Vedolizumab and Standard Prophylaxis Proves Effective in Preventing GI aGVHD
February 19th 2023The phase 3 GRAPHITE study showed that vedolizumab plus standard prophylaxis after unrelated allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation was more effective vs placebo for the prevention of lower gastrointestinal graft-vs-host disease.
CheckMate 648 trial of Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab or Chemo in ESCC Continues to Show Survival Benefit
January 20th 2023Nivolumab with chemotherapy or ipilimumab continued to have a clinically meaningful survival benefit vs with chemotherapy alone in patients with treatment-naïve advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
MEDI5752 Plus Chemotherapy Produces Long DOR, But High Dose Comes With High Toxicity
September 11th 2022Chemotherapy added to 1500 mg of MEDI5752, a PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific monoclonal antibody, led to a doubling in duration of response compared with pembrolizumab and chemotherapy in patients with treatment-naïve nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.
Sacituzumab Govitecan Shows Strong ORR, PFS Benefit in HER2-Low/IHC0 Metastatic Breast Cancer
September 10th 2022The antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan demonstrated superior overall response rate and progression-free survival in patients with breast cancer with limited options due to lack of high HER2 expression.
Promising Safety and Efficacy Seen With Higher-Dose Rhenium-186 Nanoliposome in Recurrent Glioma
September 9th 2022Rhenium-186 nanoliposome at doses exceeding 100 Gy showed promising results in patients with recurrent glioma, according to phase 1 findings from the ReSPECT-GBM trial presented at ESMO 2022.
Patritumab Deruxtecan Elicits Promising Response in HER3-Expressing mBC
June 4th 2022According to Ian E. Krop, MD, PhD, patritumab deruxtecan is responsible for producing clinically meaningful and durable antitumor activity in patients with HER3-expressing metastatic breast cancer, warranting further research.
Hispanic Pediatric Patient With Neuroblastoma Show Worse Overall Survival
May 27th 2022After identifying a survival disparity among non-White Hispanic patients with pediatric neuroblastoma, investigators will next examine the interaction of survival and race, ethnicity, and poverty, acknowledging the intersectionality of these factors due to structural racism in the United States.
gLOH-High May Be a Marker for Improved Response to Talazoparib in mCRPC
April 12th 2022Results from a post-hoc exploratory analysis of the TALAPRO-1 study signal that high genomic loss of heterozygosity may be assiciated with enhanced response to talazoparib in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Deep PSA Response With Apalutamide Linked to HRQOL Improvement in Advance Prostate Cancer
February 17th 2022A look back at apalutamide treatment in the the TITAN and SPARTAN trials showed that deep prostate-specific antigen responses lead to improvement in certain health-related quality of life factors.