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Androgen-deprivation therapy with the addition of apalutamide was effective when used in patients with high-risk biochemically relapsed prostate cancer.

A novel FGFR inhibitor, RLY-4008, induced high response rates and encouraging durability in patients with FGFR inhibitor–naïve cholangiocarcinoma harboring an FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement, according to data from the phase 1/2 ReFocus trial presented at the 2022 ESMO Congress.

At the 2022 ESMO Congress, results from the NICHE-2 trial showed neoadjuvant immunotherapy in patients with mismatch repair deficient colon cancer had notable responses to the therapy well above neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Updated findings from the phase 3 ADAURA trial showed a significant disease-free survival improvement with the use of adjuvant osimertinib compared with placebo in patients with EGFR-mutated, stage I to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer.

A more tailored approach to treatment with PD-1 and CTLA-4 immune checkpoint blockade led to improved responses for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma in both the first- and second-line settings, according to final results from the phase 2 TITAN-RCC trial.

Patient-reported outcomes from the DESTINY-Breast04 trial showed a quality-of-life benefit from treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan compared with physician’s choice of therapy in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-low metastatic breast cancer.

Results from the phase 2 SWOG S181 study show that for patients given pembrolizumab in the neoadjuvant setting had a significant EFS benefit compared with adjuvant pembrolizumab.

Signs of an overall survival benefit were seen with a regimen of olaparib plus abiraterone acetate and prednisone or prednisolone as a first-line therapy for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to updated data from the phase 3 PROpel trial.

Even after additional follow-up, the CLEAR trial showed a benefit for the combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab over sunitinib in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

DCC-3116 demonstrated safety and tolerability across various dose levels in patients with solid tumors harboring a RAS or RAF mutation, according to findings from a phase 1/2 trial presented at the 2022 ESMO Congress.

Multiple blood-based biomarkers suggest potential responses to treatment with maintenance avelumab for patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma from the phase 3 JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial, according to an exploratory analysis presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2022.

Androgen deprivation therapy plus abiraterone acetate and prednisolone resulted in a clinically meaningful overall survival benefit, but this in combination with enzalutamide fell short in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

After extended follow-up, continued benefit was seen with the combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab in patients with advanced endometrial cancer who previously received platinum chemotherapy, updated efficacy and safety findings from the phase 3 Study 309/KEYNOTE-775 trial showed.

Maintenance rucaparib (Rubraca) induced a progression-free survival (PFS) improvement in patients with newly diagnosed ovarian cancer compared with placebo, which was also seen across all prespecified subgroups.

Adjuvant nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with localized renal cell carcinoma at high risk for relapse after nephrectomy failed to significantly improve disease-free survival vs placebo in part A of the phase 3 CheckMate 914 trial.

Patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma did not show statistically significant improvement in event-free survival with pembrolizumab plus chemoradiation vs chemoradiation alone.

Positive signals from a blood-based multi-cancer early detection test led to cancer diagnoses after the test indicated potential cancers in 1.4% of individuals from an otherwise healthy cohort of participants in the the prospective PATHFINDER study.

Improvement in overall survival for patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma was demonstrated with xevinapant plus standard chemoradiotherapy vs matched placebo at the 5-year mark.

Adding a limited course of tremelimumab to durvalumab plus chemotherapy induced long-term OS in patients with metastatic NSCLC, even when stratified by histology and mutation status.

Perioperative nivolumab in patients with RCC, at high risk for recurrence, did not see an improved RFS, but analyses within the phase 3 trial could inform future research.

Atezolizumab given post-resection did not improve patients’ with renal cell carcinoma, at increased risk for recurrence, clinical outcomes compared to placebo.

New results from the DESTINY-Gastric02 study include responses, survival data for patients receiving trastuzumab deruxtecan for with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Naporafenib, in combination with several therapies, showed strong efficacy for patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

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.