Nichole Tucker

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Laura Goff, MD, discussed the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma in the frontline and beyond.

Results from the phase CANOPY-2 clinical trial of canakinumab in combination with docetaxel as treatment of advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer did not yield a favorable survival outcome.

The FDA has granted approval to the VENTANA ALK CDx Assay as a companion diagnostic to identify patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer who may be eligible for treatment with the recently approved ALK inhibitor lorlatinib.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Margaret von Mehren, MD, reviews the recent advancements in the GIST treatment landscape. She also explains what’s needed to move the needle further in the future.

The FDA has granted an Orphan Drug Designation to Padeliporfin Immune Photo Activated Cancer Therapy for the treatment of adult patients with upper tract urothelial cancer.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Markus Moehler, MD, PhD, reviewed the potentially practice-changing data from the phase 3 CheckMate 649 clinical trial.

As part of the virtual 17th Annual Meeting of the International School of Gastrointestinal Oncology, a debate ensued around whether liver-directed or systemic therapy is best for the treatment of patients with HCC.

The FDA granted Orphan Drug Designation to cavrotolimod, for the treatment of patients with Merkel cell carcinoma, announced Exicure, Inc, in a press release.

The FDA has accepted a New Drug Application for pafolacianine sodium injection and granted it Priority Review as a potential adjunct for identifying ovarian cancer during surgery.

Blinatumomab consolidation demonstrated significantly prolonged event-free survival in pediatric patients with high-risk first-relapse B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia when compared with chemotherapy before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Pembrolizumab has been withdrawn from the United States market as a treatment option for patients with metastatic small cell lung cancer with disease progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy and at least one other prior line of therapy.

A New Drug Application was submitted to the FDA for ivosidenib tablets as a potential treatment option for patients with previously treated IDH1-mutated cholangiocarcinoma. The company is requesting Priority Review be granted to the application.

The FDA has granted approval to melphalan flufenamide in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, who have received at least four prior lines of therapy and whose disease is refractory to at least one proteasome inhibitor, one immunomodulatory agent, and one CD38-directed monoclonal antibody.

The rising prevalence of thyroid cancer and thyroid nodules, especially for differentiated thyroid cancer, has brought into question the management of disease as it is known today.

The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to cabozantinib for the potential treatment of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer that has progressed following prior therapy and who are radioactive iodine-refractory if eligible for radioactive iodine.

The FDA has granted a Breakthrough Therapy Designation to tipifarnib for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic HRAS-mutant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with variant allele frequency ≥ 20% after disease progression on platinum-based chemotherapy.

For the treatment of relapsed or refractory aggressive B-cell lymphomas, chimeric antigen receptor–modified T-cell therapy is becoming more widely used. Still, little is known about outcomes for patients who receive CAR-modified T-cell therapy beyond 2 years.

A novel DNA-mediated interleukin-12 immunotherapy, GEN-1, had been granted a Fast Track designation by the FDA for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer.

The FDA has accepted a supplemental New Drug Application for ruxolitinib and granted it Priority Review as a potential treatment option for adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older with steroid-refractory chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Enrollment of patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma in a phase 2 LYMRIT 37-01 PARADIGME study of third-line Lu lilotomab satetraxetan has increased accrual to 2-5 patients per month.

The FDA has granted approval to cemiplimab-rwlc, for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors have high PD-L1 expression, as determined by an FDA-approved test. Patients must either have metastatic or locally advanced tumors that are not candidates for surgical resection or definitive chemoradiation, and the tumors must not have EGFR, ALK, or ROS1 aberrations.

Adjuvant imatinib has demonstrated significant improvement in relapse-free survival over a 2-year period and a mild trend toward long-term improvement in failure-free survival as treatment of patients with high-risk gastrointestinal stromal tumors, according to 9.1-year follow-up results from a randomized phase 3 study.

In patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors who have received 3 or more prior therapies, there remain unmet needs to overcome resistance to the standard-of-care, imatinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, and prolong the 6.3-month+ progression-free survival achieved with the FDA-approved TKI ripretinib.

The FDA has granted a Breakthrough Therapy Designation to tebentafusp for the treatment of HLA-A*02:01-positive adult patients with unresectable or metastatic uveal melanoma .

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Carla Casulo, MD, discussed the modern management of patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma. She also explained how ongoing research may shape the future of the field.

High rates of sustained MRD negativity were achieved with daratumumab-containing combinations compared with the standard-of-care combinations, according to an exploratory analysis of 2 ongoing clinical trials.

The submission of 2 Biologic License Applications for enfortumab vedotin-ejfv have been made to the FDA for consideration as treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who have been previously treated with a PD-1/L1 inhibitor and who are ineligible for cisplatin.

The FDA has accepted a supplemental New Drug Application for zanubrutinib for the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

The FDA has accepted a Biologic License Application for Vicineum as a treatment option for patients with high-risk, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin-unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer, and granted it Priority Review,.

The immunotherapy combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab has improved survival and response rates compared with sunitinib, in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma with sarcomatoid histology, including those with intermediate and poor-risk features.