Targeted Oncology interviews feature the world's leading oncologists sharing their insights on the latest news and advances in diagnostic testing, biomarkers, pathways, immunotherapy, and targeted therapeutics for better application into clinical practice.
HER2CLIMB Study Shows Efficacy in HER2 Breast Cancer With Brain Metastases
July 1st 2020Nancy U. Lin, MD, discusses the latest findings from the HER2CLIMB study of either tucatinib or placebo, added to trastuzumab and capecitabine, for patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who have brain metastases.
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Trastuzumab Deruxtecan Demonstrates Efficacy for mCRC in DESTINY-CRC01
June 29th 2020Salvatore Siena, MD, discusses the efficacy of the phase 2 DESTINY-CRC01 trial of trastuzumab deruxtecan in patients with HER2-expressing metastatic colorectal cancer who have progressed on 2 or more treatments in this setting.
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CheckMate 227 Induced Manageable Toxicities With Immunotherapy Combination in NSCLC
June 26th 2020Suresh Ramalingam, MD, FASCO, discusses the key takeaways regarding the toxicities observed in the phase 3 CheckMate 227 clinical trial, which evaluated immunotherapeutic agents nivolumab plus ipilimumab as treatment of patients with non–small cell lung cancer.
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Investigating How to Help Patients With Breast Cancer Stay on Therapy
June 25th 2020Julie Gralow, MD, discusses the use of patient-reported outcomes in the SWOG S1105 trial and different factors for patients with early-stage breast cancer on an aromatase inhibitor to see if they could predict who may be more likely to stop taking treatment early.
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Avelumab Plus Best Supportive Care Shows Efficacy in Urothelial Carcinoma
June 24th 2020Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, discusses the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial of maintenance avelumab plus best supportive care versus best supportive care alone after platinum-based first-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma.
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Mirvetuximab Soravtansine Combination Improves Responses in Platinum-Agnostic Ovarian Cancer
June 24th 2020Lucy Gilbert, MD, MSc, discusses the findings from a phase 1b trial in which mirvetuximab soravtansine was combined with bevacizumab in recurrent, high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer regardless of platinum sensitivity.
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Dabrafenib Plus Trametinib Demonstrates Benefit in BRAF-Mutant Melanoma
June 23rd 2020Axel Hauschild, MD, PhD, discusses the key findings from the phase 3 COMBI-AD clinical trial, which demonstrated sustained long-term relapse-free survival benefit with the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib compared with placebo in patients with resected, stage III BRAF V600E/K-mutated melanoma.
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Azacitadine Plus Pevonedistat Shows Efficacy in MDS/CMML or LB AML
June 23rd 2020Mikkael Sekeres, MD, discusses a phase 2 study of pevonedistat plus azacitidine versus azacitadine monotherapy in patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes /chronic myelomonocytic leukemia or low-blast acute myelogenous leukemia.
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Results Demonstrate Accuracy of the 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET for Prostate Cancer
June 16th 2020Thomas Hope, MD, discusses the efficacy of the 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET for the detection of pelvic nodal metastases in patients intermediate- to high-risk prostate cancer considered for radical prostatectomy with lymph node dissection.
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Evaluating the Potential for CAR T Cells as Treatment of Solid Tumors
June 15th 2020Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS, discusses the potential role of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy as treatment of solid tumors now that they have demonstrated safety and efficacy in some Hematologic Malignancies.
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Expert Explores Potential Role of Doublets and Triplets in IDH1-Mutant Acute Myeloid Leukemia
June 11th 2020Courtney D. DiNardo, MD, discusses the current treatment landscape for patients with IDH1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia and how potential doublet and triplet combinations may play a role in this setting.
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Exploring the Design for Longer Follow-Up of Radium-223 in mCRPC
June 4th 2020A. Oliver Sartor, MD, discusses the design for an observational study of disease characteristics and outcome of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who received 177Lu-PSMA after receiving radium-223.
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