All Oncology News

Amivantamab continued to be tolerable and efficacious in patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations whose disease progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy.

The FDA has granted full approval to pembrolizumab for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with unresectable or metastatic microsatellite instability–high or mismatch repair–deficient solid tumors that have progressed following previous treatment and who have no satisfactory alternative options.

Up-front treatment with osimertinib reduced the risk of brain progression-free survival but provided a comparable overall survival benefit compared with sequential treatment with gefitinib followed by osimertinib in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR mutations.

Neeraj Agarwal, MD, discusses preclinical data that supported the launch of the TALAPRO-2 trial and key efficacy and safety data on the use of talazoparib plus enzalutamide in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer irrespective of homologous recombination repair mutational status.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers outline the complexities of colorectal cancer and the research needed to map out a path toward understanding it.

The European Commission has approved cemiplimab-rwlc plus platinum-based chemotherapy for the frontline treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic PD-L1–positive non–small cell lung cancer without EGFR, ALK, or ROS1 alterations and who are not eligible for chemoradiation.

Blueprint Medicines announced on March 28, 2023, that the FDA has removed a partial clinical hold on the phase 1/2 VELA trial trial of BLU-222.

As the development of systemic treatments for metastatic colorectal cancer move toward precision therapy, guidelines have adjusted to integrate decisions based on molecular drivers.

Although some patients with stage II/III colorectal cancer were at an increased risk of severe symptoms and deterioration over time, patient-reported symptoms showed that those with newly diagnosed disease generally reported a low symptom burden that remained stable or improved after receiving adjuvant systemic therapy, according to a retrospective analysis.

Neoadjuvant treatment with olaparib prior to surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy was well tolerated and led to a 100% optimal resection rate in patients with newly diagnosed, BRCA-mutant ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer.

The FDA has issued draft guidance to improve applications for accelerated approvals, according to a recently issued news release.

Dostarlimab plus standard-of-care chemotherapy generated a significant improvement in progression-free survival vs chemotherapy alone for patients with recurrent endometrial cancer, including those with mismatch repair–deficient, microsatellite instability–high tumors.

Pembrolizumab plus standard-of-care chemotherapy, followed by maintenance pembrolizumab, reduced the risk of disease progression or death vs chemotherapy alone in patients with mismatch repair–deficient and mismatch repair–proficient advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

TALAPRO-2 demonstrated that using talazoparib in combination with enzalutamide may reduce the risk of disease progression or death by 37%.

Canada Health has approved the fixed-duration, all-oral combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax for the frontline treatment of adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, including those with 17p deletion.

The evaluation of diagnostic quality in precision medicine should almost certainly be assessed by standards different from those used in drug development.

Sameem Abedin, MD, discusses where CAR T-cell therapy falls in the treatment paradigm for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the known safety profile of obe-cel as evidenced in early studies, and how findings from the FELIX trial could change the future management of this disease.

Botensilimab in combination with balstilimab induced durable responses in patients with resistant/refractory ovarian cancer.

The combination of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab produced deep, durable tumor responses in both all-comer and mismatch repair–proficient (pMRR) populations of patients with advanced endometrial cancer, according to data from the phase 3 Study 309/KEYNOTE-775 trial.

The combination of ribociclib and endocrine therapy (ET) significantly reduced the risk of disease recurrence vs standard adjuvant ET in patients with hormone receptor–positive/HER2-negative early breast cancer at risk of recurrence.

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has approved fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of adult patients with HER2-low unresectable or recurrent breast cancer after prior chemotherapy.

The combination of toripalimab, bevacizumab, and platinum-based chemotherapy elicited responses in patients with refractory, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.

Maintenance niraparib did not produce a statistically significant overall survival benefit compared with placebo in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer, according to data from an updated exploratory OS analysis of the phase 3 ENGOT-OV16/NOVA study.

Treatment with the oral, small-molecule Wee1 kinase inhibitor adavosertib was clinically active but not well tolerated in patients with recurrent or persistent uterine serous carcinoma who previously received platinum-based chemotherapy.

The combination of durvalumab, tremelimumab, and hypofractionated radiotherapy demonstrated early tolerability in patients with gynecologic malignancies and elicited objective responses in those with PD-L1–high tumors.

Women with ovarian cancer may be effectively assessed for frailty status via the Carolina Frailty Index Score.

Iovance Biotherapeutics has submitted a rolling biologics license application to the FDA seeking the approval of the tumor infiltrating lymphocyte therapy lifileucel for the treatment of patients with advanced unresectable or metastatic melanoma who progressed on or after prior anti–PD-1/L1 therapy and targeted therapy.

The recommended phase 2 dose of olaparib plus selumetinib generated a clinical benefit in patients with endometrial or ovarian cancer harboring RAS mutations, according to findings from the dose-expansion portion of the phase 1b SOLAR trial.

The use of an individualized starting dose and dose modifications due to treatment-emergent adverse effects did not impact the efficacy of maintenance niraparib in patients with newly diagnosed ovarian cancer, irrespective of BRCA mutation status.

Neoadjuvant treatment with the combination of durvalumab plus tremelimumab and chemotherapy elicited a promising 12-month progression-free survival rate in patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer.