March 20th 2024
The FDA fast-tracked MVR-T3011, an intratumorally injected oncolytic virus, for treating recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell cancer post-platinum chemotherapy and at least 1 prior anti-PD1/PDL1 therapy.
What’s in Your Basket? Tumor Agnostic Trials and the Reshaping of Precision Medicine in Oncology: A Focus on TSC1/2 Mutations
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Community Practice Connections™: Real-World Applications of Novel Therapies Across TNBC and Addressing Disparities in Care
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Advances in TNBC: Communicating with Your Patients About Clinical Trial Awareness and Treatment Concerns to Improve Clinical Outcomes
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Community Practice Connections™: 5th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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Cabozantinib Lands Breakthrough Therapy Designation in RAI-Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
February 26th 2021The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to cabozantinib for the potential treatment of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer that has progressed following prior therapy and who are radioactive iodine-refractory if eligible for radioactive iodine.
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FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Tipifarnib in HRAS+ HNSCC
February 25th 2021The FDA has granted a Breakthrough Therapy Designation to tipifarnib for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic HRAS-mutant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with variant allele frequency ≥ 20% after disease progression on platinum-based chemotherapy.
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KESTREL Study Misses Primary and Secondary End Points in Advanced HNSCC
February 5th 2021Treatment with single-agent durvalumab did not improve overall survival when compared with the standard-of-care frontline combination of chemotherapy plus cetuximab as treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma whose tumors highly expressed PD-L1.
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Second-Line Tislelizumab Demonstrates OS Benefit in Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
January 28th 2021Tislelizumab improved overall survival compared with investigator’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with advanced unresectable or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who have received prior systemic therapy.
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VEGFR Targeting with Cabozantinib Achieves PFS Benefit in RAI-Refractory DTC
December 22nd 2020Cabozantinib demonstrated significant improvement in progression-free survival in patients with radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer who have progressed after up to 2 prior vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-targeted therapies compared with placebo, meeting the primary end point of the pivotal phase 3 COSMIC-311 clinical trial.
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Xevinapant Combination Induced Significant Overall Survival Improvements in LA-SCCHN
September 19th 2020The addition og xevinapant to standard cisplatin-based concomitant fractionation chemoradiation therapy led to a reduction in the risk of mortality as treatment of patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
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Novel IAP Inhibitor Shows Significant OS Benefit for High-Risk Head and Neck Cancer
August 13th 2020Debio 1143, a potential first-in-class inhibitor of apoptosis proteins, demonstrated a statistically and clinically significant overall survival improvement when used in combination with chemoradiotherapy as treatment of patients with high-risk locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, according to a press release from Debiopharm.
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FDA Grants Pembrolizumab Priority Review for TMB-High Tumors
April 7th 2020The FDA has accepted and granted a priority review to a supplemental Biologics License Application for pembrolizumab for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with unresectable or metastatic solid tumors with tissue tumor mutational burden-high who have progressed following prior treatment and who have no satisfactory alternative treatment options.
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Chemotherapy Toxicity Correlates With Nutritional Factors in Solid Tumors
March 30th 2020An association was found between a lower risk of grade 3 or higher chemotherapy toxicity with higher body mass indexes and normal albumin, a protein made in the liver, levels in older adult patients with solid tumors, according to an analysis of a prospective, multicenter study.
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COVID-19 Presents an Opportunity for Precision Medicine to Play Expanded Role in Care
March 30th 2020A sudden surge in the cases of COVID-19 due to pandemic, along with efforts to contain it, has led to multiple challenges that no country has experienced in the last several decades. The global pandemic from COVID-19 poses a unique set of challenges not only for patients with cancer who need their treatment, but also for caregivers, oncologists, and the overall care team.
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South Carolina Oncology Practice Continues Cautious Operation Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
March 23rd 2020In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Kashyap Patel, MD, discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of new precautions in his practice as the number of COVID-19 infected persons rises in the state.<br />
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Benefit of PARP Inhibitors May Extend to Certain Tumors With IDH Mutations
March 21st 2020Patients harboring IDH1/2 muta­tions may receive benefit by the use of PARP inhibitors, with investigators initi­ating clinical trials in patients across multiple different tumor types to determine the efficacy of this strategy.
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Pembrolizumab Monotherapy Elicits Responses in Patients With Advanced Rare Cancers
March 20th 2020Treatment with pembrolizumab demonstrated antitumor activity along with tolerable toxicity in patients with 4 different rare and hard-to-treat malignancies, according to results from a phase II study led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers and published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.
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Bevacizumab Biosimilar Under Review by FDA
March 9th 2020The FDA has accepted a Biologics License Application for MYL-1402O, a proposed biosimilar to bevacizumab, according to a press release from co-developers Biocon and Mylan. The BLA is seeking approval for the biosimilar as a treatment for multiple types of cancer and the FDA has set an action date goal of December 27, 2020, for a decision on the BLA.
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A Look Back at FDA News from February 2020
March 4th 2020In February 2020, the FDA gave indications to multiple therapies meant for treatment of solid tumor and hematologic malignancies. FDA action included 10 Priority Reviews, 2 Breakthrough Therapy designations, and 2 Fast Track designations.
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FDA Grants Fast Track Designation to NBTXR3 in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancers
February 11th 2020An FDA Fast Track Designation was granted to the first-in-class radioenhancer NBTXR3 with or without cetuximab for the treatment of patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell cancer who are not eligible for platinum-based chemotherapy, according to a press release from Nanobiotix.
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Lenvatinib/Pembrolizumab Shows Promising Antitumor Activity and Safety in Select Solid Tumors
January 30th 2020In a phase II trial, the combination of lenvantinib and pembrolizumab demonstrated a manageable safety profile and encouraging antitumor activity in patients with selected advanced solid tumors. The decision to combine the agents was based on preclinical data, which suggested that VEGF and FGF signaling may enhance the therapeutic efficacy of lenvatinib.
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Integrating a geriatric assessment into the care of older adults who are receiving cancer treatment in communi­ty oncology practices improves patient and caregiver satisfaction and encourages commu­nication about aging-related concerns, accord­ing to results of a clinical trial that enrolled 541 patients with advanced cancer.
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Telehealth Delivers Access to Care and Cutting-Edge Clinical Research to Rural Areas
January 11th 2020The present and future benefits of telehealth in oncology can be observed through Tahoe For­est Cancer Center and its affiliation with the UC Davis Cancer Center, use of other remote clinics, and participation in virtual tumor boards. Even though there are roadblocks to telehealth reaching more locations and more patients, the potential benefit warrants the time needed to get over those hurdles.
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