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Relapse-free survival was prolonged in patients with stage III/IV ovarian cancer who received frontline maintenance treatment with Vigil immunotherapy compared with placebo. This was especially true for patients with BRCA1/2 wild-type disease, according to results from the phase II VITAL study.

Frontline niraparib in addition to bevacizumab as maintenance demonstrated impressive clinical activity in patients with advanced ovarian cancer who achieved either a complete or partial response to frontline platinum-based chemotherapy with bevacizumab, according to the phase II OVARIO trial.

Following its success in the phase III PRIMA study, frontline niraparib maintenance demonstrated positive patient-reported outcomes, as well as met biomarker-defined and other secondary endpoints, according to 3 analyses to be reported as part of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology 2020 Annual Meeting.

To enhance outcomes for patients with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma, an in-depth review of the available data is required. As a start, Sonali M. Smith, MD, University of Chicago Medicine, reviewed the clinical trial findings that are currently informing treatment selection in the frontline iNHL paradigm, at 24th Annual International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies.

Jorge E. Cortes, MD, explains how ruxolitinib is used to treat various myeloproliferative neoplasms and which patients require other therapies.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Jason Westin, MD, MS, FACP, discussed the pros and cons of administering R-CHOP in the frontline setting of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. He also discussed other options for patients who have limited responses to the standard-of-care.

For patients receiving chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, cytokine release syndrome and neurotoxicity are the most common toxicities. A multidisciplinary approach to care is vital for these patients, explained Kimberly Noonan, DNP, ANP-BC, AOCN, in a presentation during the 24th Annual International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies.

Sameer Desai, MD, discusses the changing treatment landscape for lymphomas.

At the 24th Annual International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies, host by Physicians’ Education Resourceâ, LLC, Ruben Mesa, MD, who is director of the UT San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, presented available and emerging therapy options for patients who require additional MF therapy following ruxolitinib.

Because diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the US, clinical investigators are eager to make progress with novel agents, despite recent advances, said Craig Moskowitz, MD, in a presentation during the 2020 International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies: Focus on Leukemias, Lymphomas, and Myeloma.<br /> &nbsp;

In an interview with Targeted Oncology at the 2020 International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies, Noopur Raje, MD, discussed emerging CAR T-cell therapies in multiple myeloma. She also explained how CAR NK cells differ from other CAR agents.

Rushang D. Patel, MD, discusses the background to the single center experience with ruxolitinib as treatment of patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Evolving data about possible therapeutic targets for the treatment of transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy may introduce narsoplimab as a new therapy for management of patients with this challenging complication.

Evaluation of an expansion cohort of the pivotal phase I/II ZUMA-1 trial in patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma revealed that early steroid intervention may have a positive impact on the toxicity profile of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy with axicabtagene&nbsp;ciloleucel, according to findings presented during a poster session at the 2020 Transplantation &amp; Cellular Therapy Meetings in Orlando, Florida.

Use of an off-the-shelf chimeric antigen receptor T-cell product may be feasible for use in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies for whom no other available therapies exist, according to results of a phase I trial in adult and pediatric patients that were presented at the 2020 Transplant &amp; Cellular Therapies Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Outpatient treatment with&nbsp;lisocabtagene maraleucel&nbsp;had consistent efficacy and safety with that of a previously reported clinical trial involving patients who were treated at university medical centers, according to results of 3 studies reported at the 2020 Transplantation &amp; Cellular Therapy Meetings in Orlando, Florida.

In an interview with&nbsp;Targeted Oncology at the&nbsp;2020 Transplantation &amp; Cellular Therapy Meetings, Craig Sauter, MD, discussed the retrospective real-world review of patients with hematologic malignancies who developed cytopenia post-chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.

Treating chronic graft-versus-host disease with ruxolitinib in both adult and pediatric patients was found to be safe and effective based on data from 2 separate single-center retrospective analyses whose results were presented during a poster session at the 2020 Transplantation &amp; Cellular Therapy Meetings in Orlando, Florida.

Tania Jain, MBBS, discusses the role of ruxolitinib as treatment of graft-versus-host disease.

In an interview with&nbsp;Targeted Oncology, Martin T. King, MD, PhD,discusses INTREPId following his poster presentation of the trial design at the 2020 Genitourinary Cancer Symposium. He also discusses other another promising studies being presented at the conference.

Most patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma whose disease progresses after immunotherapy given either alone or in combination with other agents receive subsequent treatment with VEGF tyrosine kinase inhibitors or mTOR inhibitors. When administered post-immunotherapy, cabozantinib is associated with superior median progression free survival, according to retrospective data from a real-world study of patients treated at 16 Italian referral centers.

Stereotactic body radiotherapy combined with nivolumab was associated with &ldquo;high&rdquo; disease control and overall survival rates in a phase II study of pretreated patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, according to lead investigator Cristina Masini, MD, who presented the data at the 2020 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

Combining a broad-spectrum tyrosine kinase inhibitor with an immune checkpoint inhibitor resulted in a high disease control rate in a preliminary dose-finding trial involving patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

A fourth of patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma responded to single-agent therapy with an oral hypoxia-inducible factor&ndash;2&alpha; inhibitor, which achieved a disease control rate of 80%, a preliminary clinical trial showed.

Nivolumab plus gemcitabine and cisplatin administered in the neoadjuvant setting to patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer resulted in a pathologic nonmuscle-invasive rate of 66% and a pathologic complete response rate of 49%.

Bradley McGregor, MD, clinical director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, senior physician, instructor in medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses the goals of the phase III CheckMate-9ER trial, which is evaluating cabozantinib combined with nivolumab in previously untreated patients with advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

The combination of durvalumab and olaparib may have activity as neoadjuvant therapy in the treatment of muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma.

Alexandra Drakaki, MD, assistant professor of medicine, hematology, and oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses the goals of the phase Ib/II MORPHEUS trial, which is an umbrella study evaluating several second-line immunotherapy combinations in patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Apalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy reduced the risk of second progression or death regardless of hormonal or taxane therapy as the first subsequent life-prolonging therapy in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

Men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer had inferior immune responses with the combination of sipuleucel-T and radium-223 but improved clinical outcomes as compared with sipuleucel-T alone, a small randomized trial showed.