Endometrial Cancer

Bhavana Pothuri, MD, discussed the importance of testing and accessing treatment for patients with endometrial cancer.

In separate, live virtual events, Michael J. Birrer, MD, PhD, and Jubilee Brown, MD, surveyed participants on the treatment of a postmenopausal woman with stage IVA endometrial cancer after first-line chemotherapy.

Pembrolizumab plus standard-of-care chemotherapy improved survival in patients with endometrial cancer vs chemotherapy alone.

The FDA has approved a treatment regimen combining durvalumab with carboplatin and paclitaxel, followed by durvalumab monotherapy, for adults with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer that is deficient in mismatch repair.

During a Case-Based Roundtable® event, Michael J. Birrer, MD, PhD, moderated a discussion focusing on dosing and tolerability issues in treating patients with advanced endometrial cancer with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab.

Envafolimab given subcutaneously with lenvatinib shows promise in patients with advanced endometrial cancer who were not microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient after prior lines of therapy.

Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy led to a positive trend in overall survival among patients with endometrial cancer.

During a Case-Based Roundtable® event, Jubilee Brown, MD, discussed the efficacy and safety data from the KEYNOTE-775/Study 309 trial of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab in patients with mismatch repair proficient advanced endometrial cancer.

The phase 3 KEYNOTE-B21 study missed its primary end point, as pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy did not improve disease-free survival in newly diagnosed, high-risk endometrial cancer.

The FDA accepted the supplemental biologics license for dostarlimab plus standard-of-care chemotherapy for all patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer and set a Prescription Drug User Fee Act action date of August 23, 2024.

During a Case-Based Roundtable® event, Matthew A. Powell, MD, discussed the case of a patient with advanced endometrial cancer treated with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab who experienced grade 2 treatment-related hypertension.

Bhavana Pothuri, MD, and Krishnansu S. Tewari, MD, discussed the treatment options of a patient with advanced endometrial cancer and participants chose an immune checkpoint inhibitor to use for therapy.

Findings from the DUO-E study support potential new durvalumab-based treatment options for patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

During a Targeted Oncology™ Case-Based Roundtable™ event, Sharad A. Ghamande, MD, discussed the significance of the NRG-GY018/KEYNOTE-868 and RUBY trials of immune checkpoint inhibitor plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced endometrial cancer.

In the phase 3 LEAP-001, the combination of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab improved progression-free survival and overall survival among patients with endometrial cancer.

An increased risk of death and lower enrollment in clinical trials have been observed between Black and White patients with endometrial cancer.

A phase 2 study has begun enrolling patients with 0 to 1 prior lines of therapy to receive the mTOR inhibitor nab-Sirolimus plus letrozole for advanced or recurrent endometrioid carcinoma.

An unprecendented survival benefit was demonstrated with dostarlimab plus in patients with microsatellite instability-high primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

Findings from the KEYNOTE-868 trial demonstrated a positive survival outcome with pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy across endometrial cancer subgroups.

The combination of a novel mTORC1/2 inhibitor with paclitaxel could present a new way of targeting metastatic or persistent endometrial cancer.

A recent study identified key risk factors that link with increased symptom burden in patients with endometrial cancer.

Pembrolizumab shows promise in advanced endometrial cancer, cutting progression risk by up to 70%. The FDA has granted a priority review for this treatment option.

During a Targeted Oncology™ Case-Based Roundtable™ event, Maria Bell, MD, MPH, MBA, moderated a discussion on biomarker testing and treatment for a patient with extensive, well-differentiated, grade 1 endometrioid adenocarcinoma.

During an in-person Community Case Forum event in New Jersey, Thomas Herzog, MD, and various participants discussed their approaches to molecular testing and treatment for patients with recurrent endometrial cancer.

The study demonstrates the potential ctDNA holds for prognosis and risk stratification in patients with early-stage endometrial cancer.

Robotic peritoneal mesometrial resection with targeted or systemic lymphadenectomy demonstrated feasibility with acceptable complication rates in intermediate/high-risk endometrial cancer requiring second surgery after prior hysterectomy.

The combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib appears to be effective in for the treatment of patients with endometrial cancer, regardless of biomarker status.

Positive headline results from part 2 of the RUBY/ENGOT-EN6/GOG3031/NSGO trial support the potential use of dostarlimab as the backbone for therapies in mismatch repair proficient/microsatellite stable primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

During a Targeted Oncology™ Case-Based Roundtable™ event, Lisa Barroilhet, MD, MS, discussed recent trials that are relevant to a patient with recurrent endometrial cancer who relapsed less than a year after a complete response to doublet chemotherapy.