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The combination of enfortumab vedotin-ejfv and pembrolizumab generated rapid and durable responses and demonstrated a manageable safety profile in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who were ineligible for cisplatin.

The addition of nivolumab and ipilimumab to cabozantinib led to an improvement in disease control rate and progression-free survival vs cabozantinib alone in patients with metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.

The protein arginine methyltransferase 5 brain-penetrant inhibitor PRT811 demonstrated preliminary antitumor activity and acceptable safety for patients with recurrent high-grade glioma and advanced or metastatic uveal melanoma, according to data from the dose-expansion portion of a phase 1 trial presented at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Erdafitinib reduced the risk of death by 36% vs investigator’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with FGFR2/3-altered metastatic urothelial cancer who were previously treated with anti–PD-1 therapy, according to findings from the phase 3 THOR trial.

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab and chemotherapy continued to show durable benefit at 4 years compared with chemotherapy alone as first-line therapy in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer, particularly in the PD-L1–negative and squamous populations.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki demonstrated clinically meaningful activity across a wide range of HER2 expressing solid tumors, including hard-to-treat tumors, according to findings from the phase 2 DESTINY-PanTumor02 trial.

The triplet combination of zotatifin, abemaciclib, and fulvestrant demonstrated a confirmed overall response rate of 21% in heavily pretreated patients with estrogen receptor–positive metastatic breast cancer.

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Treatment with tovorafenib elicited encouraging and fast onset responses in heavily pretreated pediatric patients with low-grade glioma regardless of response assessment criteria, according to data from the phase 2 FIREFLY-1 trial that were presented at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy improved clinical outcomes vs chemotherapy alone in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer who received definitive surgery with numerical but not statistical improvements seen even when definitive surgery was not achieved.

Treatment with the investigational gamma secretase inhibitor nirogacestat allowed patients with progressing desmoid tumors to experience a significant and clinically meaningful reduction in several aspects of disease-related pain when compared with placebo.

Findings from a subgroup analysis of the phase 3 EMERALD trial presented during the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting demonstrated elacestrant elicited prolonged progression-free survival compared with standard-of-care therapy for patients with estrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative non-detected ESR1 mutated breast cancer who experienced disease progression within 6 months of CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment plus endocrine therapy.

The PD-1 and TIGIT bispecific rilvegostomig demonstrated promising early signs of tolerability and efficacy in patients with advanced or metastatic PD-L1–positive non–small cell lung cancer following progression on at least 1 prior checkpoint inhibitor. according to initial findings from the phase 1/2 ARTEMIDE-01 study.

The combination of talazoparib and enzalutamide resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in radiographic progression-free survival when used as a first-line therapy for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer harboring homologous recombination repair gene alterations.

Patients with homologous recombination repair–deficient mutations and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who also harbored BRCA mutations experienced poorer survival outcomes vs patients without BRCA mutations and those with non-BRCA HRR mutations, according to an analysis from the CAPTURE trial.

The 5.4-mg/kg dose of trastuzumab deruxtecan elicited numerically higher activity in patients with HER2-positive, metastatic colorectal cancer compared with the 6.4-mg/kg dose.

Dostarlimab maintained the health-related quality of life in patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

The BCMA- and CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy GC012F continued to demonstrate a favorable safety profile with no new safety signals, and it elicited deep and durable responses in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Treatment with the IDH1/2 inhibitor vorasidenib reduced the risk of progression or death by 61% compared with placebo for patients with grade 2 IDH-mutant glioma, according to findings from the phase 3, double-blind INDIGO trial.

Treatment with adjuvant osimertinib produced a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival compared with placebo in patients with resected, EGFR-mutated, stage IB to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer.

Neoadjuvant treatment with fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin proved to be as effective as pelvic chemoradiation with fewer adverse effects in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer who were eligible for sphincter-sparing surgery.

Nivolumab in combination with doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (AVD) resulted in prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) compared with brentuximab vedotin plus AVD in patients with advanced-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

Mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx demonstrated a 35% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with investigator’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with folate receptor alpha-high, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

Treatment with elranatamab monotherapy produced early, deep, and durable responses in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who received a prior BCMA-directed therapy, according to a pooled analysis of the MagnetisMM-1, MagnetisMM-2, MagnetisMM-3, and MagnetisMM-9 trials.

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When administered at doses of 90 μg/kg or higher, the novel DLL3-targeting T-cell engager, BI 764532, was found to have an acceptable toxicity profile and to elicit encouraging responses in patients with DLL3-positive small cell lung cancer and neuroendocrine carcinoma.

Talquetamab plus daratumumab displayed high response rates regardless of 0.4 mg/kg or 0.8 mg/kg dosing in combination with daratumumab in patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, irrespective of prior treatment with CD38-directed therapy and T-cell redirection therapy.

The combination of dostarlimab with standard-of-care carboplatin and paclitaxel elicited a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival vs carboplatin/paclitaxel plus placebo in patients with mismatch repair–deficient/microsatellite instability–high advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

Triplet therapy with cabozantinib, nivolumab, and ipilimumab demonstrated clinical meaningful activity in patients with renal cell carcinoma with variant histologies.

Positive changes in symptoms of anxiety and depression were reported in patients with cancer following the use of a cognitive behavioral stress management app.