All Oncology News

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of nivolumab for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with esophageal or gastroesophageal junction cancer who have residual pathologic disease after previous neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has issued a positive opinion in favor of granting conditional marketing authorization to the combination of tafasitamab-cxix and lenalidomide, followed by single-agent tafasitamab, for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who are not candidates for autologous stem cell transplant.

Eric Klein, MD, discusses the promise of VERU-111 in patients with metastatic CRPC and other research efforts that are generating excitement in the paradigm.

The European Commission has granted approval to cemiplimab for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer whose tumor cells have at least 50% PD-L1 expression and no EGFR, ALK, or ROS1 aberrations and are ineligible for definitive chemoradiation.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended that idecabtagene vicleucel receive conditional marketing authorization for use in adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least 3 prior therapies, including an immunomodulatory agent, a proteasome inhibitor, and a CD38-targeted antibody, and have progressed on their last therapy.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to adagrasib for use as a potential therapeutic option for patients with KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer following previous systemic therapy.

Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Montefiore Health System announced that Lauren Hackett, MPA, has been appointed the deputy director of administration of AECC and associate vice president of cancer medicine at Montefiore Medicine.

The addition of sintilimab to chemotherapy significantly improved overall survival over chemotherapy alone when used as a first-line treatment in patients with unresectable, locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 ORIENT-15 trial.

Neal D. Shore, MD, FACS, discusses the design of the phase 3 ARAMIS trial in nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

In a 13 to 4 vote, the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee chose to hold off on a decision regarding accelerated approval for retifanlimab for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic squamous carcinoma of the anal canal who have progressed on or are intolerant of platinum-based chemotherapy.

The Chinese National Medical Products Administration has granted conditional approval to olaparib for use as a monotherapy in the treatment in adult patients with germline or somatic BRCA-mutated, metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have progressed after previous treatment that included a new hormonal agent like abiraterone acetate or enzalutamide.

The anti-TIGIT agent domvanalimab in combination with zimberelimab with or without etrumadenant demonstrated promising objective response rates when given as a first-line treatment in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who have a PD-L1 expression of 50% or higher.

Sarcomas, all together, have an incidence of less than 5/100,000 persons per year, according to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. Compare that with breast cancer, which impacts 129.1/100,000 women per year, or lung cancer, which has an incidence of 53.1/100,000 persons per year

Was it natural zoonotic spillover that catapulted SARS-CoV-2 from an emerging virus into a pandemic pathogen or was it something much more sinister? Is it at all possible that a lab leak in Wuhan, China, was the spark that lit the fuse?

The next-generation CD37-directed radioimmunotherapy 177Lu lilotomab satetraxten has showcased early clinical activity with favorable tolerability when used in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who are not candidates for stem cell transplantation.

Actionable mutations identified in colorectal cancer have contributed significantly to the expansion of the therapeutic options available for patients with metastatic disease.

Sarah Cannon announced today that Navneet Majhail, MD, MS, FASTCT has been named Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Blood Cancers for the Sarah Cannon Transplant and Cellular Therapy Network.

Three first-in-class, SOX11 small molecule inhibitors demonstrated on-target antitumor activity in mantle cell lymphoma cell lines and in patient-derived ibrutinib-resistant models ex vivo.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is pursuing several novel approaches, including viro-immunotherapy and genetically engineered natural killer cells to treat patients with glioblastoma, while also conducting tumor analysis to better comprehend the disease.

Nizar Tannir, MD, FACP, discusses the results of the phase 2 CANTATA trial with telaglenastat plus cabozantinib and future research directions for the glutaminase inhibitor.

Individuals with cancer or who have a history of cancer should qualify for inclusion on COVID-19 vaccine trials, unless there is a safety justification for exclusion.

Peter Martin, MD, discusses discrepancies in real-world patterns of care for patients with MCL and what can be done to overcome them.

Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, today announced the creation of the Advancing Inclusive Research® Site Alliance.

Savolitinib has been granted a conditional approval in China for use in patients with non–small cell lung cancer with MET exon 14 skipping alterations who experienced disease progression after previous systemic therapy or are unable to receive chemotherapy.

Loncastuximab tesirine-lpyl continued to demonstrate promising antitumor activity with an acceptable toxicity profile when used in the treatment of select patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma.

Three-quarters of all cases of lung adenocarcinoma, the most common type of non–small cell lung cancer, are defined by oncogenic driver events involving receptor tyrosine kinase–orchestrated cellular signaling pathways.

Peter Riedell, MD, discusses the rationale for a study in mantle cell lymphoma, the clinical implications of the findings, and unanswered questions that future research efforts should aim to answer.

The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for the expanded use of subcutaneous daratumumab for use in 2 new indications.

Camidanlumab tesirine was found to elicit an objective response rate of 66.3% in patients with relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma.

The FDA has accepted for filing the resubmission of the new drug application for a unique formulation of sodium thiosulfate, for the prevention of ototoxicity that is induced by cisplatin chemotherapy in patients between the ages of 1 month and 18 years who have localized, nonmetastatic, solid tumors.