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Enzalutamide showed continued overall survival benefit in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer after over 5 years of follow-up.

BTX-1188 could prevent systemic inflammatory dose-limiting toxicities that are usually attributed to pure GSPT1 degradation due to its immunomodulatory properties from the IKZF1/3 degradation.

The combination of tislelizumab plus nab-paclitaxel demonstrated benefit and a tolerable safety profile in patients with high-risk non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Tislelizumab plus nab-paclitaxel as neoadjuvant treatment demonstrated benefit with a high rate of pathologic complete response in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

JSP191 combined with fludarabine, and low-dose total body radiation demonstrated facilitation of full donor myeloid chimerism, clearing of minimal residual disease, and a well-tolerated safety profile in older patients with myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia receiving non-myeloablative allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

Based on the encouraging efficacy signals of SOT101 plus pembrolizumab in these heavily pretreated patients with advanced solid tumors in the AURELIO-03 study, the AURELIO-04 trial is planned.

Regarding cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, what is most exciting is the remarkable complete response rate, up to almost 50%, according Jiaxin Niu, MD.

In a final overall survival analysis of CheckMate 9ER, investigators saw a continued survival benefit with first-line nivolumab plus cabozantinib compared with sunitinib in the intention-to-treat patients with untreated clear cell metastatic or advanced renal cell carcinoma.

In the phase 3 KEYNOTE-394 trial, pembrolizumab and best supportive care prolongs survival in patients.

Compared with ibrutinib, acalabrutinib demonstrates less toxicity burden In CLL.

In a randomized phase 3 trial, acalabrutinib plus venetoclax versus obinutuzumab plus venetoclax will be investigated for efficacy and safety with a noninferiority design in patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic leukemia.

In the phase 2 I-SPY 2 platform trial, receipt of targeted neoadjuvant chemotherapy did not appear to be based on race.

Investigators are looking into newer ways of using hypomethylating agents to treat patients with low-risk and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Olatoyosi Sobulo Odenike, MD, explored the risk factors for evolution to MPN AP/blast phase, outcomes for current treatment methods, and potential targeted therapies during a presentation.

Adapting therapy to patients using the available criteria may be the key to future treatment in patients with polycythemia vera.

Zanubrutinib has been approved by the FDA to treat adult patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

In the wake of immunotherapy combinations becoming available in breast cancer, including triple-negative breast cancer, the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer has published clinical practice guidelines for physicians treating in this setting.

During the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, multiple trials for targeted treatments were presented for soft tissue sarcoma. Dean Frohlich, PhD, and Brian A. Van Tine, MD, PhD, discuss the the results of some of these presentations, including the Spearhead 1 trial.

In a draft guidance for clinical investigators and sponsors, the FDA made recommendations on how to expand eligibility to patients with incurable cancer through clinical trial designs of investigational cancer drugs and biological products.

A prospective analysis demonstrated a trend toward worse prognosis for patients with metastatic breast cancer who were initially HER2 negative and switched to HER2 positive treated with HER2-directed therapies compared with those who were HER2 positive at diagnosis.

In a retrospective analysis of patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer and EGFR mutations treated with osimertinib, investigators found that body mass index of 25 kg/mq2 or more had a negative impact on survival outcomes.

A phase 2 trial of tislelizumab and another trial of Tumor Treating Fields accompanied by sorafenib are filling unmet needs in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, although more data are still needed in this space.

The phase 3 KRYSTAL-10 trial continues to look at the combination of adagrasib and cetuximab in patients with previously treated advanced colorectal cancer and a KRAS G12C mutation in their tumor.

Pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib demonstrated antitumor activity and a manageable safety profile in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma who have previously received immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.

As numerous approvals across cancer settings and emerging approaches are explored in clinical research, new findings presented at the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in June continue to encourage investigators.

A nonrandomized phase 2 trial of ibrutinib plus venetoclax in patients with treatment naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia showed durable remissions after more than 3 years of follow-up.

Pertuzumab, trastuzumab, and nab-paclitaxel used as neoadjuvant therapy in patients with HER2-positive locally advanced breast cancer showed comparable pathologic complete response with docetaxel, carboplatin, trastuzumab, and pertuzumab with less toxicities.

In an update of the ARROW trial, pralsetinib was well tolerated and demonstrated robust and durable anti-tumor activity in heavily pretreated patients with multiple RET fusion–positive advanced solid tumors.

Patients with previously treated non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations showed promising preliminary anti-tumor activity and an acceptable safety profile across all of the doses tested in a phase 1 trial of CLN-081.

The phase 2 VERSATILE-002 trial of PDS0101 in combination with pembrolizumab for patients with advanced head and neck cancer has expanded to include those who have progressed on prior treatment with checkpoint inhibitors.