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James Harding, MD, discusses the need for genomic testing in biliary tract cancers.

Eric Pujade-Lauraine, MD, PhD, discussed PARP inhibitors and the benefits of various testing methods for HRD, in an interview with Targeted Oncology ahead of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer.

Ursula A. Matulonis, MD, discusses the effect of the PARP inhibitor niraparib on recurrent ovarian cancer.

After long-term follow-up, olaparib maintenance therapy demonstrated progression-free survival benefit in almost half of the patients with ovarian cancer compared with 21% for those who received placebo, including consistent benefit in high- and low-risk patients.

At the Society of Gynecological Oncology Virtual Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer data from the phase II OVARIO study continued to show the progression free survival benefit for heavily pretreated patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

Shannon Westin, MD, MPH, FACOG, discusses the rationale of using durvalumab, a PD-L1 inhibitor, with or without olaparib.

Progression-free survival and overall survival were improved with pembrolizumab and lenvatinib when compared with chemotherapy in patients with advanced endometrial cancer who had received prior platinum-based chemotherapy in the phase 3 Study-309/KEYNOTE-775 trial.

The addition of the investigational anti–PD-1 immunotherapy agent, dostarlimab, to niraparib and bevacizumab demonstrated positive antitumor activity and tolerability in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

The combination of tilsotolimod and ipilimumab demonstrated a low objective response rate in patients with anti–PD-1–refractory advanced melanoma, missing the coprimary end point of the phase 3 ILLUMINATE-301 trial.

Andre Goy, MD, MS, discusses the results of the ZUMA-2 study of the chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy

Most of the time, evidence of a cancer therapy’s success in clinical trials is reassuring. This time, it was not.

Major thrombosis is a significant danger for patients with MPN who become infected with COVID-19, and antithrombotic prophylaxis does not appear to eliminate the risk.

Although chemotheray remains a standard in the first- and second-line setting of biliary tract cancer in the locally advanced and metastatic setting, further treatments are emerging rapidly.

The FDA has approved TheraSphere yttrium-90 glass microspheres for the treatment of patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

The FDA has granted CYNK-001, a natural killer cell therapy, with a fast track designation for the treatment of adult patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme, according to a press release from developer Celularity.

Sotorasib demonstrated significant benefit in patients with KRAS G12C–mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer who progressed after standard treatment, according to results from the phase 2 portion of the CodeBreaK 100 trial .

Bintrafusp alfa monotherapy demonstrated efficacy, durability, and a manageable safety profile in patients with locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer who have progressed or are intolerant to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy in a phase 2 study, but failed to meet the pre-determined threshold for a regulatory filing.

The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, which serves 12,000 patients a year in North Texas, is now offering their patients and caregivers the COVID-19 vaccine.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to ARX788 for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive gastric cancer, according to a press release from developer Ambrx.

Despite the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, major progress in cancer research has been made in the past year in the areas of molecular profiling, biomarker-driven treatment approaches, targeted therapies brought into earlier stages of disease, treatment combinations with limited toxicities, and treatments that extend survival for hard-to-treat cancers.

Luca Bertamini, MD, a hematologist oncologist at the Università delgi Studi di Torino, discusses outcomes and prognosis for patients with high-risk multiple myeloma.

The novel, selective hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha inhibitor belzutifan was granted a priority review by the FDA for the treatment of patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease–associated renal cell carcinoma who do not require immediate surgery.

In the United States, 1 in 3 patients with cancer and cancer survivors are unlikely to get or are unsure about getting a vaccine for COVID-19, according to a survey from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

In advanced medullary thyroid cancer, mortality may be predicted by serum carbohydrate antigen 19.9 (Ca19.9) positivity in patients as well as by doubling times less than 6 months and less than 1 year. Results of a retrospective study suggest that these 2 new prognostic factors should be considered when initiating treatment for patients with MTC.

Patients with relapsed or refractory high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia achieved a statistically higher rate of overall response when the glycoengineered, type I anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody ublituximab was added to the Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor ibrutinib, according to results from the phase 3 GENUINE study.

Undergoing colorectal screening can be a challenge for people who don’t have insurance or are underinsured, so the Colon Cancer Prevention Project was created in Kentucky to help establish programs to improve access to screening, including the Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening and Prevention Program.

A phase 3 trial for cemiplimab monotherapy in comparison with chemotherapy in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer who previously received chemotherapy treatment is being stopped early due to a unanimous recommendation by the Independent Data Monitoring Committee due to positive overall survival results.

The FDA has issued a complete response letter to PharmaEssentia Corporation for the company’s biologics license application for ropeginterferon alfa-2b-njft as a potential treatment for patients with polycythemia vera.

In an interview with Ecaterina Ileana Dumbrava, MD, discussed the ongoing study of BDC-1001 alone and in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer and other solid tumors.

The FDA has granted a fast-track designation to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, poziotinib for the treatment of previously treated patients with non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor a HER2 exon 20 mutation.