Pipeline Report: October 2021 | articles

The Food and Drug Administration has granted recognition to a partial listing of the Oncology Knowledge Base, a comprehensive precision oncology knowledge databased developed by investigators and physicians at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

The ATR inhibitor RP-3500 demonstrated a manageable safety profile and promising early antitumor efficacy in patients whose tumors harbor select genomic alterations when administered at doses of 100 mg or more.

Treatment with the next-generation anthracycline annamycin was found to result in preliminary clinical activity without dose-limiting toxicities in patients with soft tissue sarcoma lung metastases.

The administration of NBTXR3 monotherapy activated by radiotherapy resulted in encouraging survival improvements in difficult-to-treat elderly and frail patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who are ineligible for cisplatin and intolerant to cetuximab.

The bicycle toxin conjugates BT5528 and BT8009 have showcased preliminary signs of antitumor activity and encouraging tolerability when administered to patients with solid tumors such as urothelial cancer and ovarian cancer.

The allogeneic CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy CTX110 was found to elicit encouraging responses with favorable tolerability in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies, according to data from the phase 1 CARBON trial.