ESMO Congress

The AMEERA-3 trial failed to meet its primary end point of superior progression-free survival for amcenestrant compared with endocrine therapy in patients with endocrine-resistant, ER-positive advanced breast cancer.

With 30 months additional follow-up on the EMPOWER-Cervical 1 trial, cemiplimab monotherapy showed efficacy in patients with metastatic cervical cancer.

At the 2022 ESMO Congress, results from the final analysis of the RATIONALE-301 study showed that tislelizumab monotherapy continued to have clinically meaningful anti-tumor activity vs sorafenib in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

An updated analysis of the KEYNOTE-365 study of pembrolizumab plus abiraterone showed that patients with chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer had prostate-specific antigen responses.

ADP-A2M4CD8, an autologous T-cell therapy, showed promising antitumor activity in several solid tumor types including ovarian, gastric, and urothelial cancer.

The 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.

While lasfoxifene alone did not meet the primary end points that researchers set out for it, they did find that it improves responses in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer harboring ESR1 mutations.

The oncolytic virus T-VEC showed consistent improvements at 5 years for patients with stage IIIB to IVM1a melanoma.

Adding abemaciclib to trastuzumab improved overall survival in women with with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-positive advanced breast cancer, according to new findings discussed at the 2022 ESMO Congress.

Paul A. DiSilvestro discusses the 7-year follow-up results from the phase 3 SOLO1/GOG-3004 trial.

Data from the Defi trial shows that nirogacestat had a significant reduction in the risk of disease progression for patients with progressive desmoid tumors.

A novel tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy showed a 50% reduction in the risk of death for patients with stage IIIC/IV unresectable, treatment-refractory melanoma.

A study of air pollutant particulate matter shows that it may be a mechanistic driver for lung cancer, showing a need to curb its source.

Although the combination use of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab did not induce statistically significant differences in the co-primary end points, the LEAP-002 trial induced the longest seen median overall survival with lenvatinib monotherapy in patients with unresectable HCC.

Findings presented at ESMO 2022 show the survival benefits of camrelizumab plus rivoceranib in patients with unresectable HCC.

The phase 2 DAWNA-2 trial of dalpiciclib plus letrozole or anastrozole led to a reduced the risk of disease progression vs chemotherapy alone in patients with treatment-naïve, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

The investigational carcinoembryonic antigen claudin 6–directed CAR T-cell therapy BNT211-01 displayed clinical activity in combination with a CLDN6-encoding mRNA vaccine in patients with CLDN6-positive relapsed/refractory advanced solid tumors.

Oleclumab plus durvalumab and chemotherapy did not increase clinical benefit rate for patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer, according to results from the phase 2 SYNERGY trial.

Treatment with sactiuzumab govitecan improved overall survival, objective response rate, duration of response, and overall quality of life vs physician’s choice in the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 study.

The phase 2 NEOpredict trial of nivolumab with or without relatilmab met its primary end point of feasibility of treatment in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer.

Rhenium-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.

Updated findings of the MONARCH 3 trial of abemaciclib added to a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor presented at ESMO 2022 revealed prolonged overall survival in hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Findings from the phase 3 SOLO1/GOG-3004 trial presented at ESMO 2022 support maintenance therapy with olaparib in women with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer.

Findings from the phase 3 ARIEL4 trial of rucaparib vs chemotherapy in relapsed ovarian cancer with deleterious BRCA1/2 mutations raised questions about optimal sequencing of PARP inhibitors at ESMO 2022.

Adding olaparib to bevacizumab maintenance therapy following treatment with first-line standard-of-care treatment revealed am improvement in overall survival in advanced ovarian cancer and homologous recombination deficiency.

Compared with the median PFS reported in the durvalumab arm of the phase 3 PACIFIC trial in patients with stage III non–small cell lung cancer, the median real-world progression-free survival with durvalumab was higher.

In patients with HER2-positive, metastatic colorectal cancer, fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki led to improved responses in patients with higher HER2 expression at baseline, whereas responses were seen irrespective of RAS- and PIK3CA mutation status and blood tumor mutational burden levels.

In patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, durvalumab added to platinum/etoposide chemotherapy continued to demonstrate an overall survival improvement compared with chemotherapy alone with a favorable safety profile, according to updated data from the phase 3 CASPIAN trial.

In patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer, giredestrant resulted in a greater relative reduction in Ki67 score from baseline to week 2 of a window of opportunity phase vs anastrozole.

Blood-based tumor mutational burden was hypothesized to be predictive of benefit on atezolizumab treatment in patients with non–small cell lung cancer, but a study has shown otherwise.