Caroline Seymour

Patients with multiple myeloma who received initial combination therapy with lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone, plus autologous stem cell transplant, followed by lenalidomide maintenance, experienced improved progression-free survival.

Standard chemotherapy plus sorafenib achieved clinical benefit in pediatric patients with FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.

An improved progression-free survival benefit was observed in patients with stage III unresectable or stage IV melanoma who received nivolumab plus ipilimumab.

Whether administered as an immune primer or concurrently with extended field chemoradiation, atezolizumab demonstrated efficacy in triggering T-cell clonal expansions and prolonging progression-free survival in patients with cervical cancer.

Duvelisib, a dual PI3K-δ,γ inhibitor, is now listed as a category 2A designated option for second-line and subsequent treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Frontline niraparib, abiraterone acetate, and prednisone yielded improved radiographic progression-free survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

A City of Hope expert underscores the benefit of using antibody-drug conjugates, CDK4/6 inhibitors, PARP inhibitors, and checkpoint blockade in early-stage and metastatic breast cancer.

Pending FDA approval, the dual immunotherapy combination could provide patients with a new treatment option which would not require any further safety requirements prior to initiation.

Patients who received matched targeted therapy specific to their genomic alteration, as identified through multigene sequencing, experienced significantly improved progression-free survival.

A study in France showed that patients with lung cancer, a population initially excluded from COVID-19 vaccination registration trials, were able to safely receive 3 doses.

Findings from biomarker tests for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia can help appropriately tailor therapy plans as well as identify patients eligible for clinical trials.

Between 2000 and 2018, the number of pancreatic cancer cases rose, particularly among women between the ages of 15 to 35 years.

Ruxolitinib was not associated with an increased risk of secondary malignancies in patients with polycythemia vera.

Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System scoring suggested that wound complication was associated with more severe anxiety and decreased physical function in patients receiving radiation therapy for soft tissue sarcoma.

Although cancer clinical trial enrollment plummeted during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, study results show that enrollment has rebounded over the past year.

Patients with HER2-positive, metastatic colorectal cancer and higher HER2 expression at baseline experienced improved responses following treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan.

Interim findings presented at the 2021 ESMO congress suggest that tisotumab vedotin plus frontline carboplatin and second-/third-Line pembrolizumab may be a suitable treatment option for recurrent/metastatic cervical cancer.

Patients with both COVID-19 and malignant pleural mesothelioma showed high rates of hospitalization and mortality.

Zanubrutinib (Brukinsa) is now FDA approved for the treatment of adults with Waldenström Macroglobulinemia.

The continued development of KRAS G12C inhibitors for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer shows that researchers are making breakthroughs in the treatment landscape.

CDK4/6 inhibitors have demonstrated promise in treating patients with estrogen receptor (ER)–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer in both a neoadjuvant and adjuvant setting.

Patients with multiple myeloma are potentially at greater risk of developing severe COVID-19 after the SARS-COv-2 vaccination induced suboptimal antibody response.

Data from a 5-year follow-up study confirmed that CPX-351 continues to be associated with long-term remission and improved overall survival compared to 7+3 chemotherapy in certain older patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

The combination of drugs resulted in a response from more than half of patients.

The phase 3 SIMPLIFY 1 and SIMPLIFY 2 trials reported that Week 24 transfusion independence resulted in an improved overall survival for patients with myelofibrosis.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to teclistamab for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Age was associated with overall survival and the time to Richter transformation in adolescent and young adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, according to findings from a single-institutional, retrospective study.

Molecular testing is more essential than ever, thanks to the targeted therapy options for non-small cell lung cancer.

An expert gives an overview of recent advancements in the lung cancer space.

Robert Wenham, MD, MS, FACOG, FACS, discusses the basis for combining chemotherapy, PARP inhibitors, and VEGF inhibitors with immunotherapy in ovarian cancer and ongoing research with ADCs in the field.