Kristi Rosa

Data presented at the 2021 ESMO Congress suggest that pembrolizumab in addition to chemo with or without bevacizumab may become new standard of care in the frontline setting of cervical cancer treatment.

The FDA approved tisotumab vedotin for the treatment of adult patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer with disease progression on or after chemotherapy.

Treatment with Roxadustat was associated with promising results in chemotherapy-induced anemia in non-myeloid malignancies.

A seroconversion rate of 94% was identified in a diverse cohort of patients with cancer who had received the COVID-19 vaccine.

Increases were detected in all cancer screening procedures except for colonoscopies.

An official statement has been signed and issued by the National Comprehensive Cancer Center Network insisting that health care systems mandate COVID-19 immunizations for their workers

The FDA’s priority review designation to abatacept may help to expand the stem cell donor pool by lowering acute graft-versus-host-disease risk in both children and adults, experts say.

The Food and Drug Administration approved adjuvant nivolumab to treat urothelial carcinoma in patients who are at high risk of recurrence after undergoing radical resection, irrespective of prior neoadjuvant chemotherapy, nodal involvement or PD-L1 status.

The combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib has been FDA approved as a frontline therapy for the treatment of adult patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Treating patients with brentuximab vedotin in combination with doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine with and without consolidative radiotherapy resulted in strong efficacy and encouraging tolerability in early-stage, unfavorable-risk Hodgkin lymphoma.

The FDA has determined that more data are necessary to certify the clinical benefit of retifanlimab for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal.

Bristol Myers Squibb has chosen to withdraw the indication for single-agent nivolumab for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma with previous sorafenib treatment following a confirmatory phase 3 trial.

A recent study showed that belumosudil induced clinically meaningful, durable responses among a varied cohort of patients with chronic graft-versus-host-disease.

A diagnosis of COVID-19 was associated with an increased risk of respiratory problems and mortality in patients with urological cancer undergoing elective procedures for their disease.

The FDA has approved belumosudil for the treatment of patients aged 12 years and older with chronic graft-versus-host disease following failure of at least 2 prior lines of therapy.

The preliminary results of an early-phase study of rigosertib combined with nivolumab for the treatment of advanced metastatic KRAS-mutated non-small cell lung cancer are scheduled to be presented at an upcoming medical conference.

The FDA approval of daratumumab plus hyaluronidase-fihj (Darzalex Faspro) plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone (Pd) was supported by data from the APOLLO trial.

“For the first time, physicians can treat advanced urothelial cancer following treatment with a platinum-containing therapy and immunotherapy using an FDA-approved therapy that has demonstrated an OS benefit compared with chemotherapy.”

Symptomatic iron deficiency, a key challenge in facing polycythemia vera, might be effectively treated with rusfertide.

Phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 trials demonstrated that single-agent pembrolizumab resulted in improved DFS in comparison to placebo group.

Data from the phase 3 JUPITER-02 trial (NCT03581786) suggests that frontline toripalimab plus gemcitabine/cisplatin improves progression-free survival (PFS).

177Lu-PSMA-617 receives a breakthrough therapy designation to treat patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Gunagratinib (ICP-192), a potential therapeutic option for patients with cholangiocarcinoma, has been granted an orphan drug designation by the FDA.

Sacituzumab govitecan, an antibody drug conjugate, maintained survival and response benefits over chemotherapy regimens.

The FDA has accepted the biologics license application for a proposed biosimilar for pegfilgrastim, which had been developed by Lupin Limited.

The FDA has granted a priority review to the new drug application seeking approval of plinabulin plus granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.

Melphalan flufenamide was noninferior to pomalidomide in patients with relapsed or refractory myeloma.

The FDA has granted priority review to the biologics license application for ciltacabtagene autoleucel for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The FDA has approved piflufolastat F 18 injection, a prostate-specific membrane antigen–targeted positron emission tomography imaging agent to identify suspected metastasis or recurrence of prostate cancer.

The FDA has accepted a new drug application for maribavir for the treatment of post-transplant recipients with cytomegalovirus infection who are refractory and/or resistant to previous anti-CMV treatment.