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First-line rucaparib maintenance therapy improved progression-free survival vs placebo in patients with newly diagnosed ovarian cancer, according to disease risk subgroup analyses from the phase 3 ATHENA–MONO study.

Lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab maintained clinically meaningful benefits in outcomes vs physician’s choice of therapy for patients with advanced endometrial cancer who received prior platinum-based chemotherapy.

Although the combination of androgen deprivation therapy, abiraterone acetate, and prednisolone showed a clinically meaningful 7-year improvement in overall survival, AAP plus enzalutamide is not recommended in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

The combination of adjuvant nivolumab and ipilimumab did not elicit a significant disease-free survival benefit vs placebo in patients with localized, renal cell carcinoma at high risk for relapse after nephrectomy.

Pembrolizumab plus chemoradiation failed to demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in event-free survival vs chemoradiation alone in patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

A pan-tumor blood-based assay demonstrated a specificity of 99.1% and positive predictive value of 38.0% and resulted in a diagnosis of cancer in 35 individuals.

The frontline combination of tremelimumab plus durvalumab and chemotherapy generated a long-term overall survival benefit in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

The addition of xevinapant to standard-of-care chemoradiotherapy elicited continued 5-year overall survival and 3-year duration of response benefits in patients with unresected head and neck locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma.

Tislelizumab monotherapy provided a clinically meaningful overall survival benefit that was noninferior to sorafenib and showcased a favorable toxicity profile when used as a frontline treatment for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Treatment with atezolizumab did not improve clinical outcomes vs placebo following resection in patients with renal cell carcinoma at increased risk of recurrence.

Perioperative nivolumab did not improve recurrence-free survival compared with surgery alone in patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Pembrolizumab plus abiraterone acetate and prednisone demonstrated continued efficacy and tolerability in patients with chemotherapy-naïve metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The investigational type II RAF inhibitor naporafenib exhibited favorable efficacy with a tolerable safety profile in combination with rineterkib, trametinib, or ribociclib in patients with previously treated, unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan continued to demonstrate a clinical benefit and tolerable safety profile for patients with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma who have received a trastuzumab-based regimen.

Cemiplimab maintained an overall survival benefit vs chemotherapy as a second-line treatment for patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer who received prior platinum-based chemotherapy.

Sacituzumab govitecan improved progression-free survival and overall response rate among patients with HER2-low or HER2 immunohistochemistry zero, hormone receptor­–positive metastatic breast cancer.

An updated analysis of the phase 1 SURPASS trial showed that ADP-A2M4CD8, a next-generational autologous T-cell receptor designed to patients with solid tumors, may be an effective therapy in MAGE-A4-positive disease.

Single-agent lasofoxifene did not produce a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival vs fulvestrant for patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer harboring ESR1 mutations.

Neoadjuvant talimogene laherparepvec plus surgery provided sustained, durable improvements in efficacy vs surgery alone in patients with resectable stage IIIB to IVM1a melanoma.

The addition of abemaciclib to trastuzumab, with or without fulvestrant, provided a numerical overall survival improvement over standard-of-care trastuzumab plus chemotherapy in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-positive advanced breast cancer, according to data from the monarcHER trial.

Increased exposure to particulate matter may be a mechanistic driver for EGFR-positive non–small cell lung cancer, prompting a focus on limiting exposure to air pollutants and an increased need for molecular testing.

Although the primary end points of the phase 3 LEAP-002 trial did not meet prespecified statistical significance with regard to survival benefit achieved with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab, the median overall survival observed with lenvatinib monotherapy supports its role as a standard of care in frontline advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treatment.

A tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy manufactured at various centers in the Netherlands Cancer Institute elicited a 50% reduction in the risk of progression or death vs ipilimumab in patients with stage IIIC/IV unresectable, treatment-refractory melanoma.

First-line treatment with camrelizumab plus rivoceranib resulted in a significant improvement in progression-free survival and overall survival compared with sorafenib in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Nirogacestat led to a 71% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with placebo in patients with progressive desmoid tumors.

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The FDA has approved eflapegrastim-xnst injection to decrease the incidence of infection, as manifested by febrile neutropenia, in adult patients with non-myeloid malignancies receiving myelosuppressive anti-cancer drugs associated with clinically significant incidence of febrile neutropenia.

The combination of the CDK4/6 inhibitor dalpiciclib plus letrozole or anastrozole reduced the risk of disease progression by 49% vs chemotherapy alone in patients with treatment-naïve, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

The investigational carcinoembryonic antigen claudin 6 (CLDN6)–directed CAR T-cell therapy BNT211-01 displayed clinical activity both as monotherapy and in combination with a CLDN6-encoding mRNA vaccine in patients with CLDN6-positive relapsed/refractory advanced solid tumors.

Adding oleclumab to durvalumab and chemotherapy did not increase the clinical benefit rate vs durvalumab plus chemotherapy alone as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer.