In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Thierry Alcindor, MD, discusses the benefits of adding avelumab to perioperative chemotherapy for the treatment of gastroesophageal cancer in greater detail.
Sara Karlovitch
Sara Karlovitch is an associate editor with Targeted Oncology. She received a duel degree in Journalism and Government and Politics from the University of Maryland.
Articles by Sara Karlovitch
The FDA has granted a fast track designation to ALLO-605, a next-generation allogeneic CAR T-cell therapy for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
The first patient with marginal zone lymphoma has been dosed in the global phase 2 TIDAL study of zandelisib, a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) delta inhibitor, for the treatment of MZL and follicular lymphoma in patients who have received at least 2 or more prior therapies.
The FDA has granted approval to the combination of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and lenvatinib (Lenvima) for the first-line treatment of adult patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Metastasis-free survival can be an effective end point in clinical trials to support approval of castration-resistant prostate cancer therapies under certain conditions when overall survival is not feasible as an end point.
The addition of trastuzumab to chemotherapy for the treatment of early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer helps to reduce disease recurrence and can potentially reduce the mortality from breast cancer by a third worldwide.
The FDA has accepted a new supplemental biologics license application for pembrolizumab, an anti-PD-1 therapy, as a single agent for the treatment of patients with advanced endometrial carcinoma that is microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient, who have diseased progression following prior systemic therapy in any setting and are not candidates for curative surgery or radiation.
In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, Statish Shah, MD, the medical director of Gettysburg Cancer Center, discusses the OneOncology partnership in more detail and how it will benefit patients.
A non-randomized, open-label trial of AIC100, an autologous chimeric antigen receptor T-cell agent for the treatment of relapsed/refractory thyroid cancer, is currently recruiting patients at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, under the supervision of Koen van Besien, MD, PhD.
In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, Kamran A. Ahmed, MD, discussed the novel treatment strategy of combining radiotherapy with intrathecal trastuzumab/pertuzumab as well as and the rationale behind the combination.
In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, Rhonda L. Bitting, MD, discussed the efficacy results and key takeaways of a study investigating low-dose paclitaxel plus pembrolizumab in patients with platinum-refractory UC.
Bristol Myers Squibb has decided to withdraw the approval for romidepsin, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, for the treatment of adults with peripheral T-cell lymphoma who received at least 1 prior therapy after a confirmatory phase 3 study missed its primary end point.
In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, Joseph Kim, MD, an associate professor of internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, discuss the lack of clinical benefit of sapanisertib for the treatment of TSC1/TSC2mutated mUC.
The FDA has granted a fast track designation for nemvaleukin alfa, an interleukin-2 variant immunotherapy, for the treatment of mucosal melanoma.
In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, Robert Coleman, MD, discussed the evolving treatment paradigm of lung cancer and the role of molecular testing now and in the future.
In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Jorge A. Rios, MD, discusses recent advances in non–small cell lung cancer and the role targeted and immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy has played in this progress.
The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to TST001, an anti-Claudin18/2 monoclonal antibody, for the treatment of gastric cancer or gastroesophageal junction.
In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, Shannon N. Westin, MD, MPH, FACOG, discussed the DUO-E trial, its design, end points, and the need for novel endometrial cancer therapies.
Camidanlumab tesirine is a potential treatment option for relapsed or refractory lymphoma with a tolerable safety profile, particularly in patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma.
Wearable medical devices, whether they be smart watches or wearable at-home infusion devices or pumps, are playing a more prominent role in cancer care.
Between 2014 and 2018, there was an overall decline in cancer deaths in men, women, and children of all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Guiseppe Curigliano, MD, an associate professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Milano and the head of the Division of Early Drug Development at the European Institute of Oncology, discussed the HER2Climb study and the impact of tucatinib in HER2-positive breast cancer care.
DAY101, an investigational, oral, brain-penetrant, and highly selective type II pan-RAF kinase inhibitor for the treatment of rare, pediatric low-grade glioma, was granted a rare pediatric disease designation by the FDA.
The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to the anticancer drug paclitaxel-hyaluronic acid for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma.
The indication for nivolumab as a single agent for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients previously treated with sorafenib has been withdrawn from the US market.
Sintilimab in combination with the bevacizumab biosimilar, IBI305, is associated with a significant overall survival and progression-free survival benefit over sorafenib in the first-line setting for the treatment of Chinese patients with unresectable, hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma.
Oral MDM2 Inhibitor Milademetan Enters Phase 3 Study for Patients with De-Differentiated Liposarcoma
A phase 3 study has been initiated in order to evaluate the efficacy of the oral MDM2 inhibitor milademetan for the treatment of de-differentiated liposarcoma.
In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Bradley Monk, MD, FACCOG, FACS, discusses the OUTBACK trial, including the results, strengths, and challenges.
The UriFind test that utilizes DNA methylation detection for the diagnosis of bladder cancer has been granted a breakthrough device designation by the FDA.
The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to alrizomadlin, an MDM2-p53 inhibitor, for the treatment of stage 2b to 4 melanoma.