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In this installement of Clinical Quandaries, Abigail Mateos-Soria, MD, and colleagues present a case of an 38-year-old woman who has a 3-month history of fatigue, dyspnea, significant weight loss, and severe left flank pain.

Ira Winer, MD, PhD, FACOG, spoke about high response rates observed in patients with pretreated platinum-resistant ovarian cancer from the phase 1/2 ARTISTRY-1 trial.

Phillip S. Low, PhD, spoke about what the future holds for treatments like 177Lu-PSMA-617 being developed for patients with prostate cancer.

J. David Prologo, MD, FSIR, ABOM-D, an interventional radiologist at Emory Healthcare, details how cryoablation can be used by radiologists to manage pain in patients with cancer.

Although canakinumab, pembrolizumab, and chemotherapy did not lead to an improvement in survival vs the placebo cohort, it may still have benefit in certain subgroups of patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Bria-IMT has been granted fast track designation by the FDA for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

“You have to look at the cell-free DNA results with a grain of salt and with some degree of sophistication in terms of what you can act on as a predictive biomarker in the blood.”

Data from the phase 2 KGOG 3046 trial revealed evidence of antitumor activity with the neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy regimen containing durvalumab and tremelimumab for patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer.

Ursula A. Matulonis, MD, discusses key data with mirvetuximab soravtansine for patients with folate receptor α–high platinum-resistant ovarian cancer that read out of the phase 3 SORAYA trial.

Matthew Krebs, MB, PhD spoke about the reasoning for the phase 1 PALOMA trial in patients with solid tumors who received a subcutaneous formulation of amivantamab.

Liliana Bustamante, MD, and Richard Kim, MD, discuss circulating tumor DNA as a potential prognostic biomarker for patients with colorectal cancer.

Results of the phase 2 AURELIO-03 trial show SOT101 plus PD-1 inhibition induced responses in patients with advanced solid tumors.

A phase 3 trial of patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer who were treated with adebrelimab plus chemotherapy compared with matched placebo met the primary end point of overall survival.

The addition of an immune checkpoint inhibitor to CG0070 induced a complete response rate of 88.9% among 18 patients in the phase 2 CORE1 trial.

The combination of sotigalimab plus pembrolizumab was associated with a tolerable safety profile in patients with unresectable stage III or IV metastatic melanoma.

Patients with advanced melanoma receiving nivolumab plus ipilimumab in the second-line setting had significant improvement in progression-free survival.

Novel BO-112 when combined with pembrolizumab may offer a new treatment option for patients with advanced melanoma and PD-1 inhibitor therapy resistance.

Stéphane Champiat, MD, PhD, spoke about the results of the AURELIO-03 trial with SOT101 and pembrolizumab for patients with advanced solid tumors.

The safety and efficacy of NG-641 plus nivolumab will be assessed as part of the phase 1a/b NEBULA trial in patients with previously treated metastatic or advanced epithelial tumor.

Investigators uncovered potential mechanisms of resistance to CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy in patients with pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

The CoVac-1 vaccine appears to reduce COVID-19 symptoms for patients with cancer who have disease- or treatment-related immunoglobulin deficiency.

Patients with advanced solid tumors experienced an increase in dose-dependent T-cell proliferation following treatment with MEDI5752.

Bone marrow fibrosis improvement and variant allele frequency reduction observed with navitoclax plus ruxolitinib for patients with previously treated myelofibrosis may suggest disease modification.

Ibrutinib plus venetoclax given at a fixed duration yielded favorable progression-free survival in patients with previously untreated, high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma.

Patients with advanced or recurrent uterine serous carcinoma derived promising benefit from treatment with ZN-c3.

Patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had a high genomic loss of heterozygosity may respond better to treatment with talazoparib.

The phase 1b/2 KontRASt-01 trial demonstrated a positive safety profile of JDQ443 for patients with KRAS G12C-mutant solid tumors.

Patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring a MET exon 14 skipping mutation appeared to derive durable efficacy following treatment with SCC244.

Adjuvant durvalumab combined with different monoclonal antibodies led to enriched major pathologic responses in early-stage non–small cell lung cancer.

Patients with solid malignancies may benefit from treatment with next-generation PARP inhibitor AZD5305, according to findings from the phase 1/2a PETRA study.