September 20th 2024
The approval of amivantamab plus carboplatin and pemetrexed is supported by data from the phase 3 MARIPOSA-2 trial.
42nd Annual CFS: Innovative Cancer Therapy for Tomorrow®
November 13-15, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 5th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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Annual Hawaii Cancer Conference
January 25-26, 2025
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41st Annual CFS®: Innovative Cancer Therapy for Tomorrow
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Fighting Disparities and Saving Lives: An Exploration of Challenges and Solutions in Cancer Care
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Differentiating Adverse Events for Antibody-Drug Conjugates Across Solid Tumor Management
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Levy Discusses Treatment Considerations for a Patient With EGFR-Mutant NSCLC
May 10th 2018Ben Levy, MD, recently shared the treatment considerations and decisions he makes when treating patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer. Levy, clinical director of Medical Oncology, John Hopkins Sydney Kimmel Center, Washington, DC, explained his treatment decisions based on a case scenario during a <em>Targeted Oncology</em> live case-based peer perspectives presentation.
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Doubeni and Ritzwoller to Codirect New Lung Cancer Screening Initiative Under the NCI
May 9th 2018Chyke Doubeni, MD, chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Debra P. Ritzwoller, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente, have been chosen to codirect the new Center for Research to Optimize Precision Lung Cancer Screening.
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Frontline Atezolizumab Granted Priority Review by FDA for NSCLC
May 7th 2018Based on findings from the phase III IMpower150 trial, a supplemental biologics license application for atezolizumab has been granted a priority review by the FDA for use in combination with bevacizumab, carboplatin, and paclitaxel for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.
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Efficacy Results for Lorlatinib in Patients With ALK-Positive NSCLC
May 4th 2018Alice Shaw, MD, PhD, director of Thoracic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, discussed the efficacy results from a recent trial investigating lorlatinib as treatment for patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK) non–small cell lung cancer that had failed other treatments prior, including crizotinib (Xalkori) and other multiple ALK tyrosine-kinase inhibitors.
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Frontline Pembrolizumab Combo Submitted for FDA Approval in Squamous NSCLC
May 3rd 2018The FDA has received a supplemental biologics license application seeking approval for pembrolizumab in combination with standard chemotherapy as a treatment for patients with metastatic squamous non–small cell lung cancer.
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Antibiotics Reduce the Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in RCC, NSCLC
May 3rd 2018Antibiotics administered within 30 days of initiating treatment with PD-1 and PD­-L1 inhibitors were associated with poorer survival and increased risk for disease progression in patients with renal cell carcinoma or non-small cell lung cancer.
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A Look Back at FDA News in the Month of April
May 1st 2018The FDA approved several indications throughout the month of April 2018. A number of drugs were granted priority review and Fast Track designation. The FDA also halted all clinical trials using tazemetostat as treatment, and new initiatives were introduced to help ease the development of genetic and genomic-based tests. Check out our list of all FDA happenings from April 2018.
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FDA Gives Frontline Pembrolizumab Combo Priority Review for Full Approval in NSCLC
May 1st 2018Based on data from the phase III KEYNOTE-189 trial, frontline pembrolizumab has been granted a priority review by the FDA for use in combination with standard chemotherapy for patients with metastatic nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer, according to Merck, the manufacturer of the PD-1 inhibitor.
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Elucidating Additional Patient Subgroups Enhances Understanding of Cancer Biology
April 29th 2018The physician editor-in-chief of The Journal of Targeted Therapies in Cancer™, found 2 articles particularly interesting in this issue on therapeutic possibilities for patients with recurrent and metastatic epithelial cancers.. These articles show that combinatorial strategies harnessing conventional modalities such as radiation therapy (RT) and immune stimulatory approaches may have additional value for this population of patients.
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Larotrectinib Excites in TRK Fusion Cancers for Both Adult and Pediatric Patients
April 27th 2018When findings of larotrectinib, a pan-TRK inhibitor co-developed by Bayer and Loxo Oncology, that generated significant excitement for the treatment of both adult and pediatric patients with TRK fusion cancers, were presented during the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting, the small molecule was lauded as a future standard of care for patients with advanced solid tumors harboring a TRK fusion.
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The Revival of Vaccines in Lung Cancer
April 26th 2018This article provides a short historical overview of major lung cancer vaccination studies performed in the last decade to set the perspective on the development of current clinical trials of therapeutic cancer vaccines for patients with non–small cell lung cancer.
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PFS Benefit With Frontline Atezolizumab in NSCLC Sustained Across Biomarker-Driven Subgroups
April 20th 2018According to results from an ongoing trial presented at the 2018 AACR Annual Meeting, adding atezolizumab to chemotherapy and an angiogenesis inhibitor led to significant improvement in progression-free survival for patients with untreated advanced nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.
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Nivolumab Granted Priority Review by FDA for SCLC
April 19th 2018Based on data from the phase I/II CheckMate-032 trial, nivolumab has been granted a priority review by the FDA for the treatment of patients with small cell lung cancer with disease progression following 2 or more lines of therapy, according to Bristol-Myers Squibb, the manufacturer of the PD-1 inhibitor.
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Osimertinib Approved by FDA as First-Line Treatment for Patients with EGFR+ NSCLC
April 19th 2018Osimertinib (Tagrisso) has been approved by the FDA as a frontline treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer who have tumors harboring EGFR mutations (either exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R substitution mutations). This approval is based off results from a recent phase III study.
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