In a Spanish phase II trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Mariano Provencio, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that the combination of atezolizumab and bevacizumab was active in the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with high tumor mutation...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Jayasekera et al identified the benefits and harms of using risk-reducing medication in addition to screening in patients with high-risk, estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer. As stated by the investigators, “Recent studies,...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Qin et al, the phase III KEYNOTE-394 trial showed overall and progression-free survival benefits with pembrolizumab vs placebo in previously treated Asian patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Study Details The double-blind trial...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Margaret A. Tempero, MD, and colleagues, the phase III APACT trial has shown no improvement in independently assessed disease-free survival (the study’s primary endpoint) with the addition of adjuvant nab-paclitaxel to gemcitabine in...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Lowe et al, findings in an arm of the Children’s Oncology Group phase II ANHL12P1 trial (arm CZ) showed high event-free and overall survival rates with the addition of crizotinib to chemotherapy in newly diagnosed pediatric patients with...
In a UK study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Lee et al found that systematic random biopsies were more likely than endoscopically targeted biopsies to first detect signet ring cell carcinoma during endoscopic surveillance of individuals meeting testing criteria for hereditary diffuse gastric...
In an analysis from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Friedman et al found low rates of late mortality and subsequent malignant neoplasms in survivors of neuroblastoma treated in infancy. The risk of severe chronic health conditions decreased during...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Prudence A. Francis, MD, and colleagues, 12-year results of the phase III SOFT trial show a maintained disease-free survival benefit with the addition of ovarian function suppression to adjuvant tamoxifen in premenopausal patients with hormone...
In a Chinese study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sun et al developed a risk prediction model (BRCA-CRisk) to assess the risk of contralateral breast cancer in patients with breast cancer and BRCA1/2 pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants. Study Details The model was developed in a...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Tian et al found that clonal hematopoiesis was associated with an increased risk of subsequent lung cancer, independent of known risk factors. Study Details Two nested case-control studies were performed. One included 832 incident lung cancer ...
In a single-center phase II trial (HYPORT-STS) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Guadagnolo et al found that a hypofractionated 3-week course of preoperative radiotherapy was safe in patients with soft-tissue sarcomas and may serve as an alternative to conventionally fractionated radiotherapy in...
In a U.S. registry-based cohort study reported in The Lancet, Butterfield et al found that Black patients were significantly more likely than White patients to receive recommendations against surgical resection for multiple types of newly diagnosed brain tumors. Study Details The study included...
In a Canadian phase III trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Behroozian et al found that the use of Mepitel film—a silicone-based polyurethane film dressing—significantly reduced the incidence of grade 2 or 3 acute radiation dermatitis vs usual care in at-risk women receiving...
In a prespecified analysis of the Italian phase II FORTE trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Mina et al identified outcomes associated with the number of high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities (HRCAs) across treatment groups receiving carfilzomib-containing induction, consolidation, and maintenance ...
In a single academic hospital network retrospective case-control study reported in JACC: CardioOncology, Lee et al found that patients with vs without preexisting autoimmune disease who received immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for cancer had significantly increased risk of cardiovascular...
In a study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Garcia-Pelaez and colleagues found that presence of germline truncating pathogenic variants or likely pathogenic variants of CDH1 were associated with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) tumor risk syndrome–related cancer phenotypes (lobular breast...
On November 14, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx accelerated approval for patients with folate receptor alpha (FRα)-positive, platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who have received one to three...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Bröckelmann et al, final results of the German Hodgkin Study Group phase II NIVAHL trial indicate nearly 100% progression-free survival and 100% overall survival at 3 years among patients with early-stage unfavorable classical Hodgkin lymphoma...
In a study reported in JACC: CardioOncology, Kondapalli et al found that cardiovascular events common in the general population were observed both prior to and after initiation of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for cancer; myocarditis was more common posttreatment, but infrequent. Agreement...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Thomas Yau, MD, and colleagues, findings in a cohort of the phase I/II CheckMate 040 trial indicated the activity of nivolumab/cabozantinib with or without ipilimumab in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. Study Details In the...
In a U.S. population-based study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cohen et al found that Black patients had the lowest incidence of cervical adenocarcinoma—but the poorest related 5-year survival and overall mortality—compared to patients with cervical adenocarcinoma in other...
On September 20, 2022, sodium thiosulfate was approved to reduce the risk of ototoxicity associated with cisplatin in pediatric patients (aged ≥ 1 month) with localized, nonmetastatic solid tumors.1 Supporting Efficacy Data Approval was based on findings in the multicenter open-label SIOPEL 6...
Long-term results of the phase III Mantle Cell Lymphoma Younger Trial were reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Hermine et al. They showed a maintained advantage in time to treatment failure and an overall survival advantage with R-CHOP/R-DHAP (alternating rituximab plus...
On May 25, 2022, ivosidenib was approved for use in combination with azacitidine for newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia with a susceptible IDH1 mutation, as detected by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved test, in patients aged 75 or older or in those who have comorbidities precluding...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Stephen R.D. Johnston, MD, PhD, and colleagues, an interim analysis of overall survival in the phase III monarchE trial has shown no significant benefit with the addition of adjuvant abemaciclib to endocrine therapy in patients with hormone receptor–positive,...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Nyberg et al developed the risk model CanRisk-Prostate for predicting the development of prostate cancer based on age, detailed cancer family history, moderate- to high-risk pathogenic variants, and a polygenic score for common low-risk...
On November 10, 2022, tremelimu-mab in combination with durvalumab and platinum-based chemotherapy was approved for patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with no sensitizing EGFR mutation or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.1 Supporting Efficacy Data Approval was supported by...
In an analysis from the HOPE trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Mina S. Sedrak, MD, MS, and colleagues found that approximately one-fifth of older women with early-stage breast cancer received a relative dose intensity (RDI) of neoadjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy that was below...
In an analysis from the BMT Survivor Study (BMTSS) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH, and colleagues found that survivors of blood or marrow transplantation (BMT) were more likely to have high out-of-pocket medical costs vs comparator siblings during the COVID-19...
In a Swedish study (GÖTEBORG-2) reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Hugosson et al found that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-targeted prostate biopsy was associated with a lower risk of overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer compared with MRI-targeted and...
On November 10, 2022, brentuximab vedotin was approved for use in combination with doxorubicin, vincristine, etoposide, prednisone, and cyclophosphamide for pediatric patients aged ≥ 2 years with previously untreated high-risk classical Hodgkin lymphoma.1 Supporting Efficacy Data Approval was...
The final results of the phase III CheckMate 651 trial showed no significant overall survival benefit with first-line nivolumab/ipilimumab vs the EXTREME regimen (cetuximab plus cisplatin or carboplatin plus fluorouracil for up to six cycles, followed by cetuximab maintenance) in recurrent or...
In a phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Fu et al found that the WEE1 kinase inhibitor adavosertib was active in patients with refractory solid tumors with CCNE1 amplification, with evidence of increased activity in epithelial ovarian cancer. Study Details In the trial, 30...
In a Dutch-Danish phase III trial reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Rohaan et al found that tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy prolonged progression-free survival vs ipilimumab in patients with advanced melanoma. Study Details The open-label trial included 168 patients...
In a European cohort study (EPI-CT) reported in The Lancet Oncology, Hauptmann et al found an increased risk of brain cancer with increasing brain radiation dose among children and young adults who had undergone computed tomography (CT) scans. Study Details The study used pooled data from nine...
In the Canadian 5C study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Puts et al found that a geriatric assessment and management intervention did not improve quality of life, unplanned health-care use, mortality, or toxicity compared with usual care in patients aged 70 years or older with cancer. ...
In a retrospective cohort study reported in JAMA Surgery, Hammad et al found that adjuvant therapy was associated with better outcomes vs no adjuvant therapy in patients with node-negative disease after neoadjuvant therapy and resection of pancreatic carcinoma. Study Details The study used data...
In updated analyses from the phase III HER2CLIMB trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Nancy U. Lin, MD, and colleagues found that the addition of tucatinib to trastuzumab and capecitabine showed improved outcomes among previously treated patients with HER2-positive breast cancer and baseline brain...
On November 8, 2022, cemiplimab-rwlc was approved for use in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for first-line treatment of patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with no EGFR, ALK, or ROS1 aberrations.1 Supporting Efficacy Data Approval was supported by findings in the ...
On October 25, 2022, the bispecific B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed CD3 T-cell engager teclistamab-cqyv was granted accelerated approval for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least four prior lines of therapy, including a proteasome...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Panattoni et al found that patients dying from cancer located in Washington State who were insured by Medicaid were more likely to die at home without hospice services during the COVID-19 pandemic than those with commercial insurance. Study...
On June 22, 2022, dabrafenib in combination with trametinib was granted accelerated approval for treatment of adult and pediatric patients (aged 6 and older) with unresectable or metastatic solid tumors with BRAF V600E mutation whose disease progressed following prior treatment and who have no...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Damgacioglu et al found that squamous cell carcinoma of the anus incidence and mortality rates increased in men and women aged ≥ 50 years at diagnosis between 2001 to 2005 and 2014 to 2018, with increases concentrated in Midwestern and...
On September 2, 2022, durvalumab was approved for use in combination with gemcitabine/cisplatin for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer.1 Supporting Efficacy Data Approval was based on findings in the double-blind TOPAZ-1 trial (NCT03875235), in which...
On September 30, 2022, futibatinib was granted accelerated approval for adults with previously treated, unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma harboring fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) gene fusions or other rearrangements.1 Supporting Efficacy ...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Patrick M. Forde, MB, BCh, of Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, and colleagues, the phase III CheckMate 816 trial has shown improved pathologic complete response rate and event-free survival with the addition of nivolumab to platinum-based...
On September 21, 2022, selpercatinib was granted accelerated approval for adults with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors with RET gene fusion whose disease has progressed on or following prior systemic treatment or who have no satisfactory alternative treatment options.1 On the same day,...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Paolo A. Ascierto, MD, and colleagues, the second interim overall survival analysis of the phase III IMspire150 trial has shown a numeric but statistically nonsignificant improvement with the addition of first-line atezolizumab to vemurafenib and cobimetinib in ...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Sonneveld et al, the final overall survival analysis of the phase III CASTOR trial has shown a significant overall survival benefit with daratumumab plus bortezomib/dexamethasone (D-Vd) vs bortezomib/dexamethasone alone (Vd) in patients with...
In a retrospective study reported in JAMA Oncology, Rakaee et al found that tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) levels ascertained via machine learning–based scoring on standard histologic images were associated with response in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for non–small...