All Oncology News

Lee S. Schwartzberg, MD, discusses the culmination of research with androgen-targeted agents in metastatic androgen receptor–positive, estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer and ongoing research that could lead to a paradigm shift in the second-line setting.

A new drug application has been submitted to the FDA seeking the marketing approval of dovitinib as a potential option in the third-line treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma.

The China National Medical Products Administration has granted a conditional marketing approval to selinexor for use in combination with dexamethasone in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have previously received treatment and whose disease is refractory to at least a proteasome inhibitor, an immunomodulatory agent, and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody.

The combination of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte cell therapy with lifileucel or LN-145 and pembrolizumab demonstrated encouraging efficacy and safety in patients with advanced melanoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and cervical cancer who were naïve to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Cancer physicians have long disagreed about whether stem cell transplants from donors with an asymptomatic blood condition called clonal hematopoiesis put recipients at risk for subsequent health problems.

Positive findings from the phase 3 CLEAR, CheckMate 9ER, CheckMate 214, and KEYNOTE-426 trials have led to the swift adoption of combination immunotherapy as the preferred frontline standard of care for the treatment of patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma, which has been further enforced by a recommendation from the European Association of Urology RCC Guidelines Panel.

Investigators hope to improve upon the efficacy and tolerability of androgens in the treatment of breast cancer with the October 13, 2021, initiation of the phase 3 ARTEST trial.

Naval Daver, MD, discusses he encouraging early data that has been reported with KO-539 and other menin inhibitors in acute myeloid leukemia, data presented with novel KO-539 combinations in this disease, and next steps for research.

A supplemental new drug application has been submitted to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare or the use of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki as a treatment in select patients with HER2-positive unresectable or recurrent breast cancer.

The Signatera personalized minimal residual disease test will be leveraged in the phase 2/3 CIRCULATE-US trial to inform treatment strategies in patients with early-stage colorectal cancer.

The addition of lenalidomide to rituximab maintenance treatment significantly improved progression-free survival compared with rituximab alone following first-line chemoimmunotherapy in patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

A biologics license application has been submitted to the FDA seeking the approval of a proposed biosimilar for trastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody that is utilized in the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer and metastatic gastric cancers.

Cardiac angiosarcoma is an exceptionally rare cancer that has become national news because of the recent death of acclaimed fashion designer, Virgil Abloh. He was 41 years old when he died in November 2021, following a 2-year battle with the disease, which is an aggressive subtype of soft-tissue sarcoma.

Jorge E. Cortes, MD, has been an investigative leader for nearly 30 years in the development of numerous leukemia treatments.

Approval of the drug abatacept opens up bone marrow transplant as an option for many more patients with cancer or blood disorders — especially patients of diverse ethnicities, who have extra difficulty finding a good match

The FDA approvals of several targeted therapies, such as sotorasib, amivantamab-vmjw, and mobocertinib, as well as immunotherapeutic strategies, such as adjuvant atezolizumab, represent significant advances made in 2021 for the treatment of patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

The Board of Directors of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer is pleased to announce the appointment of Karen L. Kelly, M.D. to the position of Chief Executive Officer, effective Spring 2022.

A phase 3 clinical trial will compare the safety and efficacy of a co-formulation of pembrolizumab and quavonlimab plus lenvatinib, and that of pembrolizumab, belzutifan, and lenvatinib, vs pembrolizumab/lenvatinib alone in the frontline treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

The potent, highly selective, next-generation PI3Kδ inhibitor parsaclisib demonstrated activity and an acceptable safety profile in patients with Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor-naïve relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

Despite their rarity, the management of desmoid tumors has been an area of significant clinical change as the field has shifted away from aggressive surgical interventions to active surveillance and systemic therapies that are less morbid for patients.

The FDA has approved the imaging product TLX591-CDx as a radioactive diagnostic agent for PET of prostate-specific membrane antigen positive lesions in patients with prostate cancer who have suspected metastasis who are candidates for initial definitive therapy, and in those with suspected recurrence based on elevated serum prostate-specific antigen level.

Breast surgeon Suzanne B. Coopey, MD, FACS, has joined Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute, where she will serve as Director of the Breast Program at the soon-to-open AHN Wexford Hospital.

Early identification of patients with liver-only metastatic colorectal cancer who are eligible for resection is crucial to determining their course of treatment and what role modalities like chemotherapy will play in their treatment strategy.

A panel of breast cancer experts shared their insights on 4 recently approved targeted therapies for patients with relapsed HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Malin Hultcrantz, MD, PhD, discusses the efficacy of belantamab mafodotin, as well as standard management for common adverse effects associated with the treatment.

Steven L. Spitalnik, MD, discusses the evolution of red blood cell storage and the potential impact the Hemanext storage technique could have for patients with hematologic malignancies.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of single-agent pembrolizumab for use as an adjuvant treatment in adult patients with renal cell carcinoma who are at increased risk of recurrence after nephrectomy, or following nephrectomy and the resection of metastatic lesions.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion in favor of the approval of enfortumab vedotin as a monotherapy in the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

Pembrolizumab demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in disease-free survival vs placebo as a postnephrectomy adjuvant therapy in patients with renal cell carcinoma at intermediate-high or high risk of recurrence, and in those who are M1 with no evidence of disease.

Real-world data from the PACIFIC-R trial evaluating durvalumab following chemoradiotherapy in patients with stage III, unresectable non–small cell lung cancer provide evidence supporting the agent’s efficacy in this population, solidifying its role as a standard-of-care treatment