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The FDA has approved ivosidenib (Tibsovo) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory myelodysplastic syndromes with a susceptible IDH1 mutation, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

Tian Zhang, MD, MHS, details how updated data presented at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting from trials such as KEYNOTE-426 and CLEAR have showed the sustained efficacy of VEGF plus immunotherapy combinations vs sunitinib in the first-line setting; discusses where the immunotherapy-only combination of ipilimumab and nivolumab fits in the frontline setting; and highlights how data from CONTACT-03 provided key insights on the use of immunotherapy in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma after progression on a prior immune checkpoint inhibitor.

As a result of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, positive trends are becoming apparent regarding mortality rates for patients with cancer living in the states that have adopted Medicaid expansion.

Nephrectomy with immune-targeted therapy was associated with a progression-free survival benefit compared with immunotherapy alone in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Danielle K. DePalo, MD, explains the lack of research directly comparing first-line treatment options for patients with unresectable melanoma in-transit metastases, expands on the safety and efficacy of 3 treatment modalities for these patients, and underscores the need for more data to inform the management of these patients.

Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD, Chair of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

The intravesical chemotherapy delivery system TAR-200 provided sustained and durable responses in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive, high-risk, non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

The United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has granted conditional marketing authorization to epcoritamab-bysp monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma after 2 or more systemic therapy.

Uwe Platzbecker, MD, discusses how to navigate decisions for the first-line treatment of anemia in patients with lower-risk MDS in light of luspatercept’s approval, expands on key data from the COMMANDS trial, and addresses potential concerns from clinicians who are uncertain about when to utilize this agent in the frontline setting in clinical practice.

Patients with EGFR-mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer who experienced disease progression after treatment with osimertinib experienced a progression-free survival benefit with amivantamab plus chemotherapy with or without lazertinib compared with chemotherapy alone.

The Trop-2 directed antibody drug conjugate datopotamab deruxtecan demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival vs docetaxel in patients with advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer, however those with squamous histology did not experience a benefit.

Health Canada has approved relugolix for the treatment of men with advanced prostate cancer.

Bortezomib, rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, prednisone, and cytarabine hydrochloride generated robust responses with a tolerable safety profile when delivered as first-line therapy in patients with marginal zone lymphoma.

The combination of sobuzoxane and etoposide plus rituximab prolonged survival and showcased a tolerable safety profile in patients with previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma aged 80 years and older.

The combination of amivantamab and lazertinib reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 30% compared with osimertinib alone as frontline therapy for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring classical EGFR sensitizing mutations.

The addition of mRNA-4157 to pembrolizumab led to clinically significant improvements in relapse-free survival and distant metastasis–free survival vs pembrolizumab alone in patients with high-risk resected melanoma.

The combination of lenvatinib, pembrolizumab, and chemotherapy had a manageable safety profile and elicited preliminary antitumor activity in patients with metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Continued treatment with lenvatinib monotherapy after the completeion of combination therapy with pembrolizumab and lenvatinib resulted in sustained clinical benefit vs chemotherapy alone in patients with previously treated advanced endometrial cancer.

Treatment with lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetran improved radiographic progression-free survival compared with abiraterone acetate or enzalutamide in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who were taxane naïve and experienced disease progression on a prior second-generation androgen receptor pathway inhibitor.

The novel CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody EX103 displayed a favorable safety profile and produced preliminary antitumor activity in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Datopotamab deruxtecan elicited a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival vs chemotherapy for patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-low or -negative, metastatic breast cancer.

Lenvatinib in combination with pembrolizumab led to tumor shrinkage and duration of response benefits compared with sunitinib across subgroups of interest in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Building an innovative cancer research project takes time, creativity, and most importantly, a team of scientists working together on why a new way to treat cancer or keep the cancer from spreading to other parts of the body.

The European Commission has approved fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor an activating HER2 mutation and who require systemic therapy following platinum-based chemotherapy with or without immunotherapy.

Patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer whose disease was deficient mismatch repair/microsatellite instability-high, TP53 mutated, or had no specific molecular profile, experienced a survival benefit when treated with dostarlimab-gxly plus chemotherapy vs placebo plus chemotherapy.

Frontline treatment with the combination of enfortumab vedotin-ejfv and pembrolizumab led to a statistically significant improvement in overall survival vs chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors who experienced progression following prior therapy experienced a significant improvement in terms of progression-free survival after treatment with cabozantinib compared with placebo.

Treatment with combinations using sotorasib at multiple dose levels and panitumumab led to improved progression-free survival vs standard of care in patients with chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer harboring KRAS G12C mutations.

Treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy prior to the administration of chemoradiation led to statistically significant improvements in progression-free survival and overall survival compared with chemoradiation alone in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer.