Gina Mauro

Patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia will now be assesses with the off-the-shelf cell therapy CYNK-001 after a case of conversion to minimal residual disease negativity at its highest dose level.

First-in-human results of a phase 1 trial (NCT03319940) evaluating AMG 757 in patients with small cell lung cancer revealed early signals of efficacy and a favorable safety profile in findings presented at the European Lung Cancer Virtual Congress 2021.

The time to initiate durvalumab treatment following chemoradiation was delayed in the real-world setting trial PACIFIC-R (NCT02125461) compared with the earlier phase 3 PACIFIC trial.

Without requiring red blood cell transfusions, luspatercept-aamt led to a mean increase in hemoglobin from baseline levels in 77.1% of patients compared with in 0% treated with placebo in patients with non-transfusion–dependent β-thalassemia in the phase 2 BEYOND trial, according to a presentation during the European Hematology Association 2021 Virtual Congress.

Pimitespib, a heat shock protein 90 inhibitor doubled the progression-free survival and prolonged the overall survival compared with placebo in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor that is refractory to imatinib, sunitinib, and regorafenib, according to results from the phase 3 CHAPTER-GIST-301 trial.

In patients with ERBB2/ERBB3-expressed, mutated, or -amplified uterine cancer, the combination of pertuzumab and trastuzumab led to a 37% disease control rate, according to results from the Targeted Agent Profiling and Utilization Registry study.

Looking at 6.5 years of follow-up data from the phase 3 CheckMate-067 trial shows maintained outcomes in patients with advanced melanoma on nivolumab alone, or with ipilimumab.

No clinical activity was elicited by selumetinib in pediatric and young adult patients with refractory cancers.

Updated results from the phase 2 CodeBreaK100 trial were presented by Ferdinandos Skoulidis, MD, PhD during the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Across several previously unreported subgroups of patients with advanced urothelial cancer who have progressed on first-line platinum-containing chemotherapy avelumab as frontline maintenance plus best supportive care demonstrated a survival benefit compared with BSC alone.

Data from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 trial presented in a press briefing ahead of the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting showed that adjuvant pembrolizuumab achieved significant disease-free survival improvement compared with placebo.

AB-205 demonstrated robust effects and an encouraging safety profile in patients with systemic lymphoma undergoing high-dose therapy and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Patients with relapsed or refractory aggressive large B-cell lymphoma showed promising results from the administration of lisocabtagene maraleucel in both inpatient and outpatient non–university hospital settings.

Ixazomib plus cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone elicited higher rates of efficacy compared with ixazomib/dexamethasone, followed by single-agent ixazomib maintenance, in patients with transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma/

Investigators reported an objective response rate of 73% for the anti–B-cell maturation antigen teclistamab in patients with relapsed/ refractory multiple myeloma, according to results from an ongoing study.

Infection mortality rate were lower in patients with multiple myeloma who were coronavirus disease 2019 positive and received maintenance lenalidomide than those who did not receive lenalidomide, according to study results presented during the 2nd European Myeloma Network Meeting.

In preclinical models of acute myeloid leukemia with FLT3 internal tandem duplication mutation, AMG 176 in combination with gilteritinib demonstrated the ability to synergistically target the disease.

In preclinical models of KRAS-mutant cancer, voruciclib, a CDK9 inhibitor, showed early activity as monotherapy and when used in combination with sotorasib and adagrasib, according to findings presented during Week 1 of the 2021 AACR Annual Meeting.

Primary results from the phase 3 CHRONOS-3 study revealed a survival benefit with the combination of copanlisib in combination with rituximab over rituximab plus placebo in patients with relapsed indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Data presented during the 2021 Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Meetings showed that treatment with Orca-T achieved a significant reduction in cases of graft-versus-host disease, an impressive GVHD relapse-free survival rate, and a lack of treatment-related mortalities while demonstrating scalability potential.

Progression-free survival and overall survival were improved with pembrolizumab and lenvatinib when compared with chemotherapy in patients with advanced endometrial cancer who had received prior platinum-based chemotherapy in the phase 3 Study-309/KEYNOTE-775 trial.

In patient with metastatic renal cell carcinoma who have brain metastases, treatment with cabozantinib displayed significant intracranial and extracranial, results from a retrospective analysis presented during the 2021 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium show.

Data presented during the 2021 Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Meeting showed that treatment with Orca-T, achieved a significant reduction in cases of graft-versus-host disease and other impressive outcomes.

A subgroup analysis from the phase 3 JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial demonstrated that Japanese patients with advanced urothelial cancer whose disease did not progress on frontline chemotherapy benefited from the addition of avelumab to best supportive care in the first-line maintenance setting.

In a pivotal phase 2 trial, administration of narsoplimab to patients with high-risk hematopoietic stem cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy led to impressive responses and a favorable survival benefit.

Survival was not improved with the immunotherapy combination of pembrolizumab and ipilimumab in comparison with pembrolizumab monotherapy in the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who had high PD-L1 expression and did not harbor EGFR or ALK aberrations, findings from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-598 trial showed.

Sotorasib demonstrated significant benefit in patients with KRAS G12C–mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer, according to results from the phase 2 portion of the CodeBreaK 100 trial to be presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Larger, retrospectives studies are needed after NRG1 fusions were detected in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

In the phase 2 JACCRO GC-07 trial, patients with stage III gastric cancer who received the combination of S-1 and docetaxel in the adjuvant setting had a 29% reduction in the risk of relapse.

The final overall survival analysis of the phase 3 ClarIDHy trial demonstrated that treatment with ivosidenib tablets achieved a 21% reduction in the risk of death in patients with IDH1-mutant cholangiocarcinoma compared with placebo.