Gina Columbus

August 06, 2020

The FDA has approved belantamab mafodotin-blmf (Blenrep) as a treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who have received 4 prior therapies, including an immunomodulatory drug, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 antibody.

July 24, 2020

The FDA has approved the CAR T-cell therapy brexucabtagene autoleucel (Tecartus; formerly KTE-X19) as a treatment for adult patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).

July 15, 2020

The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) voted 12 to 0 in favor of approving belantamab mafodotin for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who have previously received at least 4 prior therapies, including an immunomodulatory drug, a proteasome inhibitor, and a CD38-directed antibody.

June 30, 2020

Following the arrival of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital launched the first Global COVID-19 Observatory and Resource Center for Childhood Cancer.

June 25, 2020

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab showed an improvement in relapse-free survival for this patient population.

June 23, 2020

The combination of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) plus carboplatin/etoposide continued to demonstrate an improvement in overall survival (OS) versus chemotherapy alone as a frontline treatment for patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC), regardless of PD-L1 and blood tumor mutational burden (bTMB) status.

June 10, 2020

Telemedicine will remain a mainstay even after the COVID-19 pandemic, says Andrew M. Evens, DO, MSc.

June 02, 2020

Infigratinib was found to demonstrate clinical activity in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma, regardless of what line of therapy it was administered, according to results of a retrospective analysis presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program.

May 22, 2020

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) for the treatment of patients with gastric cancer, including gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer.

April 29, 2020

A minimally invasive blood test has been found to be feasible to safely detect several types of cancers in patients without a history of malignancies, enabling treatment with curative intent in a subset of individuals, according to real-world results of an interim analysis of the DETECT-A study presented at the 2020 AACR Virtual Annual Meeting.