Paul G. Richardson, MD, clinical program leader and director of clinical research of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and RJ Corman Professor of Medicine, Harvard School of Medicine, discusses the interesting safety and efficacy profiles of the HORIZON trial.
In an interview with <em>Targeted Oncology </em>during the 2019 SOHO Annual Meeting, <mark style="background-color:inherit; color:inherit; font-size:14px">Laura C. Michaelis, MD, </mark>discussed the currently approved JAK inhibitors and the future landscape for myelofibrosis, as well as treatment considerations for graft-versus-host disease.
The addition of isatuximab to carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone led to a response rate in all 10 patients included in a safety run-in cohort of the phase II, multicenter GMMG-CONCEPT trial.
Daratumumab in combination with bortezomib, thalidomide, and dexamethasone demonstrated benefit compared with VTd alone in subgroup analyses of patients with high-risk multiple myeloma from the phase III CASSIOPEIA trial.
Prithviraj Bose, MD, discusses differences in the safety profiles of ruxolitinib and fedratinib in the treatment of myelofibrosis.
Recent updates to the JULIET study, presented at the 2019 SOHO Annual Meeting, show that tisagenlecleucel has sustained benefit throughout the course of the trial with high response rates, and long duration in adults with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
In a retrospective study of patients with replaced or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma, checkpoint inhibition prior to haploidentical stem cell transplantation improved progression-free survival and risk for relapse, based on results presented at the 2019 SOHO Annual Meeting.
In an interview with <em>Targeted Oncology </em>during the 2019 SOHO Annual Meeting, Ruben Mesa, MD, discussed the JAKARTA and JAKARTA-2 studies and the implications their data have on the field of myelofibrosis.
David S. Snyder, MD, discusses using ruxolitinib to prevent patients receiving stem cell transplantation from developing graft versus host disease.
Naveen Pemmaraju, MD, discussed potential combination regimens with ruxolitinib (Jakafi) being explored to improve outcomes for patients with myelofibrosis at the 2019 SOHO Annual Meeting.
To improve the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies, Nirali N. Shah, MD, MHSc, suggested including new constructs that target more than 1 antigen in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, during a presentation at the 2019 SOHO Annual Meeting.<br />
Two analyses of the phase II DUO trial show that modifying the dosage of duvelisib or interrupting treatment in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma, does not compromise outcomes or increase toxicity.
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 dabrafenib and trametinib in patients with previously untreated advanced <em>BRAF </em>V600–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 <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 />
Two targeted therapies in development have demonstrated encouraging activity as potential treatments targeting hard-to-target driver alterations in lung cancer. During the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting, Christine M. Lovly, MD, PhD, reviewed the early promising findings for TAK-788 for patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring <em>EGFR</em> exon 20 insertions and for BLU-667 for patients with <em>RET </em>rearrangements.
Half of patients with <em>KRAS</em> G12C–positive advanced non–small cell lung cancer achieved a response from treatment with the investigational KRAS G12C inhibitor, AMG 510, in a phase I study presented at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Mansoor Mirza, MD, chief oncologist, Department of Oncology, Copenhagen University Hospital, discusses the findings from NSGO-AVANOVA2/ENGOT-OV24, the randomized controlled chemotherapy-free study of niraparib (Zejula) and bevacizumab (Avastin) versus niraparib alone in recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.
When the targeted agents ramucirumab and erlotinib were combined, progression was delayed by 7 months in patients with newly diagnosed <em>EGFR</em>-positive non–small cell lung cancer compared to erlotinib alone, according to findings from the phase III RELAY trial.
Promising responses have been seen with 2 highly selective, investigational MET inhibitors—tepotinib and capmatinib—in both the first- and second-line setting for patients with <em>MET</em> exon 14–altered advanced non–small cell lung cancer.
According to a subgroup analysis from the phase III IMpower150 trial presented at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting, the addition of immunotherapy to bevacizumab and a chemotherapy doublet improved progression-free survival in patients with non–small cell lung cancer and baseline liver metastases.
Announced at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting, the FDA is rolling out a pilot program that will provide more information and assistance for acquiring expanded access (EA) to investigational therapies for both oncologists and patients. The program is being called Project Facilitate.
Findings from 2 studies of patients with operable early-stage non–small cell lung cancer showed preoperative immunotherapy had positive activity and favorable toxicity, according to a presentation at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting, and phase III clinical trials are already testing these stratgies.
Results from a survey conducted by the Society of Gynecologic Oncology found that 70% of female and more than half of male gynecologic oncologists in the United States were victims of sexual harassment in either training or practice; and of those, only 10% said they reported their experiences.