ASCO Annual Meeting

Halle Moore, MD, discusses key takeaways from a study on young patients with breast cancer carrying BRCA mutations presented at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting.

According to findings from a retrospective analysis, young adults under 40 years of age who received a human papillomavirus vaccination had lower rates of HPV-related cancer.

A study offers promising news for young women with early-stage breast cancer who want to have children after treatment, showing that 73% of breast cancer survivors who attempted pregnancy were successful.

A study has shown artificial intelligence virtual navigation to be a promising tool to improve colonoscopy completion rates, with high patient acceptance.

CEE therapy alone in postmenopausal women after hysterectomy was linked to a substantial increase in ovarian cancer incidence and mortality.

In the phase 2 KEYNOTE-942 trial, the 18-month distant metastasis-free survival rate was 91.8% with mRNA-4157 plus pembrolizumab vs 76.8% with pembrolizumab alone.

Updated progression-free survival analysis data presented at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting favored the combination of nivolumab plus relatlimab in patients with melanoma.

At a median follow-up of 4.1 months, the overall response rate across all patients with advanced solid tumors treated with BL-B01D1 was 45.3%, according to data from a phase 1 study.

In most key prespecified molecularly defined subsets of patients with pretreated KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer, sotorasib continued to demonstrate consistent benefit vs docetaxel.

Epcoritamab plus rituximab/lenalidomide demonstrated antitumor activity in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma, including those with high-risk features.

Treatment with lisocabtagene maraleucel elicited encouraging responses and met the primary end point of the TRANSCEND CLL 004 trial in patients with relapsed/refractory CLL/SLL.

The phase 3 LUNAR trial evaluating tumor treating fields with standard-of-care therapies met its primary end point in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Data presented at the ASCO 2023 Annual Meeting showed that the addition of pembrolizumab to pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy did not statistically improve survival in patients with TKI-resistant EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

Phase 2 results have placed a novel EGFR exon 20 insertion inhibitors in the realm of possibilities for future treatment of previously-treated non–small cell lung cancer with EGFR exon 20 insertions in the tumor tissue.

New results from the TROPION-Lung02 trial highlight the potential of the antibody-drug conjugate datopotamab deruxtecan with pembrolizumab for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

The combination of avutometinib with defactinib elicited high activity in patients with recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer, according to data from RAMP 201.

Eftilagimod alpha plus pembrolizumab showed an overall response rate of over 25% in patients with metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma treated in the phase 2 TACTI-002 study.

The use of maintenance niraparib therapy led to clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival, compared with placebo, in patients with newly diagnosed, advanced ovarian cancer.

Second-line maintenance therapy with niraparib improved overall survival in a BRCA gene wild-type population with recurrent ovarian cancer.

Treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel in the second-line setting led to significant improvement in overall survival compared with high-dose therapy plus transplant in patients with early relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Data from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-426 continue to support pembrolizumab plus axitinib as a standard of care for patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

According to Binod Dhakal, MD, ciltacabtagene autoleucel may become a new standard therapy for patients with lenalidomide (Revlimid)-refractory multiple myeloma.

Lasofoxifene in combination abemaciclib showed antitumor activity that was not compromised by co-occuring alterations that confer endocrine resistance.

A sustained overall survival benefit has been reported from the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 study.

The combination of doxorubicin, balstilimab, and zalifrelimab has some early signals of activity in both immune hot and cold sarcoma subtypes with manageable toxicity.

The primary end point was not reached in the phase 3 SOLSTICE study.

Patritumab deruxtecan treatment yielded efficacy results and was safe for patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Thomas Hutson, DO, PharmD, FACP has updated reported efficacy results from the phase 2 CLEAR study.

Correlative work is ongoing following positive results from the phase 1 study of cabozantinib with nivolumab and ipilimumab.