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Balstilimab as a single agent and combined with zalifrelimab demonstrated promising objective response rates, regardless of PD-L1 expression, and a tolerable safety profile in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.

Researchers suggested these results from CheckMate-274 “point to the potential for nivolumab to become a new standard of care in the adjuvant setting, extending disease-free survival for post-surgery patients with muscle-invasive urothelial cancer without the use of chemotherapy.”

“Results from this study suggest that tisotumab vedotin has the potential to be a new therapy for patients with previously treated recurrent and/or metastatic cervical cancer,” said lead study author Robert L. Coleman, MD, FACOG, FACS.

Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with oxaliplatin, fluorouracil, and leucovorin significantly improved overall survival compared with transarterial chemoembolization in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

The addition of nivolumab (Opdivo) to chemotherapy resulted in a statistically significant improvement in PFS and evoked higher ORRs in patients with previously untreated advanced or recurrent gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer.

The designation was granted to DKN-01 for the treatment of patients with gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma whose tumors express high levels of DKK1.

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.

Cemiplimab-rwlc (Libtayo) monotherapy led to a significant improvement in overall survival and progression-free survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer with PD-L1 expression on at least 50% of their tumor cells.

The submission is based on results from the phase 2 LOTIS 2 clinical trial, which is evaluating the efficacy and safety of loncastuximab tesirine in patients with relapsed or refractory DLBCL following at least 2 lines of prior systemic therapy.

The supplemental new drug application seeks approval for crizotinib (Xalkori) to treat pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma that is ALK positive.

According to researchers, these early data support the rationale for further evaluation of immune-checkpoint inhibitor-based combinations in patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.

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.

The study found that that weekly dose-dense chemotherapy is not superior to standard 3 weekly chemotherapy for patients with epithelial ovarian cancer with regard to progression-free survival and overall survival.

The biologics license application for idecabtagene vicleucel is for the treatment of adult patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least 3 prior therapies, including an immunomodulatory agent, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 antibody.

Findings from the phase 2 FLIPPER trial indicated that frontline fulvestrant (Faslodex) in combination with palbociclib (Ibrance) demonstrated an improvement in PFS at 1 year in patients with endocrine-sensitive HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

“The combination of cabozantinib and atezolizumab demonstrated encouraging clinical activity in previously untreated patients with advanced ccRCC,” said investigator Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD.

Based on these data, researchers indicated that adjuvant osimertinib would be an effective and practice-changing treatment in this setting.

Frontline pembrolizumab (Keytruda) plus chemotherapy significantly improved overall survival, progression-free survival, and objective response rates compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic esophageal cancer.

In patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) with PTEN loss, ipatasertib combined with abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) plus prednisone led to a significantly superior radiographic progression-free survival and antitumor activity.

Apatinib in combination with gefitinib in the first-line setting demonstrated superior progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

Patients with triple-negative breast cancer experienced improved pathologic complete responses with the addition of neoadjuvant atezolizumab to chemotherapy.

The PARP inhibitor reduced the risk for death by 31% in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, compared with enzalutamide or abiraterone plus prednisone.

First-line treatment with the third-generation ALK TKI was also associated with higher overall and intracranial response rates in patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

“Dostarlimab demonstrated durable antitumor activity in both dMMR and MMRp advanced and recurrent endometrial cancer,” said Ana Oaknin, MD, PhD.

Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy induced significant activity with favorable tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Data for the phase 3 COMBI-i trial showed that spartalizumab combined with dabrafenib and trametinib did not meet its primary end xpoint of investigator-assessed progression-free survival.

Frontline pembrolizumab induced clinically meaningful improvements in the health-related quality of life of patients with microsatellite instability-high and/or mismatch repair-deficient metastatic colorectal cancer.

Durvalumab, with or without tremelimumab, failed to meet its primary end point of overall survival in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer.

The combination use of nivolumab plus ipilimumab, compared with sunitinib, continued to show benefit during a 4-year follow-up in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

“PD-L1 expression was significantly associated with pCR, which increased with higher PD-L1 expression on immune cells,” said Giampaolo Bianchini, an author of the NeoTRIPaPDL1 study.