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Combined adjuvant treatment with mRNA-4157 in combination with pembrolizumab improved recurrence rates in patients with resected high-risk melanoma.

For patients with CLDN18.2-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, treatment with zolbetuximab/mFOLFOX6 yielded a progression-free survival (PFS) of 10.61 months whereas placebo/mFOLFOX6 resulted in a PFS of 8.67 months.

Blinatumomab plus consolidation chemotherapy demonstrated a survival advantage for patients with newly diagnosed minimal residual disease–negative B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Sotigalimab, a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody against human CD40, may hold value in the frontline treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma.

A post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 ARCHES found enzalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy to be an effective treatment for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, no matter their history of prior local therapy.

Niraparib improved or maintained health-related quality of life, pain intensity, and pain interference in patients with advanced or metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping could be used to predict radiation dermatitis in patients with breast cancer.

The addition of apalutamide to androgen deprivation therapy does not lead to a significant patient-reported side effect burden nor a reduction in health-related quality of life in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

The addition of ublituximab and umbralisib (Ukoniq; U2) to ibrutinib (Imbruvica) demonstrated a 77% undetectable minimal residual disease (uMRD) rate in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Very low dose radiation therapy was found to be an effective treatment approach in the palliative setting for patients with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Longer follow-up data from the phase 1/2 CodeBreaK 100 trial show that patients with KRAS G12C–mutant non–small cell lung cancer experienced improved prolonged overall survival and encouraging response rates with sotorasib.

Olaparib is now FDA approved for patients with germline BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative, high-risk early breast cancer and who have already undergone chemotherapy before or after surgery.

First-line treatment with olaparib plus abiraterone resulted in a 34% risk reduction of radiographic disease progression or death in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

An expert with Oregon Health & Science University discusses whether Orca-T graft can fulfill an unmet need in the field of allogeneic stem cell transplantation for myelofibrosis.

Patients with HER2-positive gastric cancer or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma experienced a 40% reduced risk of mortality with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki, compared with patients who received standard therapy.

Patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia experienced positive gene set enrichment after receiving ibrutinib in addition to lisocabtagene maraleucel.

Pooled findings indicate that the quality of life in patients receiving surufantinib for advanced neuroendocrine tumors was comparable to that of placebo.

An expert from NYU Langone outlines how checkpoint blockade approvals have helped advance endometrial cancer management.

Newer modalities seek to use MRD to provide more definitive prognoses.

A 4-year follow-up of patients with treatment-naïve triple-negative breast cancer who received carboplatin plus neoadjuvant paclitaxel, followed by doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide, suggests that the regime induces superior pathological complete response and event-free survival.

Adavosertib decreased the risk of disease progression or death by 65% in patients with TP53-/RAS-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Adherence to current clinical guidelines may contribute to systematic underdiagnosis in Black women, says Kemi M. Doll, MD, MS.

Bispecific antibodies like amivantamab-vmjw, zenocutuzumab, and tarlatamab, are novel in the landscape of lung cancer treatment due to their ability to bridge cells and inhibit tumor growth.

Recently approved combination therapies have contributed to significantly improved survival rates in renal cell carcinoma.

Preliminary study results recently presented at the 2021 European Association of Urology Congress demonstrate that the safety profile of the combination of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and mitomycin is comparable to BCG alone.

The FDA has approved asparaginase erwinia chrysanthemi (recombinant)-rywn (Rylaze) as a complement of treatment for the most common childhood cancer.

The efficacy of CYNK-001 will now be studied with patients with relapsed/refractory AML.

Sotorasib produced continued durable clinical benefit in patients with pretreated KRAS p.G12C+ NSCLC.

Nivolumab with or without ipilimumab improved survival over ipilimumab alone in patients with previously untreated advanced melanoma.

The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to loncastuximab tesirine for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma following 2 or more lines of systemic therapy.