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The proper management of chemotherapy-induced toxicities can have a significant impact on quality-of-life and outcomes for patients.

The use of a fitness tracking device as a prognostic tool was feasible and acceptable in a study evaluating 80 patients with colorectal cancer.

Data presented during the 2021 Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Meetings showed that treatment with Orca-T achieved a significant reduction in cases of graft-versus-host disease, an impressive GVHD relapse-free survival rate, and a lack of treatment-related mortalities while demonstrating scalability potential.

Half of all patients with hepatocellular carcinoma treated with the combination of regorafenib and nivolumab following progression on 2 lines of chemotherapy achieved disease control, according to initial results from a phase 2 proof-of-concept trial.

Positive efficacy and safety results observed with the proposed trastuzumab biosimilar, EG12014 in HER2-positive early breast cancer, has led the developer to plan regulatory filings in the United States, Europe, and China.

The FDA has approved idecabtagene vicleucel for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma after 4 or more prior therapies, including an immunomodulatory drug, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 antibody.

The biggest unanswered question in biomarker development for cancer is how to determine which patients will respond to targeted therapy or immunotherapy. Investigators around the world are trying to answer this through clinical trials and data mining, in addition to finding new tools to add to the mix.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Hun Ju Lee, MD, summarized the findings and future steps for the study of cirmtuzumab in patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

In a preplanned interim analysis of a phase 2 trial, derazantinib demonstrated antitumor efficacy and met the prespecified threshold for the trial to proceed to the next stage as planned for patients with inoperable or advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma harboring FGFR2 gene fusions, mutations, or amplifications.

In women with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer treated in a single-institution study at the Cleveland Clinic, the addition of paclitaxel to cisplatin for hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy during interval debulking surgery was associated with improved oncologic outcomes compared with cisplatin alone.

The RELATIVITY-047 study reached its primary endpoint for the fixed dose combination of relatlimab and nivolumab for patients with previously untreated metastatic or unresectable melanoma.

In relapsed and untreated patients with mantle cell lymphoma, the combination of obinutuzumab, ibrutinib, and venetoclax achieved molecular response rates and was found to be well tolerated, results from the phase 1/2 OAsIs trial demonstrate.

The FDA has granted 2 breakthrough device designations to the molecular residual disease test, Signatera.

Eric Pujade-Laurine, MD, PhD, discusses the importance of homologous recombination repair deficiency (HRD) testing to provide prognostic information and detect BRCA mutations in platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Maria Lia Palomba, MD, a hematologic oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discussed the efficacy and safety of liso-cel in patients with R/R MCL as observed in the phase 1 TRANSCEND NHL 001 study.

Administering corticosteroids prior to chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy with axicabtagene ciloleucel in adult patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma may positively impact the benefit/risk profile of axi-cel treatment.

Clinical development of the oral chemotherapy agent, tesetaxel is being discontinued as the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and other solid tumors after the FDA provided feedback on a pre-New Drug Application.

177Lu-PSMA-617, a targeted radioligand therapy, demonstrated improvement in both progression-free survival and overall survival as treatment of patients with progressive PSMA-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer compared with best standard of care alone in the phase 3 VISION trial.

Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, discusses immunogenic cell death and the results of using irinotecan versus oxaliplatin in an interview with Targeted Oncology.

An update from the phase 3 IMpower010 study shows that the study has met its primary end point of improvement in disease-free survival with atezolizumab versus use of best supportive care as treatment of patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Melphalan flufenamide has been added to the Multiple Myeloma Clinical Practice Guidelines of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have had at least 4 prior lines of therapy.

Tanya B. Dorff, MD, a medical oncologist at the City of Hope Cancer Center, discusses the reasoning behind using PSCA-targeted chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy and the design of this early study in an interview with Targeted Oncology.

The FDA has approved pembrolizumab in combination with platinum and fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with metastatic or locally advanced esophageal or gastroesophageal junction carcinoma who are not eligible for surgical resection or definitive chemoradiation.

Bexmarilimab, a novel anti-Clever-1 antibody, has shown signals of significant efficacy as a treatment of patients with 10 hard-to-treat solid tumors, according to an update from the phase 1/2 MATINS clinical trial.

The modified Appleby procedure, a technique that removes two-thirds of the pancreas, the spleen, and the celiac axis, offers patients with pancreatic cancer another treatment option.

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.