Chris Ryan

Updated findings from KEYNOTE-826 support the use of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab for select patients with cervical cancer.

The United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has updated their guidelines to recommend pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib for patients with previously treated endometrial cancer.

The FDA has issued a complete response letter for vic-trastuzumab duocarmazine.

Patients with PD-L1–positive, human papillomavirus 16–positive advanced, cervical cancer derived a median overall survival greater than 25 months with VB10.16/atezolizumab.

The FDA has pushed back the PDUFA date for quizartinib for select patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Milademetan, a MDM2 inhibitor, is associated with thrombocytopenia. An intermittent dosing schedule may help mitigate that adverse event.

Patients who received pembrolizumab plus cisplatin and gemcitabine achieved a median overall survival of 12.7 months, compared with 10.9 months with cisplatin and gemcitabine alone.

Among 22 patients with cervical cancer, the objective response rate with toripalimab, bevacizumab, and platinum-based chemotherapy was 77.3%.

The primary overall survival analysis of the phase 3 ZUMA-7 trial favors axicabtagene ciloleucel over standard of care therapy.

Among 5 patients who achieved a response with JTX-8064/pimivalimab, tumor reduction remained consistent for more than 6 months on study treatment.

Patritumab deruxtecan generated activity in patients with metastatic or unresectable EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer and HER3-expressing breast cancer.

Vorasidenib met its prespecified progression-free survival endpoint in the phase 3 INDIGO trial.

Patients with stage IB, II, or IIIA, EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer derived benefit with adjuvant osimertinib.

The New Drug Application for nirogacestat has been granted priority review for the treatment of adult patients with desmoid tumors.

At a median follow-up of 24.9 months, imaging-based progression-free survival was not reached among patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had received talazoparib plus enzalutamide.

The median overall survival with frontline liposomal irinotecan/NALIRIFOX was 11.1 months vs 9.2 months with nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine in patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Moxetumomab pasudotox-tdfk, a treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory hairy cell leukemia, will be permanently discontinued.

A combination of vusolimogene oderparepvec and nivolumab elicited early clinical activity in patients with cutaneous melanoma whose disease did not response to anti-PD-1 therapy.

Dostarlimab plus standard-of-care chemotherapy, followed by dostarlimab alone, met a predetermined progression-free survival end point in the phase 3 RUBY trial.

All 24 patients with Merkel cell carcinoma who received nivolumab plus ipilimumab responded to treatment, and 41% achieved complete responses.

Pembrolizumab plus physician’s choice of chemotherapy bested placebo plus chemotherapy in improving overall survival rates in patients with HER2-negative gastric cancer or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, regardless of PD-L1 expression.

In light of findings from the phase 3 DREAMM-3 trial, manufacturers have elected to withdraw belantamab mafodotin-blmf from the United States market.

Combining the doxorubicin analogue camsirubicin with pegfilgrastim yielded encouraging clinical activity in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

During the 40th Annual Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium, Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, discussesed best sequencing practices in metastatic melanoma.

Following promising efficacy data from the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 trial, the FDA has granted sacituzumab govitecan priority review status on the indication of HR+/HER2 metastatic breast cancer.

The median radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) was 11.2 months among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer who received rucaparib. In the control arm, median rPFS was 6.4 months.

Pegfilgrastim-fpgk, a biosimilar medicine of pegfilgrastim, has received FDA approval for patients with non-myeloid malignancies and a clinically significant incidence of febrile neutropenia.

Phase 2 findings from the CADENZA trial suggest that pivekimab sunirine may be effective against blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm, a rare and aggressive form of hematologic cancer.

Compared with gefitinib monotherapy, a combo regimen of gefitinib plus chemotherapy generated superior time to second progression in untreated non–small cell lung cancer.

A post hoc analysis from the phase 2 DREAMM-2 trial highlighted the ocular toxicity risks that belantamab mafodotin poses for patients with multiple myeloma.