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Showing 101 - 150Expert Point of View: Jarushka Naidoo, MBBCh, MHS
Invited discussant Jarushka Naidoo, MBBCh, MHS, Professor of Medical Oncology and Consultant Medical Oncologist, Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre, in Dublin, called the results of amivantamab-vmjw therapy in patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion–positive advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)...
Amivantamab Shows Efficacy in Advanced NSCLC With EGFR Exon 20 Insertions
Amivantamab-vmjw, an EGFR and MET bispecific monoclonal antibody, has demonstrated encouraging long-term benefits and consistent efficacy in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR exon 20 insertions, according to data presented by Pilar Garrido, MD, PhD, Associate...
Expert Point of View: Daniel SW Tan, BSc, MBBS, PhD
Invited discussant of the phase II APPLE trial, Daniel SW Tan, BSc, MBBS, PhD, of the National Cancer Centre Singapore, noted that 17% of patients have had only molecular disease progression and were switched over to the sequential strategy. “This may be in some parts related to the sensitivity of...
Front-Line vs Sequential Use of Osimertinib in EGFR-Mutant NSCLC: Potential Impact of Liquid Biopsies
Using liquid biopsies to detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) may soon transform treatment strategies for patients with advanced EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to data presented during the European Lung Cancer Congress 2023 by lead study author Jordi Remon, MD, PhD, of...
Expert Point of View: Antonio Passaro, MD, PhD
Invited discussant Antonio Passaro, MD, PhD, of the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy, underscored the significant results of the landmark CheckMate 816 trial, which he said, “established a new treatment paradigm for resectable NSCLC [non–small cell lung cancer].” In addition to the 14% ...
CheckMate 816: 3-Year Update Shows Improved Event-Free Survival With Neoadjuvant Nivolumab and Chemotherapy for Resectable NSCLC
The combination of neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy continues to demonstrate potential as a standard treatment for patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to data presented during the European Lung Cancer Congress 2023.1 The 3-year update from the phase III...
Expert Point of View: Jarushka Naidoo, MBBCh, MHS
The invited discussant for the CodeBreaK 200 trial, Jarushka Naidoo, MBBCh, MHS, Professor of Medical Oncology and Consultant Medical Oncologist at Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre in Dublin, underscored the importance of patient-reported outcomes in evaluating the effectiveness of oncology treatments,...
CodeBreaK 200: Sotorasib Offers Improved Quality of Life for Patients With Previously Treated NSCLC
The latest research on sotorasib, a targeted therapy for KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), reveals that patients may experience better quality of life while benefiting from improved clinical outcomes. Analysis of patient-reported outcomes presented during the European Lung...
Expert Point of View: Jaffer A. Ajani, MD
Jaffer A. Ajani, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, told The ASCO Post that obesity (defined as high body mass index of 30–39.9 kg/m2) is increasing around the globe; by 2035, more than 50% of adults will...
Study Reveals Link Between Obesity and Gastric Cancer Aggressiveness
A pioneering study from Israel has shed new light on the link between obesity and the aggressiveness of gastric cancer while demonstrating potential therapeutic targets for the disease. Results of the translational research, presented during the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) 2023 International ...
Expert Point of View: Callisia N. Clarke, MD, MS, FACS, FSSO
Moderator of the press conference at the 2023 Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) International Conference on Surgical Cancer Care, Callisia N. Clarke, MD, MS, FACS, FSSO, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, shared insights on the transition of circulating tumor DNA...
Using Circulating Tumor DNA to Predict Early Recurrence of Soft-Tissue Sarcomas
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) may transform disease monitoring and guide treatment for soft-tissue sarcomas, according to data presented at the 2023 Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) International Conference on Surgical Cancer Care.1 Findings of a retrospective review showed that 85% of patients...
Toripalimab Plus Chemotherapy May Improve Event-Free Survival in Resectable Stage III NSCLC
An interim analysis of the Neotorch study highlighted the potential of immunotherapy for the treatment of early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to data presented by Lu et al during the ASCO Plenary Series: April 2023 Session (Abstract 425126). The findings showed a significant...
Expert Point of View: Callisia N. Clarke, MD, MS, FACS, FSSO
Moderator of the press conference at the 2023 International Conference on Surgical Cancer Care, Callisia N. Clarke, MD, MS, FACS, FSSO, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin, highlighted the significance of the 80% response rates to neoadjuvant immunotherapy in primary...
Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab in Desmoplastic Melanoma
Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab may significantly improve the management of desmoplastic melanoma, increasing the likelihood of successful resection and reducing the need for further surgery or radiation therapy, according to the response data presented at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting, with the surgical...
RUBY Trial: Dostarlimab Plus Carboplatin and Paclitaxel in Advanced Endometrial Cancer
Adding immunotherapy to standard chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of advanced or the first recurrence of endometrial cancer significantly improved progression-free survival compared to chemotherapy alone, according to data presented by Mansoor Raza Mirza, MD, and colleagues at the March...
Expert Point of View: Anjali S. Advani, MD
Discussant of the February ASCO Plenary session, Anjali S. Advani, MD, Staff Physician in the Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders and Director of the Inpatient Leukemia Program, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, noted that the PhALLCON study is the only prospective...
PhALLCON Study: Ponatinib Superior to Imatinib in Combination With Chemotherapy in Newly Diagnosed, Ph-Positive ALL
Ponatinib appears to be a more effective tyrosine kinase inhibitor than imatinib in newly diagnosed, Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) when combined with reduced-intensity chemotherapy, according to data presented during the ASCO Plenary Series: February 2023...
Expert Point of View: Breelyn A. Wilky, MD
Discussant of the INTRIGUE abstract, Breelyn A. Wilky, MD, Director of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, Deputy Associate Director for Clinical Research, University of Colorado, Aurora, called the data presented “compelling evidence of the power of ctDNA [circulating tumor DNA] to identify predictive...
INTRIGUE Study: Circulating Tumor DNA Analysis May Predict Optimal Treatment of Patients With GIST
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis of KIT exon mutations may help to predict which second-line therapy is best for patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), according to data presented during the ASCO Plenary Series: January 2023 Session.1 Exploratory analysis of the phase...
Expert Point of View: Bita Fakhri, MD, MPH
Moderator of the session on the CLL2-GIVe regimen, Bita Fakhri, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medicine, California, said that findings from the ongoing, phase III CLL13 trial will ultimately determine which regimen is appropriate for patients with high-risk chronic...
CLL2-GIVe Trial: Regimen of Obinutuzumab, Ibrutinib, and Venetoclax Effective in High-Risk CLL
The first-line combination of obinutuzumab, ibrutinib, and venetoclax appears to be effective in treating high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to data presented at the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.1 Results of the CLL2-GIVe trial, which...
Expert Point of View: Catherine S. Diefenbach, MD
Catherine S. Diefenbach, MD, Associate Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Director of the Clinical Lymphoma Program, and Director of Hematology Translational Research at Perlmutter Cancer Center, in New York, called the findings from the TRANSFORM trial “very striking.” “This study...
CAR T-Cell Therapy vs Chemoimmunotherapy in Second-Line Treatment of Resistant Large B-Cell Lymphoma
New research has confirmed the superiority of lisocabtagene maraleucel over the standard of care for the second-line treatment of primary refractory or early relapsed large B-cell lymphoma, according to data presented by lead study author Jeremy S. Abramson, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at...
Quick Takes on Important Cancer Research From ASH 2022
The high-energy vibe at the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition reflected the welcomed presence of enthusiastic on-site attendees and the high quality of the research presented. The ASCO Post has already reported in detail on many of these presentations, and now...
Expert Point of View: Catherine S. Diefenbach, MD
Catherine S. Diefenbach, MD, Associate Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Director of the Clinical Lymphoma Program, and Director of Hematology Translational Research at Perlmutter Cancer Center, in New York, called the findings from the TRANSFORM trial “very striking.” “This study...
CAR T-Cell Therapy vs Chemoimmunotherapy in Second-Line Treatment of Resistant Large B-Cell Lymphoma
New research has confirmed the superiority of lisocabtagene maraleucel over the standard of care for the second-line treatment of primary refractory or early relapsed large B-cell lymphoma, according to data presented by lead study author Jeremy S. Abramson, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at...
Expert Point of View: Emily K. Curran, MD
Moderator of the session, Emily K. Curran, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, in Ohio, said that the data presented by Dr. Short and colleagues demonstrated very impressive event-free and overall survival rates, especially for a disease that...
Ponatinib and Blinatumomab Combination Safe and Effective in Patients With Newly Diagnosed, Ph-Positive ALL
The combination of ponatinib and blinatumomab has led to rapid and durable remissions in patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according to data presented at the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and...
ctDNA Analysis May Predict Optimal Treatment for Patients With GIST
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis of KIT exon mutations may help predict which second-line therapy is best for patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), according to data presented by Bauer et al during the January ASCO Plenary Series session (Abstract 397784). An...
Expert Point of View: Antonio González-Martín, MD, PhD
Abstract discussant of the NORA trial, Antonio González-Martín, MD, PhD, Director of the Department of Medical Oncology at Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid, said that despite the results of this ad hoc interim analysis, “the jury is still out” regarding the overall survival benefit of PARP...
Phase III NORA Trial: Niraparib Maintenance Shows Overall Survival Trend in Platinum-Sensitive Recurrent Ovarian Cancer
Maintenance therapy with a poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor may do more than just delay disease progression for patients with platinum-sensitive, relapsed ovarian cancer; it might also improve overall survival, according to data presented during the December 2022 European Society for...
Expert Point of View: Bita Fakhri, MD, MPH
Moderator of the session on the CLL2-GIVe regimen, Bita Fakhri, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medicine, California, said that findings from the ongoing, phase III CLL13 trial will ultimately determine which regimen is appropriate for patients with high-risk chronic...
CLL2-GIVe Trial: Regimen of Obinutuzumab, Ibrutinib, and Venetoclax Effective in High-Risk CLL
The first-line combination of obinutuzumab, ibrutinib, and venetoclax appears to be effective in treating high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to data presented at the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.1 Results of the CLL2-GIVe trial, which...
Expert Point of View: Neil J. Shah, MBBS
Neil J. Shah, MBBS, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, called the cohort study “one of a kind” because of the ability to match baseline cohorts of people living with and without HIV and metastatic non–small cell lung cancer. “These findings should be very...
Study Finds Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Safe and Effective for Patients Living With HIV Who Have NSCLC
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are safe and effective for people living with HIV who have metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to data presented at the 2022 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting.1 Findings from the first matched cohort to compare clinical...
Expert Point of View: Renata Ferrarotto, MD
Renata Ferrarotto, MD, Associate Professor, and Director of Head and Neck Clinical Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, called the efficacy results with cabozantinib plus atezolizumab in recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma “encouraging”...
Cabozantinib Plus Atezolizumab Warrants Further Study in Treatment of Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
A challenging patient population with advanced head and neck cancer may have a new treatment option, according to data presented during the 2022 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting.1 Results from Cohort 17 of the COSMIC-021 study showed that the combination of the kinase...
Study Reports Activity With Oncolytic Vaccine Plus Pembrolizumab in BCG-Unresponsive Bladder Cancer
An oncolytic therapy delivered within the urinary bladder in combination with pembrolizumab has yielded high complete response rates in patients with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive bladder cancer, according to data presented by Roger Li, MD, lead study investigator and urologic...
Expert Point of View: Joelle Fathi, DNP, RN, ARNP, CTTS, FAAN
An expert on the panel discussion of lung cancer screening from the Quantitative Imaging Workshop XIX, Joelle Fathi, DNP, RN, ARNP, CTTS, FAAN, Chief Healthcare Delivery Officer for the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer, called the lung cancer screening study a powerful reminder of the reality on the...
Lung Cancer Screening Perceptions of Patients and Clinicians: The Power of Shared Decision-Making
Despite the benefits of lung cancer screening, including the high cure rate when found by screening compared to being discovered based on symptoms, the uptake of this technique among those who are eligible and where the screening is fully covered by insurance remains dismally low, on the order of...
Expert Point of View: Rimas V. Lukas, MD
Rimas V. Lukas, MD, a neuro-oncologist at Northwestern Medicine Lou and Jean Malnati Brain Tumor Institute, Chicago, praised the investigators’ willingness to explore relatively new areas of cancer research. “This is an interesting study by a strong group delving further into the nervous...
Study Finds Microbiome-Derived Vaccine Plus Nivolumab and Bevacizumab May Improve Outcomes in Recurrent Glioblastoma
A microbiome-derived therapeutic vaccine (EO2401) has demonstrated immune responses and anticancer activity in combination with nivolumab and bevacizumab in patients with recurrent glioblastoma, one of the most difficult-to-treat cancers, according to data presented at the 2022 Society for...
From the Clinic to the Lab: Overcoming Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Therapy
As a result of breakthroughs in immune checkpoint inhibitors over the past decade, immunotherapy has joined surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy as one of the pillars of cancer treatment. However, nearly half of patients still do not benefit from immune checkpoint blockade. During the 2022...
Expert Point of View: Ryan J. Sullivan, MD
Ryan J. Sullivan, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor of Hematology/Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, told The ASCO Post that tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) cell therapy is likely to become a standard practice in the field....
Study Finds Lifileucel Active in Advanced Melanoma After Disease Progression on Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Cell therapy with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) may address an important unmet need for patients with difficult-to-treat melanoma after disease progression on immune checkpoint inhibitors, according to data presented during the 2022 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual ...
Phase III NORA Study: Niraparib Maintenance Shows Favorable Overall Survival Trend in Platinum-Sensitive Recurrent Ovarian Cancer
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor maintenance therapy may do more than just delay disease progression for patients with platinum-sensitive, relapsed ovarian cancer; it might also improve overall survival, according to data presented by Mansoor Raza Mirza, MD, during the December Virtual ...
Study Reports Activity With Oncolytic Vaccine Plus Pembrolizumab in BCG-Unresponsive Bladder Cancer
An oncolytic therapy delivered within the urinary bladder in combination with pembrolizumab has yielded the “best results seen in the field” in patients with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive bladder cancer, according to data presented during the 2022 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer...
Expert Point of View: Therese M. Mulvey, MD, FASCO
Discussant of the abstract on electronic symptom management, Therese M. Mulvey, MD, FASCO, Director of Breast Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital North Shore Cancer Center, Boston, said the SIMPRO study showed that electronic patient-reported outcomes can be implemented into real-world...
Patient-Reported Outcomes Study Finds Severe Symptoms in Meaningful Minority of Patients With Cancer
Routine monitoring in the real world may help to identify patients with cancer who are experiencing challenging symptoms, without significantly disrupting clinical workload, according to data presented during the 2022 ASCO Quality Care Symposium.1,2 The analysis of nearly 40,000 patient-reported...
