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A retrospective cohort of patients with metastatic urothelial cancer who received prior enfortumab vedotin had low efficacy when treated with sacituzumab govitecan, with the best outcomes coming from direct sequencing the two agents.

Darolutamide delays time to progression from mHSPC to mCRPC vs placebo while also increasing overall survival benefit.

Zanidatamab therapy led to confirmed responses, disease control, and favorable overall survival in pretreated HER2+ biliary tract cancer in an update of the HERIZON-BTC-01 trial.

Adding atezolizumab to bevacizumab plus chemotherapy did not derive benefit in recurrent ovarian cancer.

A post-hoc analysis showed suspending enzalutamide does not impact quality of life in patients with nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer in the phase 3 EMBARK trial.

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab demonstrates increased survival and response in patients with ovarian or gynecologic clear cell carcinoma.

By dramatically reducing the risk of disease progression in patients with stage III melanoma neoadjuvant nivolumab plus ipilimumab emerges as a new standard of care in this setting.

Belantamab mafodotin in combination with other therapies shows promise for patients with multiple myeloma following the first relapse.

Recent data shows that telehealth is comparable to quality of life to in-person visits for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Apalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy does not appear to negatively impact quality of life in patients with recurrent prostate cancer, while still improving progression-free survival.

The addition of retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy to cytoreductive surgery did not improve survival in advanced ovarian cancer.

Osimertinib given after chemoradiation in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring a EGFR mutation showed significant benefits.

Perioperative chemotherapy with improved OS vs neoadjuvant chemoradiation in resectable esophageal cancer.

Consolidation treatment with durvalumab after concurrent chemoradiation led to a survival benefit vs placebo for patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer, leading researchers to argue for a new standard of care in this setting.

Progression-free survival was numerically improved with pembrolizumab plus sacituzumab govitecan vs sacituzumab govitecan alone in patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Suresh Ramalingam, MD, principal investigator of the phase 3 LAURA trial, explains the study's evaluation of osimertinib in EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer.

Abemaciclib plus fulvestrant improved PFS compared with fulvestrant alone in certain patients with hormone receptor–positive/HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Tucidinostat plus R-CHOP demonstrated promising safety and efficacy outcomes in patients with previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma) expressing MYC and BCL-2.

Cabazitaxel plus abiraterone showed improved survival results for patients with previously treated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Inavolisib combined with palbociclib and fulvestrant improved results for patients with HER2-negative, hormone receptor–positive, PIK3CA-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Adagrasib significantly improved responses among patients with KRASG12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

A lower risk of disease recurrence was seen when combining anthracycline and chemotherapy to treat certain patients with breast cancer.

Protocol amendment with sacituzumab govitecan shows promising responses, but questions remain for the use of the therapy in patients with bladder cancer.

Results from the AURA trial show the survival benefits of cisplatin-based chemotherapy in combination with avelumab.

Improved results were seen with subcutaneous amivantamab vs its intravenous formulation in patients with refractory EGFR-mutated, advanced non-small lung cancer had improved responses with low rates of adverse effects with subcutaneous amivantamab vs its intravenous formulation.

The small molecule inhibitor selectively targeting HIF-2α DFF332 shows promising preliminary activity and favorable safety in patients with advanced clear cell renal carcinoma.

Combining encorafenib/binimetinib before nivolumab/ipilimumab did not improve progression-free survival in BRAF V600E/K+ metastatic melanoma.

Frontline amivantamab plus lazertinib reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 30% versus osimertinib in patients with high-risk EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

Peter Borchmann, MD, discusses the main takeaways from the GHSG HD21 study presented at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Over 8 years, dabrafenib and trametinib showed improved survival vs placebo in stage III melanoma, but overall and melanoma-specific benefits were not statistically significant.