cancer treatment paradigm, and the need for continued investigation of the agent in non-malignant disease and other patient subgroups.

The potential effectiveness of employing placebo in cancer clinical investigation is not difficult to appreciate, but the use of this approach has been, and continues to be, controversial.

Morie A. Gertz, MD, discusses the limitations of the current Mayo Stage IV amyloidosis treatment landscape, the rationale for investigating birtamimab in this population, and the importance of raising awareness for the AFFIRM-AL trial.

Roxadustat proved to be noninferior to recombinant erythropoietin alfa with regard to change in hemoglobin level from baseline to an average level during weeks 9 to 13 in patients receiving concurrent chemotherapy for non-myeloid malignancies in China, meeting the primary end point of an ongoing phase 3 trial.

Fred Saad, MD, FRCS, expands on the relationship between PSA responses and survival outcomes in the ARASENS trial, explained the use of 0.2 ng/mL as a standard cut off for undetectable PSA within this exploratory analysis, and discussed how this study elucidates future directions for research with triplet regimens in mHSPC.