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Avelumab is considered a new standard-of-care treatment for patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma who have not progressed on frontline platinum-containing chemotherapy after the agent demonstrated overall survival improvement for this patient population in a phase 3 clinical trial setting.

The FDA has granted approval top loncastuximab tesirine for the treatment of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, according to a press release from ADC Therapeutics.

The FDA has approved the VENTANA MMR RxDX panel, a device that determines if patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer are eligible for treatment with dostarlimab-gxly monotherapy.

Thomas Hutson, DO, PharmD suggests the areas new research for non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma should explore.

The FDA has granted priority review to the sterile injectable therapy SH-111 for the treatment of pediatric patients with T-cell leukemia.

The eligibility for and responses to genome-targeted oncology agents increased in United States among patients with cancer from 2006 to 2020.

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to dostarlimab-gxly for the treatment of adult patients with recurrent or advanced endometrial cancer that has progressed on or following prior treatment with platinum-containing chemotherapy and whose cancers have a specific genetic feature known as dMMR, as determined by an FDA approved test.

A novel liquid biopsy test for the detection of lymph node metastasis in individuals with high-risk submucosal colorectal carcinoma has been developed.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology following the FDA approval announcement for trilaciclib, Jared Weiss, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, discusses the use of trilaciclib in clinical practice and how it can improve patient quality-of-life by reducing the rate of neutropenia.

The first large study of Black patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors is underway to uncover differences in response to immunotherapy in Black patients compared with White patients.

The Zangmeister Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio has joined the American Oncology Network, LLC and the Sarah Cannon Research Institute as a strategic research site, according to a press release by AON.

In the phase 1/2 AUGMENT-101 clinical trial, treatment with the novel menin-MLL small molecule inhibitor SNDX-5613 led to robust clinical responses in patients with mixed lineage leukemia rearranged and NPM1c-mutant relapsed or refractory acute leukemias.

The FDA has granted a regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation to the allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy ALLO-715 for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma,.

Anthony Mato, MD, MSCE, discusses the use of a triplet combination of the novel Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor DTRMWXHS-12, the mTOR inhibitor, everolimus, and the IMiD pomalidomide for the treatment of relapsed/refractory Richter’s transformation and de novo diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD, discusses the chance of cardiovascular toxicities with BTK inhibitors and the safety of acalabrutinib.

According to a new study, marital status and education level may impact treatment and overall outcomes for patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced that they are not perusing the regulatory submission for apalutamide and abiraterone acetate as treatment of chemotherapy-naïve metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer after the combination was not found to show significant benefit over the control combination of prednisone and abiraterone acetate.

The FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to bemarituzumab for the first-line treatment of patients with HER2-negative metastatic and locally advanced gastric and gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma who harbor FGFR2b overexpression or amplification.

William H. Bradley, MD discusses the 5-year follow-up of the ongoing SOLO-1 trial, which is determining the efficacy of maintenance olaparib in patients with BRCA1/2-mutated advanced ovarian cancer.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Katelyn Handley, MD, discussed two studies on ovarian cancer subtypes and the use of a frailty index to determine patient outcomes before, during, and after ovarian cancer debulking surgery.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to CA-4948, a first-in-class, small-molecule inhibitor of IRAK4, for the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.

The FDA has granted priority review for 2 supplemental biologics license applications for enfortumab vedotin-ejfv for the treatment of a subset of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

A new report on ibrutinib-resistant mantle cell lymphoma patient-derived xenograft mouse models shows the potential benefit of the EZH1/2 inhibitor OR-S1, as other similar inhibitors have shown benefit in patients with hematologic cancers.

Recent updates to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s guidelines for renal cell carcinoma reflect quick integration of new agents and combination regimens to provide patients with RCC with more treatment options and the most up-to-date options.

GlaxoSmithKline plc has announced that they will stop enrolling patients in the phase 2 INDUCE-3 and INDUCE-4 trials while simultaneously ending the use of feladilimab, originally GSK3359609, for the treatment of PD-L1-positive recurrent locally advanced or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma after the recommendation of the Independent Data Monitoring Committee.

Darovasertib, a selective protein kinase C inhibitor, demonstrated promising response rates, survival, and reduction in tumor size as treatment of patients with metastatic uveal melanoma treatment both alone and in combination with binimetinib, according to preliminary results from a 7-armed phase 1/2 clinical trial.

The FDA has lifted a partial clinical hold on a phase 1 clinical trial of SBP-101 in combination with the standard-of-care agents gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel as treatment of patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

The FDA has approved nivolumab in combination with certain chemotherapies for the initial treatment of advanced or metastatic gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, and esophageal adenocarcinoma.

In patients with breast cancer, who were predominantly hormone receptor–positive, 37.8% had a conversion to HER2-positive status that led to significant benefit from frontline treatment with taxane-trastuzumab with or without pertuzumab.

Pirtobrutinib showed promising efficacy and safety as treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma, demonstrating the potential to serve an unmet medical need.