All Oncology News

Bemarituzumab combined with mFOLFOX6 demonstrated a 56% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with placebo and mFOLFOX6 as a frontline treatment in select patients with FGFR2b-positive advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

The combination of the anti-angiogenic multikinase inhibitor lenvatinib plus the anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab demonstrated promising antitumor activity and a manageable safety profile in previously treated patients with advanced gastric cancer, advanced metastatic microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair colorectal cancer, and advanced biliary tract cancers

January 15, 2021 - As the incidence of colorectal cancer in patients under 50-years-old increases, overall health-related quality of life among younger survivors is poorer, with social and functional well-being suffering more as treatment duration grows longer.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimens were not found to increase the risk for perioperative complications in patients who have potentially resectable advanced thoracic esophageal cancer.

January 15, 2021 - Combination treatment with adjuvant S-1 and docetaxel led to an estimated 29% reduction in the risk of relapse compared with S-1 alone in patients with stage III gastric cancer.

January 15, 2021- The FDA has approved fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma who have received a previous trastuzumab-based regimen.

January 15, 2021 - The FDA has approved daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj, a subcutaneous formulation of daratumumab, for use in combination with bortezomib, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone in the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed light-chain amyloidosis.

January 15, 2021 - Anlotinib, a multitarget kinase inhibitor, was found to significantly improve progression-free survival with a manageable safety profile when used in Chinese patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

January 15, 2021 - One-year overall survival was found increased the longer that patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma remained on treatment with liposomal irinotecan plus 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin.

January 15, 2021 - Pembrolizumab with trastuzumab and the combination of cisplatin and capecitabine appeared effective in treating HER2-positive advanced gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer, regardless of a patient’s PD-L1 status.

January 15, 2021 - Patients with esophageal/gastroesophageal cancer treated with nivolumab had improved esophageal-specific and general quality of life, although trends were similar in those treated with placebo.

January 15, 2021 - A novel combination comprised of camrelizumab and apatinib was found to have promising clinical efficacy with an acceptable safety profile when used as a second-line treatment in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

January 15, 2021 - Durvalumab has been approved in the European Union and the United Kingdom for a fixed-dose option of 1,500 mg every 4 weeks for use in patients with locally advanced, unresectable non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors have a PD-L1 expression of at least 1% and who have not experienced disease progression after platinum-based chemoradiation treatment.

January 15, 2021 - A novel artificial intelligence-based search tool made it easier for patients to find and understand cancer clinical trials, while also offering more clarity on how to enroll in them

January 15, 2021 - Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in combination with capecitabine and bevacizumab (Avastin) was found to show encouraging tolerability when used in patients with microsatellite stable (MSS) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), according to data from a phase 2 trial (NCT03396926) presented during the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

January 15, 2021 - The risk of a second metachronous contralateral germ cell testicular cancer is found to be significantly reduced with each additional cycle of cisplatin-based chemotherapy in patients.

January 14, 2021 - The FDA has approved crizotinib for the treatment of pediatric patients 1 year of age and older and young adults with ALK-positive relapsed or refractory, systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma.

January 14, 2020 — The National Medical Products Administration of China has accepted a supplemental new drug application for sintilimab injection for use in the second-line treatment of patients with squamous non–small cell lung cancer.

January 14, 2020 - The China National Medical Products Administration has approved tislelizumab for use in combination with 2 chemotherapy regimens in the frontline treatment of patients with advanced squamous non–small cell lung cancer.

Despite decades of research and drug development, however, the therapeutic utility of targeting RAS is limited to ruling out treatment with certain drugs in patients without RAS mutations.

Amer Zeidan, MD, MHS, discusses how survival for patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome remains poor, and although immunotherapy has been positioned as a holy grail, it would be preemptive to predict its future based on the number of small studies that have been performed to date.

Young Hope Rugo saved up her S&H Green Stamps to buy a children’s chemistry set from a Sears catalog. At the age of 8, Rugo knew she wanted to be a scientist.

Edward A. Stadtmauer, MD, highlights the emergence of several BCMA-directed therapies, such as monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, and bispecific antibodies, and how outcomes for patients with multiple myeloma have improved significantly.

Lecia V. Sequist, MD, MPH, discusses some of the advances that bore out in 2020 in HER2-mutant lung cancer and previewed anticipated developments in 2021.

Prakash Pandalai, MD, discusses the role of HIPEC in CRC peritoneal carcinomatosis and data from the PRODIGE 7 and PROPHYLOCHIP-PRODIGE 15 trials.

Michael J. Cavnar, MD, highlights the role of surgery in colon cancer, the role of tumor sidedness in informing surgical decisions, and research efforts that are being done to evaluate the utility of hepatic artery infusion pumps.

January 13, 2021 — The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to the BCMA-targeted trispecific T-cell activating recombinant protein construct as treatment for patients with multiple myeloma.

James Gerson, MD, discusses how he navigates treatment selection for patients with CLL and exciting developments in the pipeline.