All Oncology News

Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, discusses treatment updates across HER2-positive breast cancer, adjuvant advances in estrogen receptor–positive disease, and the domino effect of immunotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer.

Dorothy Graves, PhD, said she admired Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine years prior to being appointed Sylvester’s assistant vice president and associate director for administration in early 2022.

Frederick Locke, MD, discusses the phase 3 ZUMA-7 trial examining axicabtagene ciloleucel in the second-line treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma, safety and efficacy findings with the therapy, and the significance of the data that have been reported to date.

Efforts are underway to evaluate novel, durable treatment options for adult patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the phase 1b/2 FELIX trial evaluating obecabtagene autoleucel, a novel, second-generation CAR T-cell therapy.

Alexander B. Olawaiye, MD, discusses how social and biological determinants can affect care outcomes across cancer subtypes and what steps community and academic oncologists can take to ensure these disparities are recognized.

When maintenance niraparib was administered at an individualized starting dose, it resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival vs placebo in patients with newly diagnosed ovarian cancer, irrespective of biomarker status.

Maintenance selinexor monotherapy was found to improve progression-free survival over placebo in patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

The use of intraperitoneal carboplatin with paclitaxel improved progression-free survival, but not overall survival, vs intravenous chemotherapy in patients with epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer.

Mirvetuximab soravtansine was found to produce clinically meaningful antitumor activity with acceptable safety and tolerability in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer and high folate receptor–alpha (FRα) expression.

The combination of nemvaleukin alpha and pembrolizumab led to encouraging clinical activity in patients with pretreated ovarian cancer who are resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy.

Atezolizumab given as an immune primer or concurrently with extended field chemoradiation demonstrated favorable progression-free survival and few dose-limiting toxicities, with evidence of T-cell clonal expansion in the tumors and peripheral blood of patients with locally advanced, node-positive cervical cancer.

Neoadjuvant niraparib induced strong results for patients with BRCA-mutant, homologous repair deficient–positive advanced resectable ovarian cancer.

Niraparib in combination with bevacizumab was efficacious following 1 line of platinum-based chemotherapy among patients with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer, regardless of biomarker status.

Intravenous chemotherapy plus bevacizumab did not demonstrate differences in progression-free and overall survival compared with intraperitoneal chemotherapy plus bevacizumab in patients with advanced ovarian cancer with no macroscopic disease.

Single-agent olaparib generated similar overall survival compared with non-platinum chemotherapy in heavily pretreated patients with platinum-sensitive, relapsed ovarian cancer with BRCA mutations, according to the final analysis of the phase 3 SOLO3 trial.

Patient-reported outcome data support a favorable benefit/risk profile for the combination of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab, in patients with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer.

The FDA has approved the fixed-dose combination of relatlimab plus nivolumab for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients who are 12 years of age or older and who have unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

Patients with platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer without a germline BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 mutation treated with maintenance olaparib who achieved long-term progression-free survival more often had homologous recombination deficiency-positive tumors compared with those who experienced a short-term PFS.

Maintenance therapy with olaparib will be examined in patients with BRCA1/2 wild-type advanced ovarian cancer who responded to first-line, platinum-based chemotherapy in the phase 3 MONO-OLA1 trial.

Oregovomab, an investigational monoclonal antibody with promising phase 2 data, is being tested in combination with paclitaxel for patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer in the phase 3 FLORA-5 trial.

The addition of ociperlimab to tislelizumab is under investigation in the phase 2 AdvanTIG-202 trial in patients with previously treated recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.

The durable antitumor activity of pembrolizumab and the clinically beneficial outcomes demonstrated with both adjuvant chemotherapy and adjuvant chemoradiotherapy have provided investigators with the foundation to assess the 2 approaches in combination in a phase 3 study.

Patients with recurrent ovarian cancer who received PARP inhibitor maintenance treatment in the second-line setting experienced a longer time to next treatment and overall survival compared with those who were just under active surveillance.

Pembrolizumab was found to significantly improve disease-free survival vs placebo when used in the adjuvant treatment of patients with stage IB to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer following surgical resection, meeting 1 of the dual primary end points of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-091 trial.

New research led by Yale Cancer Center shows the creation of a next-generation CRISPR-Cas9 “off-switch” and precision tool to aid safe gene editing therapeutics in patients.

Pasi A. Jänne, MD, PhD, discovered a new way to treat lung cancer by following his intuition and staying flexible to pursue opportunities as they arise

Selinexor reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 30% in an audited intent-to-treat population of patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer who received frontline chemotherapy, and by 62% in a subset of patients with p53 wild-type disease, according to data from the phase 3 SIENDO trial.

Haris Ali, MD, discusses updates in acute and chronic graft-vs-host-disease, current and emerging agents in myelofibrosis and polycythemia vera, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia management.

“I still have about 250 active patients with blood cancers, and every single one has my cell phone. I do everything in real time....That connection is very important and meaningful for me.”

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to the investigative allogeneic unmodified gamma delta T-cell product, TCB-002, for use as a potential therapeutic option in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia.