Selpercatinib Improves Survival vs Chemotherapy in RET+ NSCLC
October 21st 2023Results phase 3 LIBRETTO-431 trial presented at the 2023 ESMO Congress showed selpercatinib monotherapy demonstrated better survival results than chemotherapy with or without pembrolizumab for patients with RET fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer.
Amivantamab Shows Long-term Efficacy/Safety in Post-Platinum EGFR Exon 20 Insertion+ NSCLC
April 2nd 2023Amivantamab treatment continued to show tolerability and efficacy in patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations whose disease progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy.
Cabozantinib Therapy Shows Early Efficacy in Advanced RCC After Checkpoint Inhibitor Combonation
February 18th 2023Early data from the phase 2 CaboPoint trial shows a promising response rate among patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma that progressed after checkpoint inhibitor based combination therapy.
Acceptable Safety Seen With Orca-Q in the Haplo SCT Setting for High-risk Hematologic Malignancies
February 17th 2023At 1 year, the GVHD-and–relapse-free survival achieved with Orca-Q was 75%, which was noted to compare favorably with prior data reported in context of myeloablative conditioning , haploidentical stem cell transplant, and posttransplant cyclophosphamide.
No Survival Advantage When Chemotherapy Is Given Prior to Transplant in R/R AML
February 14th 2023In the phase 3 ETAL3-ASAP trial, patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia given an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant had similar overall survival rates vs those given intense salvage chemotherapy first.
Yu Highlights Possible Sequencing Strategies in mCRPC
January 22nd 2023In a presentation delivered at the 2022 Large Urology Group Practice Association Annual Meeting, Evan Y. Yu, MD, discussed different sequencing strategies that can be utilized for patients with mCRPC and the data that support each approach.
Percentage of Actionable Mutations in Prostate Cancer Underscores Importance of Testing
November 12th 2022During a presentation, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, MD explained that homologous repair mutations and mismatch mutations in prostate cancer have therapeutic implications in the context of PARP inhibitors and PD-1 inhibitors.
Regorafenib Then Nivolumab Sequence Is Tolerable After First-Line HCC Treatment
October 14th 2022Data presented during the 2022 International Liver Cancer Association Conference showed that less than one-third of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who received regorafenib followed by nivolumab experienced grade 3 or 4 treatment-related adverse events.
Lenvatinib/Pembrolizumab Appears Safe in Metastasized Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma
September 13th 2022Data presented during the 2022 ESMO Congress showed lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab to elicit an objective response rate of 34.3% after 3 months in evaluable patients, meeting the primary end point of the phase 2 ATLEP trial.