Nichole Tucker

Objective response rates for repotrectinib in patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer and NTRK fusion-positive advanced solid tumors are encouraging, according to interim data from the phase 2 TRIDENT-1 clinical trial.

The primary end point of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-590 trial was met when the combination of pembrolizumab and chemotherapy improved overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival as initial treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic esophageal cancer during an interim analysis of the study.

Frontline ilixadencel in combination with sunitinib as utilized in newly diagnosed patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the phase 2 MERECA clinical trial has updated survival data, which indicates continued survival benefit with the combination over sunitinib alone.

The severity of coronavirus disease 2019 increases with age in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. However, age and the existence of comorbidities may not impact death from COVID-19, according to results from a retrospective international study.

The FDA has accepted a Biologics License Application for a new 4-week fixed-dose regimen containing durvalumab and granted it Priority Review for the approved indications of non–small cell lung cancer, as well as bladder cancer.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Stephanie Weiss, MD, reviewed the treatment landscape for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and gave her predictions on how the paradigm will evolve for patients with brain metastases now that tucatinib has demonstrated efficacy.

Pazopanib was confirmed active with manageable toxicities as treatment of patients with progressive radioactive-iodine–refractory differentiated thyroid cancer, based on results of a prospective study.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology following the SNO Brain Metastasis Meeting, Nancy Lin, MD, discussed the treatment of brain metastases in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer in general, as well as the subgroup analysis of patients with brain metastases in the phase 2 HER2CLIMB clinical trial.

The Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee of the FDA voted 9 to 1 in favor of the approval of remestemcel-L, an allogeneic cell therapy, for the treatment of children with steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease.

Leronlimab, demonstrated improvement in total clinical symptom score at day 3 in patients with mild-to-moderate symptoms from coronavirus disease 2019.

Combining temsirolimus with a chemotherapy regimen as treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma is feasible, according to the phase 1b T3 clinical trial.

A phase 2 clinical trial of radioactive iodine–refractory differentiated thyroid cancer demonstrated that the lenvatinib starting dose of 24 mg is superior to the lower dose of 18 mg, missing the noninferiority primary end point of the study.

Adjuvant nivolumab prolonged disease-free survival as treatment of patients with resected esophageal or gastroesophageal junction cancer compared with placebo, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 CheckMate-577 clinical trial.

Overall survival and progression-free survival were improved with nivolumab plus ipilimumab and chemotherapy compared with chemotherapy alone as frontline treatment of patients with metastatic gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, or esophageal adenocarcinoma.

The FDA issued a complete response letter to Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc, developer of a sodium thiosulfate formulation, Pedmark, which is intended for the treatment of patients aged 18 years or younger with localized, non-metastatic solid tumors, as prevention of cisplatin-induced ototoxicity.

Sequential afatinib followed by osimertinib led to a median overall survival of 47.6 months in patients with EGFR T790M–positive non–small cell lung cancer, according to results from the real-world study, GioTag.

Nivolumab in combination with ipilimumab significantly improved overall survival (OS) in treatment-naïve patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) who were treated in the phase 3 CheckMate 743 clinical trial.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Grzegorz S. Nowakowski, MD, discussed the promise of the enzastaurin in the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treatment landscape and the ongoing phase 3 ENGINE study.

The combination of CS1001 and chemotherapy led to an improvement in progression-free survival among patients with stage IV squamous and non-squamous non–small cell lung cancer, according to data from the phase 3 CS1001-302 clinical trial assessed by an Independent Data Monitoring Committee, achieving the study’s primary end point.

A completed Biologics License Application was submitted to the FDA for omburtamab, an investigation monoclonal antibody, which is intended for the treatment of pediatric patients with central nervous system/leptomeningeal metastasis from neuroblastoma.

Physicians are at the early stages of realizing the varying mechanisms of resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors and the methods for managing and/or overcoming resistance.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Hearn Jay Cho, MD, PhD, and Irene M. Ghobrial, MD, both discussed the importance of the CureCloud study for the multiple myeloma community, and their hopes for what this study can achieve for myeloma patients and their physicians.

Lorlatinib demonstrated an improvement in progression-free survival compared with crizotinib as treatment of patients with treatment-naïve advanced ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 CROWN trial.

Lenalidomide in combination with rituximab (Rituxan, R2) induction has the ability to achieve high rates of complete molecular response (CMR), similar to rituximab plus chemotherapy, when used as frontline therapy in patients with follicular lymphoma (FL), according to results from the phase 3 RELEVANCE trial (NCT01650701).

Tisagenlecleucel, a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, showed evidence of clinical benefit for patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma, in terms of complete response rate, meeting the primary end point of the phase 2 ELARA clinical trial.

The FDA has accepted a supplemental Biologics License Application submitted for neoadjuvant pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy and adjuvant pembrolizumab monotherapy for the treatment of patients with high-risk early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.

The FDA accepted a supplemental Biologics License Application for and granted Priority Review to pembrolizumab in combination with chemotherapy, which is intended for the treatment of patients with locally recurrent unresectable or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer whose tumors express PD-L1.

The FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to osimertinib as adjuvant treatment of patients with stage IB-IIIA EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer following complete tumor resection with curative intent.

The combination of pembrolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel demonstrated clinically meaningful and sustainable responses, along with prolonged progression-free survival when administered as salvage therapy to patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Researchers conducted the first known health-related quality of life single-institution study to gather data on patients with Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, which showed positive and negative health-related quality of life outcomes for patients, following effective treatment.