Jason M. Broderick

The CARTITUDE-4 study found that cilta-cel reduced the risk of death by 45% compared to standard of care in patients with multiple myeloma.

Datopotamab deruxtecan elicited encouraging antitumor activity in patients with advanced/metastatic ovarian and endometrial cancer and progressive disease following platinum chemotherapy.

The combination of encorafenib, cetuximab, and FOLFIRI showed promising antitumor activity in patients with BRAF V600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer.

Reid W. Merryman, MD, discussed the latest developments with minimal residual disease assays in the management of patients with lymphoma.

The phase 2 PONALFIL trial evaluating a ponatinib regimen shows promise for long-term survival in adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome–positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

A high complete response rate was achieved in patients with BCG–unresponsive NMIBC using the combination of cretostimogene grenadenorepvec and pembrolizumab, according to final phase 2 CORE-001 trial results.

A retrospective analysis of the phase 3 IMmotion010 trial suggests that KIM-1 levels might hold promise as a biomarker in renal cell carcinoma.

Based on a post-hoc analysis of the ARAMIS trial, darolutamide was associated with lower rates of PSA and radiological progression vs placebo as well as improving overall survival in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

A post-hoc analysis showed suspending enzalutamide does not impact quality of life in patients with nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer in the phase 3 EMBARK trial.

Cabazitaxel plus abiraterone showed improved survival results for patients with previously treated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The addition of PSMA-PET imaging to multi-parametric MRI was associated with an improvement in the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer.

Three-year data showed durable clinical activity with nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg in patients with high-risk, BCG-unresponsive non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer with carcinoma in situ with or without papillary tumors.

Over three-fourths of patients with BCG-unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with TAR-200 achieved complete responses in the phase 2b SUNRISE-1 trial.

Enfortumab vedotin-ejfv plus pembrolizumab improves survival in patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Positive results have been reported from phase 1/2 KEYMAKER-U03B study, and belzutifan plus lenvatinib is being further investigated in the phase 3 LITESPARK-011 study (NCT04586231).

With encouraging overall response and disease control rates, lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab has the potential to be a frontline treatment option for non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

According to new COSMIC-021 data, atezolizumab combined with cabozantinib may be active in patients with urothelial carcinoma.

In patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated in the phase 2 HCRN GU16-257 trial, the combination of transurethral resection of the bladder tumor with nivolumab and chemotherapy showed promise.

LuPSMA added to standard of care led to a nearly 40% reduction in the risk of death versus standard of care alone in the phase 3 VISION study.

Improved outcomes for younger African American patients is associated with increased prostate-specific antigen screening.

Localized metastatic lesions were detected with a high correct localization rate (CLR) and positive predictive value (PPV) with the investigational prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)–targeted PET imaging agent 18F-DCFPyL.

According to findings from the phase 1b COSMIC-021 trial presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program, cabozantinib and atezolizumab demonstrated clinically meaningful activity in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, including those with high-risk clinical features.

Encorafenib plus cetuximab with or without binimetinib continued to show an overall survival benefit compared with cetuximab plus irinotecan-based regimens as treatment of patients with BRAF-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer in the updated findings from the phase 3 BEACON CRC clinical trial.

“Ide-cel demonstrated frequent, deep, and durable responses in heavily pretreated, highly relapsed/refractory patients with myeloma. Overall, ide-cel provides an attractive option for the treatment of patients with triple-class exposed relapsed/refractory myeloma."

“The PFS advantage in favor of continuous dosing was observed in younger and older patients, men and women, patients with and without prior immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy, and in patients with normal and elevated baseline LDH levels."

In the phase III VELIA trial, the addition of veliparib to frontline induction chemotherapy expanded the number of complete responses and CA-125 responses in patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer compared with chemotherapy alone, according to results from an exploratory analysis.

Following its success in the phase III PRIMA study, frontline niraparib maintenance demonstrated positive patient-reported outcomes, as well as met biomarker-defined and other secondary endpoints, according to 3 analyses to be reported as part of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology 2020 Annual Meeting.

To enhance outcomes for patients with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma, an in-depth review of the available data is required. As a start, Sonali M. Smith, MD, University of Chicago Medicine, reviewed the clinical trial findings that are currently informing treatment selection in the frontline iNHL paradigm, at 24th Annual International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies.

A pathologic complete response rate of 44% was observed with a neoadjuvant durvalumab (Imfinzi)-based regimen administered to patients with triple-negative breast cancer, according to results of a phase I/II study presented in a poster at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

In patients with triple-negative breast cancer or those with PD-L1–positive breast cancer across several subtypes, durvalumab as maintenance therapy, may improve outcomes compared with chemotherapy, according to an exploratory analyses from the phase II randomized SAFIR02-IMMUNO trial presented at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.