Chris Ryan

The FDA granted an orphan drug designation to avutometinib either alone or in combination with defactinib for recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer.

Patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma treated with the universal cancer vaccine UV1 plus nivolumab and ipilimumab did not experience an improvement in progression-free survival vs nivolumab plus ipilimumab alone.

Patients with FIGO stage IV ovarian cancer did not experience additional complications or worse survival with HIPEC compared with those with stage III disease.

The PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx diagnostic tool will help identify patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma whose disease expresses PD-L1 and who are thereby eligible for pembrolizumab.

Adjuvant pembrolizumab improved overall survival vs placebo in patients with renal cell carcinoma at intermediate-high or high risk of recurrence.

Patients who received induction chemotherapy prior to chemoradiation had a 35% reduced risk of progression or death.

The FDA has approved tests to identify patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who are eligible for treatment with encorafenib plus binimetinib.

The approval of FoundationOne CDx as a companion diagnostic for selpercatinib seeks to broaden access to therapies for patients with RET fusion–positive solid tumors.

The FDA has granted belzutifan priority review designation based on data from the phase 3 LITESPARK-005 trial.

Patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, including those with lenalidomide and pomalidomide-refractory disease, showed encouraging responses with mezigdomide plus dexamethasone.

The FDA has granted ivosidenib priority review designation based on data from a phase 1 trial.

Two patients experienced 18% and 20% reductions in tumor size following treatment with camsirubicin.

The first-line combination of magrolimab and azacitidine will no longer be investigated in patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma who received rivoceranib/camrelizumab achieved a median progression-free survival of 5.6 months vs 3.7 months with sorafenib.

Patients with TP53 wild-type endometrial cancer experienced a median progression-free survival of 27.4 months vs 5.2 months with placebo.

ASP-1929, an antibody-dye conjugate, plus pembrolizumab, induced a 29.4% overall response rate in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The phase 3 CheckMate-901 trial met its dual primary end points for progression-free survival and overall survival.

Quizartinib has been approved by the FDA for use with standard cytarabine and anthracycline induction and cytarabine consolidation, and as maintenance monotherapy after consolidation chemotherapy, to treat adults with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia that is FLT3-ITD positive, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

Intensified doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine, and granulocyte colony–stimulating factor (ABVD) was associated with a 56% reduction in the relative risk of 3-year progression, relapse, or death.

The median overall survival with intra-arterial gemcitabine was 15.7 months vs 10.1 months with intravenous gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel.

Patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia who were refractory to a BTK inhibitor achieved preliminary responses with the CD20-targeted CAR T-cell therapy MB-106.

The FDA has launched a priority review of lifileucel based on data from the phase 2 C-144-01 trial.

Mitazalimab and modified FOLFIRINOX produced a 57% objective response rate among patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in the frontline setting.

Patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma treated with elranatamab following any prior BCMA-directed therapy achieved an overall response rate of 46%.

Ciltacabtagene autoleucel improved progression-free survival vs pomalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone or daratumumab, pomalidomide, and dexamethasone in patients with lenalidomide-refractory multiple myeloma.

Numerical, but not statistically significant, improvements in survival were observed in patients with TKI-resistant, EGFR-mutated, metastatic nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer who received pembrolizumab to pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy.

Adjuvant osimertinib reduced the risk of death by 51% compared with placebo for patients with EGFR-mutated, stage IB, II, or IIIA non–small cell lung cancer.

Updated findings from KEYNOTE-826 support the use of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab for select patients with cervical cancer.

The United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has updated their guidelines to recommend pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib for patients with previously treated endometrial cancer.

The FDA has issued a complete response letter for vic-trastuzumab duocarmazine.