Jessica Hergert

When compared with placebo and chemotherapy, durvalumab plus gemcitabine and cisplatin was superior in terms of overall survival in the treatment of advanced biliary tract cancer.

Patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma achieved promising benefit in terms of cytokine release syndrome mitigation via double cycle 1 step-up dosing for cevostamab.

Patients with relapsed or refractory aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma did not benefit in terms of event-free survival when treated with the CAR T-cell therapy tisagenlecleucel vs standard-of-care chemotherapy and transplant.

Treatment with the CAR T-cell therapy tisagenlecleucel for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma or high-grade B-cell lymphoma was favorable in both the pivotal clinical trial and the real-world setting, according to new data made available during 2021 ASH.

High rates of undetectable minimal residual disease were found in fit patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who were treated with venetoclax plus either obinutuzumab or ibrutinib vs chemoimmunotherapy.

Fulvestrant plus palbociclib after aromatase inhibitor plus palbociclib led to improvements in progression-free survival for patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

In a debate, experts discuss the importance of IGHV and TP53 mutational status in predicting response to novel therapies in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Findings from the PACIFIC-R trial indicated that the real-world progression-free survival benefit of durvalumab was higher vs the median progression-free survival reported in the durvalumab arm of the phase 3 PACIFIC trial in unresectable stage III non–small cell lung cancer.

The use of adjuvant pembrolizumab resulted in a recurrence-free survival benefit for patients with resected high-risk stage II melanoma.

Findings from the phase 3 CheckMate 743 trial indicated that patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma derived a continued overall survival benefit after being treated with nivolumab and ipilimumab.

Patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring ALK mutations who were not suitable for crizotinib therapy, either due to resistance or intolerance, showed benefit with sequential crizotinib and alectinib.

Continued efficacy of CAR T-cell therapy with idecabtagene vicleucel in patients with pretreated myeloma is evidenced by updated KarMMa trial findings presented at the 18th International Myeloma Workshop.

For patients with KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer and stable brain metastases who were previously treated with either radiation or surgery, robust anticancer activity was observed with intracranial complete responses and continued intracranial stabilization with sotorasib.

CAR T-cell therapy with axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel; Yescarta) showed promise in patients with high-risk relapsed/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Responses to selpercatinib in patients with pretreated medullary thyroid cancer were noted irrespective of therapy regimens received in prior lines, according to data from the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Patients with platinum-pretreated EGFR exon 20 insertion mutation–positive metastatic non–small cell lung cancer experienced antitumor activity with oral TKI mobocertinib, according to results presented at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Overall survival and progression-free survival was improved with frontline camrelizumab plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Antitumor activity and a tolerable safety profile were observed for VERU-111, a novel tubulin inhibitor, to treat patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who previously failed an androgen receptor–targeting agent.

Multiple key efficacy end points continue to favor atezolizumab versus chemotherapy for patients with PD-L1–high, wild-type nonsquamous or squamous non–small cell lung cancer in the first line, according to a phase 3 trial follow-up.

The investigational TROP-2–directed antibody-drug conjugate datopotamab deruxtecan will move forward in the treatment of relapsed/refractory non–small cell lung cancer, according to results from the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer Singapore.

Overall and progression-free survival with second-line pembrolizumab for hepatocellular carcinoma maintained numerical superiority, according to a phase 3 trial.

Fewer deaths and improved cumulative incidence of central nervous system recurrences were shown at 8 years of follow-up with adjuvant neratinib (Nerlynx) compared with placebo in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer following trastuzumab (Herceptin)-based therapy.

A novel ROR1-targeted antibody-drug conjugate, VLS-101, demonstrated encouraging clinical efficacy, consistent pharmacokinetics, and a favorable safety profile in patients with heavily pretreated mantle cell lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The CAR T-cell therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel demonstrated long-term disease control with rapid responses and robust CAR T-cell expansion among patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Census tract socioeconomic status information demonstrated significant disparities between survival outcomes of non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic patients with acute myeloid leukemia AML in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Findings from the noncomparative, phase 2, biomarker-driven BIONIKK trial support the use of molecularly-directed frontline therapy as means to enrich responses in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

The combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) and chemotherapy led to a statistically significant survival benefit among previously untreated patients with PD-L1–positive advanced gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, and esophageal adenocarcinoma.