A novel risk model may be effective at using baseline sociodemographic and financial measures to predict the risk of long-term aromatase inhibitor nonadherence among patients with breast cancer, according to new findings presented by Hershman et al at the 2023 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium...
A novel selective biomarker tool (Troplex) may help select which antibody-drug conjugate therapy could be most effective in patients with metastatic breast cancer, according to findings presented by Robbins et al at the 2023 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (Abstract PO3-13-11). Background...
Mark D. Tyson, MD, MPH, of the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, discusses the first results from BOND-003, a phase III study of intravesical cretostimogene grenadenorepvec monotherapy for patients with high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer that does not respond to Bacillus...
A large cohort study of peripheral blood T-cell receptor (TCR) clonotype diversity in patients with breast cancer diagnosed with either ductal carcinoma in situ or de novo stage IV disease has found that the diversity of T cells is associated with age and intratumor immune status and might be...
In an analysis from the European Mantle Cell Lymphoma Elderly Trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Hoster et al found that outcomes with rituximab maintenance were better in patients aged ≥ 60 years with mantle cell lymphoma who had measurable residual disease (MRD)-negative vs...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Yohann Loriot, MD, PhD, and colleagues, cohort 1 of the phase III THOR trial has shown improved overall survival with erdafitinib vs chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic urothelial carcinoma with...
Investigators have found that chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy may be an effective but unaffordable second-line treatment option for patients with relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), according to a recent study published by Kelkar et al in the Annals of Internal Medicine....
A combination of two HER2-targeted drugs—tucatinib and ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1), extended progression-free survival among patients with unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer compared with T-DM1 alone, according to results from the HER2CLIMB-02 trial...
For patients whose breast cancer converted from lymph node–positive to lymph node–negative disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, skipping adjuvant regional nodal irradiation did not increase the risk of disease recurrence or death 5 years after surgery, according to results from the NRG...
Samson W. Fine, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the evolving spectrum of atypical intraductal proliferations in the prostate, from high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia to intraductal carcinoma. He describes several clinical challenges, including: assessment and...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Bradley J. Monk, MD, and colleagues, the phase III CALLA trial showed no significant improvement in progression-free survival with the addition of durvalumab to chemoradiotherapy in previously untreated patients with locally advanced cervical cancer. Study...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Josep M. Llovet, MD, and colleagues, the phase III LEAP-002 trial has shown that the addition of pembrolizumab to lenvatinib in the first-line treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma did not reach statistical superiority thresholds for overall or...
In the phase II PNOC001 trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Daphne A. Haas-Kogan, MD, MBA, and colleagues found that everolimus showed activity in pediatric patients with recurrent or progressive low-grade glioma. PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway activation was not correlated with clinical...
Investigators have found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescent and young adult cancer survivors in the United States may be more likely to report chronic health conditions compared with their LGB peers without a cancer diagnosis and heterosexual counterparts with a history of cancer,...
The unique public-private partnership that undergirded the Lung-MAP trial for almost a decade may serve as a model for future clinical research that is more rapid, innovative, and inclusive, according to a recent report published by Herbst et al in Clinical Cancer Research. Background The Lung-MAP...
In a combined analysis of two Chinese phase II trials (RC48-C005 and RC48-C009) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sheng et al found that the antibody-drug conjugate disitamab vedotin—an anti-HER2 antibody conjugated with monomethyl auristatin—produced promising results in patients with...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Charles M. Rudin, MD, PhD, and colleagues, the phase III SKYSCRAPER-02 trial showed no progression-free or overall survival benefit with the addition of the T-cell immunoglobulin and ITM domain (TIGIT) inhibitor tiragolumab to atezolizumab and...
William J. Catalona, MD, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, reviews the genetic landscape in prostate cancer, including BRCA2 and ATM, two important mutations for aggressive disease; the clinical implications of germline testing such as guiding screening and disease management, ...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology, Im et al have developed risk-prediction models for primary ovarian insufficiency in long-term survivors of childhood cancer. Study Details In the study, models to predict age-specific risk of primary ovarian insufficiency were evaluated among 5-year survivors...
On December 1, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to pirtobrutinib (Jaypirca) for adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) who have received at least two prior lines of therapy, including a Bruton’s tyrosine...
Investigators have found that Black men diagnosed with more advanced stages of prostate cancer may be significantly less likely to be prescribed novel hormone therapy compared with men from other racial and ethnic groups, according to a recent study published by Martin et al in JAMA Network Open....
Researchers have uncovered that the regular consumption of navy beans may help modulate markers linked to obesity and disease and improve the gut microbiome in colorectal cancer survivors, according to a novel study published by Zhang et al in eBioMedicine. Background Obesity, poor diet, and...
In a nationwide Danish cohort study reported in JAMA Oncology, Nors et al found the 5-year risk of recurrence after surgery for stage I to III colorectal cancer decreased over time and the time to recurrence was shorter with a more advanced disease stage. Study Details The study used the Danish...
Patients who regularly attend screening mammograms may have a reduced risk of breast cancer mortality, according to recent findings presented by Smith et al at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2023 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting (Abstract R1-SSBR10-4). Background Early...
In the phase II SPRINT trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Ohri et al found that a chemotherapy-sparing regimen of pembrolizumab with risk-adapted radiotherapy was associated with good outcomes in patients with stage III or unresectable stage II non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)...
The combination of ipilimumab and nivolumab may result in a higher levels of toxicities in patients with unresectable pleural mesothelioma than was reported in the CheckMate 743 trial, according to a recent study published by McNamee et al in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology. Background Australia...
In a European study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Heymer et al found that the risk of subsequent colorectal cancer was elevated among childhood cancer survivors who had undergone abdominopelvic radiotherapy. Study Details The study used data from the PanCareSurFup Study—a...
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2023 held in Madrid reported out several eagerly awaited and potentially practice-changing trials, bringing forward promising new combination strategies in the targeted and immunotherapy space, and put to the test selective agents against...
Invited discussant, Elizabeth Smyth, MD, a consultant in gastrointestinal oncology at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom, commented on the notable impact in pathologic complete response rates with the addition of checkpoint inhibitors in MATTERHORN and...
The addition of immune checkpoint inhibitors to perioperative chemotherapy for gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers boosts pathologic complete response rates, but the ultimate impact on clinical outcomes remains unclear, according to interim analyses from two phase III trials presented at...
Abstract discussant Miriam Koopman, MD, PhD, Professor of Medical Oncology at the University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Vice Chair of the Dutch Colorectal Cancer Group, commented that CodeBreaK 300 showed a high degree of tumor shrinkage and a significant progression-free...
The combination of sotorasib and panitumumab significantly improved progression-free survival compared with standard treatment in patients with chemotherapy-refractory metastatic colorectal cancer with KRAS G12C mutations, the phase III CodeBreaK 300 trial has shown. The KRAS G12C inhibitor...
Invited discussant Andrea Apolo, MD, of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, emphasized that the EV-302/KEYNOTE-A39 and CheckMate 901 trials mark a significant achievement. “Outperforming chemotherapy in first-line therapy is monumental for our field. The two studies presented are...
Two phase III trials presented at a Presidential Symposium during the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2023 showed an overall survival benefit for patients with advanced urothelial cancer. The results from both studies were hailed as practice-changing. The EV-302/KEYNOTE-A39...
The invited discussant of TROPION-Breast01, Sarat Chandarlapaty, MD, PhD, Member of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, said the results suggest datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) may be a good treatment option for a subset of patients,...
The TROP-2–directed antibody-drug conjugate datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) significantly improved progression-free survival over standard chemotherapy in the TROPION-Breast01 trial involving patients with previously treated, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, unresectable and/or...
Invited discussant of the LIBRETTO-531 trial, Laura Locati, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pavia and Medical Oncology Unit, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Italy, commented: “Selpercatinib is a new...
First-line treatment with selpercatinib achieved a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival and overall response rate vs treatment with cabozantinib or vandetanib in patients with multikinase inhibitor–naive, RET-mutant advanced or metastatic medullary thyroid cancer.1 At...
Invited discussant of TROPION-Lung01, Sarat Chandarlapaty, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, was cautiously optimistic about this new treatment option. “Dato-DXd [datopotamab deruxtecan] has a benefit over standard-of-care docetaxel in the second-line setting. There...
In a German phase II trial (INITIAL-1) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Matthias Stelljes, MD, and colleagues found that inotuzumab ozogamicin–based induction therapy followed by age-adapted chemotherapy was associated with promising outcomes in newly diagnosed patients older than age...
Datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd), a TROP-2–directed antibody-drug conjugate, improved progression-free survival by 25% on blinded independent committee review in previously treated patients with advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and it was reported to be less toxic than...
An artificial intelligence (AI) model may be capable of using routine chest x-ray images to identify nonsmokers who may be at high risk for lung cancer, according to new findings presented by Walia et al at the Radiological Society of North American (RSNA) 2023 Scientific Assembly and Annual...
In an Indian phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Ostwal et al found that trastuzumab plus gemcitabine/cisplatin was active in treatment-naive patients with advanced HER2-positive biliary tract adenocarcinoma. Study Details In the investigator-initiated multicenter trial, 90 ...
A higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods may be associated with the development of cancer of the upper–aerodigestive tract such as head and neck cancer and esophageal adenocarcinoma, according to a recent study published by Morales-Berstein et al in the European Journal of Nutrition. The new...
Formal discussant of the ALINA trial Marina C. Garassino, MD, of the University of Chicago, agreed these results are “impressive and practice changing.” However, she said, at this point, more consideration is needed before jettisoning chemotherapy. “I don’t think we should stop giving adjuvant...
In a Swedish study reported in JAMA Oncology, Mao et al found that women with a false-positive mammography result were more likely to be subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer compared to women with no false-positive result. Study Details The study involved data from 45,213 women who received a...
Treatment with the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor alectinib significantly reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 76% (P < .0001) in patients with completely resected stage IB to IIIA ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared with platinum-based chemotherapy. This...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received reports of T-cell malignancies, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-positive lymphoma, in patients who received treatment with B cell maturation antigen (BCMA)- or CD19-directed autologous CAR T-cell immunotherapies. Reports were...
Zofia Piotrowska, MD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, noted that MARIPOSA and MARIPOSA-2 are “two well-designed, randomized phase III trials, each meeting its primary endpoints and representing important advances for patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer.”...
Widely anticipated findings from the MARIPOSA1 and MARIPOSA-22 trials were presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2023, showing potentially improved outcomes with regimens incorporating the bispecific antibody amivantamab-vmjw for patients with advanced non–small...