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The use of zanubrutinib was found to be noninferior to treatment with ibrutinib for adult patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 ALPINE trial.

Thomas Marron, PhD, MD, discusses the need for effective neoadjuvant therapies in hepatocellular carcinoma.

The FDA’s Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee voted 10 to 1 to continue the accelerated approval of atezolizumab for the frontline treatment of patients with urothelial cancer who are ineligible for cisplatin.

The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 5 to 3 in favor of continued approval of pembrolizumab for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who are ineligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy.

The FDA has granted a priority review to mobocertinib as a treatment for adult patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion–mutant metastatic non–small cell lung cancer, as detected by an FDA-approved test, and who have received prior platinum-based chemotherapy.

The FDA's Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 7 to 2 in favor of the continued approval of atezolizumab in combination with nab-paclitaxel for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer whose tumors are positive for PD-L1 expression.

The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to ITIL-168 for the treatment of stage IIB to IV melanoma, an investigational, autologous cell therapy derived from tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes.

Results from the phase 2 study of farnesyltransferase inhibitor tipifarnib showed significant responses in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and demonstrated that variant alle frequency could be a potential biomarker in this patient population.

Continued data for the first-generation BTK inhibitor have demonstrated its expanding utility amid a growing treatment arsenal.

Both KRAS and EGFR mutations have become increasingly important targets in non–small cell lung cancer. This is especially remarkable as KRAS was once considered an “untargetable mutation.”

Treatment with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor entrectinib may lead to continued clinical benefit as treatment of patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer, including those with central nervous system metastases, according to an updated from an integrated analysis of 3 clinical trials.

The FDA has removed the clinical hold on the investigational new drug application of NL-201, a treatment for relapsed or refractory tumors, allowing a phase 1 clinical trial to begin.

In patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma, a phase 1b/2 umbrella platform study is evaluating the safety and efficacy of experimental combinations of investigational agents.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Scott R. Solomon, MD, a medical oncologist with the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Leukemia and Cellular Immunotherapy Program at the Northside Hospital Cancer Institute, discussed the efficacy of liso-cel in large B-cell lymphoma patients with prior anti-CD19 exposure and future research.

The FDA has been leading an industry-wide evaluation of accelerated approvals of oncology drugs for which the clinical benefit was not verified in confirmatory trials.

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.