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In a phase 2 study, frontline bortezomib, rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, prednisone, and cytarabine hydrochloride was well tolerated in patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin marginal zone lymphoma.

Amivantamab-vmjw with lazertinib showed positive survival results vs osimertinib as frontline therapy for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring classical EGFR sensitizing mutations.

Lindsey S. Treviño, PhD, discusses some of the disparities that currently exist among patients with cancer.

Pembrolizumab and mRNA-4157 demonstrated improvements in subgroups of resected melanoma, including those with BRAF-mutated tumors, in the phase 2 KEYNOTE-942 trial.

The safety run-in of the LEAP-014 trial showed acceptable toxicity and antitumor responses in patients with metastatic esophageal cancer receiving pembrolizumab, lenvatinib, and chemotherapy consisting of cisplatin plus either paclitaxel or 5-fluororacil.

An exploratory analysis of Study 309/KEYNOTE-775 showed further benefit for patients and consistent safety in patients who received pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib for advanced endometrial cancer who continued lenvatinib treatment.

A novel CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody showed promising safety and preliminary antitumor activity in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

In the VISION trial, tepotinib led to clinically meaningful results in treatment-naïve and pretreated patients with METex14-skipping non–small cell lung cancer, supporting the use of MET inhibitors for this patient population.

Treatment with datopotamab deruxtecan led to a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival in patients with metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

Jorge E. Cortes, MD, discusses the safety profile of olutasidenib for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia that harbor an IDH1 mutation.

In the phase 3 CLEAR study, lenvatinib combined with pembrolizumab continued to elicit deep and durable tumor response among patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

The FDA has expanded the indication of entrectinib for the treatment of pediatric patients 1 month and older with solid tumors harboring an NTRK gene fusion.

In an interview, John Diaz, MD, discusses updates to the cervical cancer treatment landscape and where the field is moving to potentially eradicate this disease in the United States.

Findings from the ENGOT-EN6-NSGO/GOG-3031/RUBY trial showed that patients with dMMR/MSI-H had a progression-free survival rate of 57.0% in the dostarlimab arm vs 10.2% in the placebo arm.

Enfortumab vedotin-ejfv plus pembrolizumab improves survival in patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

At a median follow-up of 13.9 months, patients with extra-pancreatic NETs treated with cabozantinib experienced a median progression-free survival of 8.3 months vs 3.2 months with placebo.

The multicenter, open-label, CodeBreaK 300 trial of sotorasib plus panitumumab showed consistent efficacy across key subgroups of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer harboring KRAS G12C mutations.

Data presented at the 2023 ESMO Congress and showed that induction chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation reduced the risk of progression or death by 35% vs chemoradiation alone in patients with cervical cancer.

Tisotumab vedotin-tftv improved survival in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer with disease progression on doublet chemotherapy.

In the phase 2 DESTINY-PanTumor01 trial, trastuzumab deruxtecan showed clinically meaningful pan-tumor activity in patients with a range of solid tumors harboring HER2 mutations.

Thomas Powles, MD, MBBS, MRCP, discusses findings from the phase 3 EV-302 clinical trial of enfortumab vedotin-ejfv with pembrolizumab vs chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

The safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, immunogenicity, and tumor response of KVA12123 alone and with pembrolizumab are being evaluated in a phase 1/2 study for patients with advanced solid tumors.

A trial comparing selpercatinib with cabozantinib or vandetanib led to greater benefit and favorable safety in the selpercatinib arm, supporting use of the selective RET inhibitor as first-line treatment for patients with advanced RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer, according to interim data presented at the 2023 ESMO Congress.

Combining amivantamab, carboplatin, and pemetrexed in patients with non–small cell lung cancer and an EGFR exon 20 insertion led to improved progression-free survival, overall response rate, duration of response, and a trend toward overall survival benefit vs chemotherapy alone in the randomized phase 3 PAPILLON study.

Results phase 3 LIBRETTO-431 trial presented at the 2023 ESMO Congress showed selpercatinib monotherapy demonstrated better survival results than chemotherapy with or without pembrolizumab for patients with RET fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Results from the phase 3 ALINA trial showed the benefit of ALK inhibition for patients with ALK-positive, early-stage, non–small-cell lung cancer with use of adjuvant alectinib significantly improving disease-free survival.

The emergence of preliminary efficacy evidence, and potential biomarker targets, with the combination of the novel anti-TGIT agent etigilimab and nivolumab was presented at the 2023 ESMO Congress.

In the first phase 3 perioperative study of patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer given adjuvant nivolumab after surgery and a prior regimen of nivolumab and chemotherapy showed improved event-free survival results.