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The PARP inhibitor rucaparib bested physician’s choice of therapy for men with BRCA-altered metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in the phase 3 TRITON3 study.

Treatment with the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy idecabtagene vicleucel is safe and effective for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy demonstrated a promising objective response rate in platinum-ineligible patients with metastatic urothelial cancer after progression on an immune checkpoint inhibitor.

Patients diagnosed with bone metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer and treated with radium-223 showed lower incidences of treatment-related adverse events or treatment discontinuation, particularly when used in the front-line setting.

Yann-Alexandre Vano, MD, discusses the main findings from the phase 2 BIONIKK trial that were presented at the 2023 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

Novel treatments are needed to replace transplant and prevent graft-vs-host disease in order to improve patient outcomes.

A 90-day complete response rate of 92% was observed with bispecific CAR T-cell therapy for patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

Tumor mutation burden was linked with improved survival while some alterations were linked with inferior outcomes from treatment with enfortumab vedotin for urothelial carcinoma.

At 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.

Ruxolitinib elicited higher responses at day 28 compared with best available therapy in most cytopenia-based subgroups and had durable responses at day 56, according to a post hoc analysis of the REACH2 trial.

According to findings presented at the 2023 Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings, experts did not identify clear correlation between the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ruxolitinib in patients with graft-vs-host-disease.

Findings from the second interim analysis of the phase 3 MAGNITUDE study showed the positive benefit of niraparib plus abiraterone and prednisone in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

In 8 patients with various hematologic malignancies who received an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant with 7/8 non-permissive HLA mismatched donors, Orca-T led to a 100% survival rate.

In a single-institution phase 1 trial, patients with large B-cell lymphoma had high overall response rates with CD22-directed CAR T-cell therapy.

Findings from the phase 2 HCRN GU 16-257 trial may help advance a more personalized approach to the management of muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

The phase 3 REACH2 trial showed that early treatment with ruxolitinib 10 mg led to higher response rates vs that seen with the best available therapy in patients with grade II-IV steroid-refractory acute graft-vs-host disease.

Looking at a retrospective analysis of data from a single-center, the use of ruxolitinib decreased non-relapse mortality and improved overall survival for patients with steroid-refractory acute graft-vs-host-disease.

Final safety and efficacy read outs of the EQUATE trial show durable clinical responses and a favorable safety profile for acute graft-vs-host disease.

Long-term outcomes did not differ among de novo late acute graft-vs-host disease and classic acute graft-vs-host disease, showing they should be treated the same way.

Guru P. Sonpavde, MD, discusses The Cancer Genome Atlas and key takeaways for community oncologists.

Yago Nieto, MD, PhD, discusses the findings from a phase 2 trial evaluating treatment with panobinostat, gemcitabine, busulfan, and melphalan for high-risk or relapsed/refractory myeloma.

At the final analysis of the ARAMIS study, darolutamide reduced the risk of death by 31% compared with placebo in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Though not statistically significant, data from the PROpel study of abiraterone acetate and olaparib were noted to be the longest overall survival results seen in a first-line phase 3 trial in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Patients with first-line metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer had improvements in radiographic progression-free survival irrespective of homologous recombination repair status when treated with talazoparib and enzalutamide.

Regardless of prior therapies, brexucabtagene autoleucel showed a survival benefit in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, according to subgroup analyses of the phase 3 ZUMA-3 trial.

The triplet therapy should become the new standard of care for this patient population, according to recent data.

Treating patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer with 177Lu-PSMA-617 within 6 months of completing radium showed to be clinically feasible and well tolerated.

While JCAR021 showed durable responses, there was a high rate of neurotoxicity when given at a dose of 7 x 106 cells/kg in patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Patients treated with darolutamide were less likely to develop disease metastasis or discontinue treatment 6-18 months after treatment initiation compared with enzalutamide or apalutamide.