Hayley Virgil

Significant overall survival and progression-free survival benefits were observed with combination regimens containing immunotherapy in combination with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, along with tolerable safety in patients with renal cell carcinoma to Suzanne Cole, MD, FACP noted, however, that the cost of these combination can dim the light on the advantages.

Ursula Matulonis, MD, took stock of the role for immunotherapy agents in the treatment landscape for ovarian, recurrent/advanced endometrial, and recurrent/advanced cervical cancers.

A general framework can be utilized to guide treatment decision in patients with follicular lymphoma, according to John P. Leonard, MD. During a presentation for the 38th Annual Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium, Leonard also explained that bulk of disease, comorbidities, and toxicity, among others are all factors that impact treatment decisions.

Results from the DUNE trial of durvalumab added to tremelimumab in patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors of gastroenteropancreatic and lung origins showed limited activity, according to a presentation held during the 2020 European Society of Medical Oncology Virtual Congress.

In the phase 3 ATTRACTION-4 study, nivolumab added to chemotherapy led to a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival and induced higher overall response rates in patients with previously untreated advanced or recurrent gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer, according to results presented during the 2020 ESMO Virtual Congress.

Patients with completely resected stage IIIAN2 non–small cell lung cancer should not be recommended for post-operative radiotherapy, according to results from the phase 3 LungART trial that were presented during the ESMO Virtual Congress 2020, due to nonstatistically significant increase in disease-free survival versus those treated in the control group.

Abemaciclib in combination with tamoxifen led to an improvement in overall survival compared with abemaciclib alone in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. Notably, the benefit of the combination was observed across all subgroups in the study, according to findings from the final OS analysis of the nextMONARCH trial presented during the 2020 European Society of Medical Oncology Virtual Congress.

Acalabrutinib sustained superiority in terms of extended progression-free survival with a tolerable safety profile in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which was inclusive of patients with high-risk features, results from the phase 3 ASCEND trial (NCT02970318) show.