All Oncology News

John L. Marshall, MD, discusses the identification of targetable subsets of patients with advanced CRC, unmet needs that remain to be addressed for patients with advanced CRC, and the continued need for a multidisciplinary approach in treating patients across the gastrointestinal cancer spectrum.

The FDA has granted fast track designations to ACR-368 monotherapy for the treatment of patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer who are positive for predicted sensitivity to the agent using Acrivon Therapeutics’ OncoSignature® test.

A new study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found that for young women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, pausing endocrine therapy to pursue a pregnancy did not raise the short-term risk that the disease will recur.

Enrollment to the phase 3 MANIFEST-2 trial, which is examining the safety and efficacy of pelabresib plus ruxolitinib vs ruxolitinib alone in patients with JAK inhibitor–naïve myelofibrosis, has completed and topline findings are anticipated by the end of 2023.

As more treatment options enter the oncology landscape, access to these life-changing medicines has become a paramount concern.

Attaya Suvannasankha, MD, discusses the unique mechanism of action of REGN5459, the early efficacy and safety of the immunotherapy in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, and opportunities for further exploration.

China’s National Medical Products Administration has approved 2 supplemental new drug applications of zanubrutinib for use in treatment-naïve adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma and Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

The addition of venetoclax to lenalidomide and rituximab produced early evidence of clinical efficacy with a tolerable safety profile in previously untreated patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Liat Hogen, MD, FRCSC, discussed the potential benefit for cytoreductive surgery in patients with initially unresectable stage IV epithelial ovarian cancer and the implications of findings from this retrospective analysis on future clinical decisions.

The investigational CAR T-cell therapy GD2-CART01 showed preliminary antitumor activity and safety in pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma, according to data from a phase 1/2 trial.

The combination of sintilimab and chemotherapy with or without the bevacizumab biosimilar IBI305 produced a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival vs chemotherapy alone in patients with EGFR-mutated, nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer who progressed after treatment with an EGFR TKI.

Researchers, including those at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, are currently working to understand ethnic disparities in skin-cancer related morbidity and mortality in melanoma.

When patients with cancer are asked to be participants in a clinical trial, they are informed that a primary purpose of the investigative effort is to develop objectively valid, generalizable information that may be of value to patients with the same malignancy or benefit researchers in the development of future studies.

Karen S. Anderson, MD, PhD, discusses emerging data and role for CDK4/6 inhibitors in the treatment of patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, along with the growing use of antibody-drug conjugates across the breast cancer spectrum and updates in triple-negative breast cancer.

Eric A. Singer, MD, discusses the findings from cohort B of KEYNOTE-057 and explains why systemic therapy with pembrolizumab could be beneficial for patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive, high-risk, papillary-only non–muscle invasive bladder cancer who hope to avoid radical cystectomy.

The TKI anlotinib plus the PARP inhibitor niraparib continued to provide overall survival benefit with an acceptable safety profile when given to patients with platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer.

The phase 3 MATTERHORN trial examining roxadustat as an anemia treatment in patients with transfusion-dependent, lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome did not meet its primary end point.

Aristotelis Bamias, MD, discusses the efficacy and safety data from the final OS analysis of the IMvigor130 trial and emphasizes the clinical implications of this research in metastatic urothelial cancer.

The gamma-delta T-cell therapies INB-400 and INB-410 have received orphan drug designations from the FDA for use as potential therapeutic options in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma.

Sia Daneshmand, MD, discusses the rationale for investigating TAR-200 for the treatment of patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer, expands on the preliminary efficacy and safety data from the SunRISe-1 trial, and more.

Research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that transposable elements in various cancers potentially may be used to direct novel immunotherapies to tumors that don’t typically respond to immune-based treatments.

The FDA has granted 510K clearance to Bladder EpiCheck for use as a noninvasive method for surveillance of tumor recurrence in previously diagnosed patients with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer, in conjunction with cystoscopy.

Bently Doonan, MD, discusses how CA-4948 can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and interact with the tumor microenvironment, and how this approach may open doors for patients with melanoma who have brain metastases.

Bertrand F. Tombal, MD, PhD, explains how data on the clinically relevant drug-drug interactions and TRAEs with darolutamide, docetaxel and ADT support previously reported efficacy data from the ARASENS trial, and presents lingering questions and caveats from this trial that should be addressed through continued research.

Administration of aumolertinib until intracranial oligoprogression, followed by salvage stereotactic radiation therapy, produced central nervous system responses with acceptable tolerability in patients with intracranial oligometastatic EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

The combination of gedatolisib and fulvestrant with or without palbociclib is under evaluation in the phase 3 VIKTORIA-1 trial for the treatment of patients with PIK3CA-mutated or wild-type hormone receptor–positive/HER2-negative breast cancer who have previously progressed on first-line therapy.

Ryan J. Sullivan, MD, discusses previous research on tebentafusp in uveal melanoma that led to the inception of the IMCgp100-202 trial and clinical implications for data confirming the predictive value of circulating tumor DNA levels.

Onco-nursing experts highlight the best practices and latest treatment regimens for patients presenting with the 3 most common myeloproliferative neoplasms: myelofibrosis, polycythemia vera, and essential thrombocythemia.

Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health are pleased to announce the new Fox Chase-Temple Urologic Institute, a groundbreaking initiative that will concentrate on both benign and oncologic urology.

The FDA has approved FoundationOne® Liquid CDx as a companion diagnostic for mobocertinib in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.