ASCO Annual Meeting

In patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, treatment with higher doses of subcutaneous elranatamab was found to be effective, according to findings from a phase 1 clinical trial.

Few patients required subsequent anticancer therapies with the combination of lenvatinib (Lenvima) plus everolimus versus sunitinib for advanced renal cell carcinoma

Sustained efficacy and durable responses was seen with Ciltacabtagene autoleucel, an investigational B-cell maturation antigen-directed CAR T-cell therapy, in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

In patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer combining transurethral resection of the bladder tumor with nivolumab and chemotherapy showed promise as a bladder-sparing treatment strategy.

A favorable safety profile and promising efficacy was seen with C-CAR066, a novel 2nd generation chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy targeting the CD20 antigen, in adult patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma who failed with prior CD19 CAR T-cell therapy.

Updated analysis from the MonumentTAL-1 trial showed the benefits of the recommended phase II dose of talquetamab in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Data from the phase 2 the phase 3 SWOG S1216 presented during the ASCO Annual Meeting shows numerical overall survival improvement with he experimental combination that missed the threshold for statistical significance.

Pimitespib, a heat shock protein 90 inhibitor doubled the progression-free survival and prolonged the overall survival compared with placebo in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor that is refractory to imatinib, sunitinib, and regorafenib, according to results from the phase 3 CHAPTER-GIST-301 trial.

According to updated results presented during the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting, teclistamab administered at the recommended phase 2 dose demonstrated encouraging safety and efficacy among patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma treated in a first-in-human phase 1 trial.

The combination of alrizomadlin and pembrolizumab was well tolerated in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma or advanced solid tumors that have been resistant to immuno-oncologic drugs treated in a phase 2 study.

The risk of fractures in men with asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer was controlled by the use of bone-protecting agents during treatment with radium-223 plus enzalutamide.

A second-generation 4chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell agent has induced responses in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma treated in a phase 1 study.

The combination of regorafenib and avelumab showed modest anti-tumor activity and survival rates in patients with heavily-pretreated biliary tract solid tumors.

In the phase 2 PANAMA trial, adding panitumumab to 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin showed significant improvement in progression-free survival as a maintenance treatment over 5-FU/leucovorin alone in patients with RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer.

With addition 16-month follow-up, the benefit of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki as treatment of patients with HER2-overexpressing metastatic colorectal cancer showed results that were consistent with the primary analysis of the DESTINY-CRC01 trial study.

In the phase 2 ELARA trial, treatment with the autologous CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, tisagenlecleucel, achieved a high response rate that appeared durable, in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma.

Over half, 56%, of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma who were treated with The combination of ibrutinib plus venetoclax produced a complete response and complete response with incomplete bone marrow recovery

The protocol of pembrolizumab in combination with gemcitabine and concurrent hypofractionated radiotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer demonstrated safety and efficacy.

The FOLFOXIRI regimen in combination with bevacizumab is preferred over FOLFOXIRI plus cetuximab for the treatment of patients with RAS wild type, BRAF V600E mutant metastatic colorectal cancer.

In patients with ERBB2/ERBB3-expressed, mutated, or -amplified uterine cancer, the combination of pertuzumab and trastuzumab led to a 37% disease control rate, according to results from the Targeted Agent Profiling and Utilization Registry study.

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma treated with the combination of ibrutinib plus venetoclax had complete response and complete response with a 56% incomplete bone marrow recover rate in the phase 2 CAPTIVATe study.

Benefit was maintained in progression-free survival, overall survival, and objective response rate with the antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan over physician’s choice of therapy, regardless of the chemotherapy agent used.

Similar health-reatled quality of life outcomes and disease-related symptom scores were seen between the combination of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab and sunitinib for the frontline treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

In select previously treated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, treatment with acalabrutinib was found to be noninferior but better tolerated compared with ibrutinib.

Across 3 HER2-negative biomarker signature groups, treatment with intra-tumoral SD-101 in combination with pembrolizumab and paclitaxel increased estimated pathological complete response rates in patients with high-risk, HER2-negative stage II/III breast cancer, but the results were not considered significant, according to findings from the phase 2 I-SPY 2 trial.

Promising responses and disease control rates were observed with larotrectinib administered as treatment of patients with TRK fusion-positive central nervous system tumors.

Investigators in the PALOMA-3 trial have concluded that Palbociclib plus fulvestrant maintains a clinically meaningful long-term overall survival benefit for patients with either HR+ or HER2 negative breast cancer.

Looking at 6.5 years of follow-up data from the phase 3 CheckMate-067 trial shows maintained outcomes in patients with advanced melanoma on nivolumab alone, or with ipilimumab.

Further follow up of lifileucel in patients with melanoma showed potentially follow progression on anti—PD-1 therapy.

Pediatric patients with advanced RET-altered solid tumors showed preliminary efficacy with selpercatinib, according to data presented at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting.