ASCO Annual Meeting

"Based on these results, we note that the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab, which is now approved by the United States FDA, is a novel chemotherapy-sparing first-line treatment approach for advanced-stage non-small-cell lung cancer."

"In this trial, we show deep and durable responses with single-agent [belantamab mafodotin] were sustained with longer follow-up in this relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma population."

“Lu-PSMA is a novel class of therapy with high activity and relatively low toxicity, consistent with the results of prior single-center studies in phase II data. Lu-PSMA appears to represent a favorable treatment option compared to cabazitaxel in a selected population with high PSMA-expression.”

"Trastuzumab deruxtecan demonstrated clinical activity in this interim analysis, with a high ORR and durable response rate in a heavily pretreated population of patients with HER2-mutated NSCLC."

"The totality of data from the two trials presented at ASCO suggests that zanubrutinib may be a preferred treatment option for patients with WM, regardless of whether they have received prior treatment."

"Although patient numbers and follow-up were limited, savolitinib demonstrated encouraging efficacy and an improved safety profile versus sunitinib."

"We believe the TIVO-3 data demonstrate a favorable risk/benefit profile for tivozanib in the growing population of patients who have relapsed or become refractory to multiple lines of therapy, including checkpoint inhibitors."

Frontline treatment with the TIGIT inhibitor tiragolumab plus atezolizumab demonstrated greater efficacy versus single-agent checkpoint inhibitor therapy in locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer, according to results of the phase 2 CITYSCAPE trial reported at the 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology Virtual Scientific Program.

David O'Malley, MD, discusses the role of PARP inhibitors in the treatment landscape of ovarian cancer.

“Preliminary data for the 18 patients who have received belantamab mafodotin 2.5 mg/kg single dosing with bortezomib/dexamethasone suggests that this combination has an acceptable safety profile with no new safety signals identified. Clinical response looks promising."

Selinexor in combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone resulted in improvements in responses and outcomes compared with bortezomib and dexamethasone alone in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, according to findings from the phase 3 BOSTON trial from the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program.

Given the higher efficacy of carfilzomib seen in recent phase 2 trials, investigators sought to determine if carfilzomib could replace bortezomib in the current standard of care triplet induction regimen in standard and intermediate risk NDMM, but the study failed.

"Based on the results of our study, women who present with a new diagnosis of breast cancer already in stage IV should not be offered surgery and radiation for the primary breast tumor with the expectation of a survival benefit."

The risk for death from COVID-19 was greater for patients with stable cancer compared with patients who had no evidence of disease.

"It is a proof of concept of the efficacy of an immunotherapy in [patients with] gestational trophoblastic tumors , confirming the rationale we had."

"This is the first time that such a large precision oncology platform [involving] pediatric patients was assessed for its clinical benefit."

"Adjuvant osimertinib is the first targeted agent in a global randomized trial to show a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in disease-free survival in patients with stage IB/II/IIIA EGFR mutation–positive non–small cell lung cancer."

"Pembrolizumab works in non-randomized studies in this group of patients with advanced disease. This randomized study demonstrates a huge benefit in the first-line [setting] with pembrolizumab and should be the new standard of care."

"Prior administration of chemotherapy is associated with increased risk of death [from COVID-19] while immunotherapy and tyrosine kinase inhibitors are not."

"Avelumab first-line maintenance in patients whose disease has not progressed with platinum-based induction therapy is a new first-line standard of care for advanced urothelial carcinoma."

“In the final SOLO2 analysis, maintenance olaparib provided a clinically meaningful improvement of 12.9 months [in] median overall survival. These results demonstrate that olaparib maintenance monotherapy not only delays disease progression but also improves overall survival in women with platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer and a BRCA mutation.”

Larotrectinib demonstrated efficacy across analyses for both pediatric patients and those with brain metastases or primary central nervous system tumors, whether pediatric or adult, with TRK fusions.

Neoadjuvant talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) led to a significant improvement in the 1-year recurrence-free survival rate in patients with resectable advanced melanoma compared with surgery alone, according to a randomized trial presented at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Combining neratinib with capecitabine showed a 24% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with lapatinib plus capecitabine in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who had previously received 2 lines of HER2-targeted therapy, according to the results of the phase III NALA trial presented at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting.

In the placebo-controlled phase II FAKTION trial, a combination of capivasertib and fulvestrant showed a significant increase in progression-free survival compared to the use of fulvestrant alone in patients with endocrine-resistant estrogen receptor-positive advanced breast cancer.

The investigational PD-1 inhibitor spartalizumab demonstrated a high rate of complete responses in combination with&nbsp;dabrafenib and trametinib in&nbsp;patients with previously untreated advanced&nbsp;<em>BRAF&nbsp;</em>V600&ndash;mutant melanoma. Patients pooled from 2 parts of the 3-part COMBI-i study demonstrated a CR rate of more than 40%.

Compared to chemotherapy, treatment with the PARP inhibitor olaparib reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 38% in patients with platinum-sensitive, relapsed, germline&nbsp;<em>BRCA1/2</em>-mutated ovarian cancer who had received at least 2 prior chemotherapy regimens, based on topline findings from the confirmatory phase III SOLO3 trial.

According to the pivotal phase III CLL14 study presented during the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, venetoclax plus obinutuzumab demonstrated a lengthening in progression-free survival time for patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia compared with obinutuzumab plus chlorambucil. Trial results show that the chemotherapy-free combination reduced the risk for disease worsening or death by 65% compared with obinutuzumab plus chlorambucil.

Keith T. Flaherty, MD, director, Termeer Center for Targeted Therapy, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, shares updated overall survival data from the phase III COLUMBUS trial examining encorafenib plus binimetinib versus vemurafenib or encorafenib in patients with BRAF V600-mutant melanoma.

The combination of niraparib and bevacizumab demonstrated a significant increase in progression-free survival compared with niraparib alone in patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer, according to the results of the randomized ENGOT-OV24 trial.<br /> &nbsp;