MRD Negativity Improves With D-VRd in Newly Diagnosed, Transplant-Eligible Myeloma
September 6th 2024Updated findings from the PERSEUS study found that patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma benefited from a treatment regimen involving daratumumab, bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone before and after autologous stem cell transplant.
Understanding Clonal Hematopoiesis in Kidney Cancer Could Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes
November 11th 2023In a presentation at the 2023 International Kidney Cancer Symposium, Maxine Sun, PhD, MPH, discussed the relationship between clonal hematopoiesis in patients with kidney cancer and their risk for cardiac events.
Induction Chemotherapy Before Chemoradiation Betters Survival in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer
October 23rd 2023Data presented at the 2023 ESMO Congress and showed that induction chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation reduced the risk of progression or death by 35% vs chemoradiation alone in patients with cervical cancer.
Phase 3 PhALLCON Trial of Ponatinib and Reduced-Intensity Chemo Shows Promise in Ph+ ALL
June 9th 2023Findings from the phase 3 PhALLCON trial show that ponatinib plus reduced-intensity chemotherapy could be a new standard of care for patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Adding Pembrolizumab to Chemo Does Not Significantly Improve Survival in EGFR+ NSCLC
June 6th 2023Data presented at the ASCO 2023 Annual Meeting showed that the addition of pembrolizumab to pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy did not statistically improve survival in patients with TKI-resistant EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.
Adjuvant Osimertinib Extends Survival in EGFR-Positive, Stage IB-IIIA NSCLC
June 4th 2023ADAURA is the first global phase 3 study to demonstrate statistically significant and clinically meaningful disease-free survival and overall survival benefit with adjuvant targeted therapy for patients with EGFR-mutated, stage IB to IIIA NSCLC.
First-line Treatment With Talazoparib and Enzalutamide Improves rPFS in mCRPC
February 16th 2023Patients with first-line metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer had improvements in radiographic progression-free survival irrespective of homologous recombination repair status when treated with talazoparib and enzalutamide.