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The objective response rate with sacituzumab govitecan plus pembrolizumab was 56%.

Patrimumab deruxtecan garnered a 29.8% overall response rate in pretreated patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

Adagrasib elicited a 1-year overall survival rate of 52.8% and 2-year rate of 31.3%.

The median progression-free survival with iruplinalkib was 27.70 months vs 14.62 months with crizotinib.

Although survival is improving overall, disparities continue to grow.

A total of 58.5% of patients who received luspatercept remained red blood cell (RBC) transfusion independent for 12 weeks or more.

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

Patients with breast and gastrointestinal cancers reported fewer hand-foot syndrome events following treatment with topical diclofenac gel.

Phase 3 findings from the CLL12 trial support a watch-and-wait approach over systemic treatment with ibrutinib for patients with asymptomatic early-stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The phase 1/2 TRANSCEND CLL 004 trial met its primary end point by demonstrating that lisocabtagene maraleucel elicited responses in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma.

Talazoparib reduced the risk of progression or death by 55% in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and homologous recombination repair gene alterations.

Second-line treatment with CDK4/6 inhibition was associated with fewer toxicities and drug costs than frontline CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment—although progression-free survival and overall survival outcomes were similar.

The rates of treatment discontinuation were higher with enzalutamide and apalutamide than with darolutamide for patients with non-metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.

Maintenance bevacizumab plus durvalumab and olaparib improved progression-free survival in patients with HRD-negative advanced ovarian cancer.

The median progression-free survival with atezolizumab to cabozantinib was 10.6 vs 10.8 months with cabozantinib alone.

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

Omitting radiotherapy did not compromise overall survival rates for patients with primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma.

Patients with ESR1 mutations who received 12 months or more of prior treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor achieved a median progression free survival of 8.61 months with elacestrant compared with 1.91 months for those given standard therapy.

Patients with HER2-positive, metastatic colorectal cancer derived clinical benefit from a 5.4 mg/kg dose of trastuzumab deruxtecan.

Sabrina Banegas, RN, BMT-CN, highlights the value of improving antibiotic administration times for patients undergoing bone marrow transplant.

Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab elicited durable responses in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who were ineligible for cisplatin.

Meredith Cummings, BSN, RN, OCN, discusses the potential benefit of machine learning in predicting symptoms for patients with head and neck cancer.

According to investigators, digitized cognitive behavioral stress management may help clinicians offer more comprehensive cancer care.

Sacituzumab govitecan improved overall survival vs treatment of physician’s choice in pretreated, endocrine-resistant, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

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

Meredith Cummings BSN, RN, OCN, highlights her research on machine learning and its potential application in optimizing symptom management.

Adjuvant mRNA-4157, in combination with pembrolizumab, improved recurrence-free survival, and distant metastasis-free survival, for patients with high-risk melanoma.

Shivani Gopalsami, RN, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP; and Tia Wheatley, DNP, RN, AOCNS, BMTCN, highlight the value of multidisciplinary approaches in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation care.

Phase 2 findings show that adding a tyrosine kinase inhibitor to dual immunotherapy curbed disease progression in patients with metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.

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.