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A new combination therapy involving belantamab mafodotin, carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone showed promising results in patients with multiple myeloma who had received 1 prior line of therapy.

Savita Dandapani, MD, PhD, discussed combining radium-223 and SBRT for metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

A new allogeneic CAR T-cell therapy, P-BCMA-ALLO1, has shown promising results in treating heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The CARTITUDE-4 study found that cilta-cel reduced the risk of death by 45% compared to standard of care in patients with multiple myeloma.

Chunhui Han, PhD, discusses what biology-guided radiotherapy is and how it differs from traditional radiotherapy techniques.

Ashraf Z. Badros, MB, ChB, discusses the key takeaways from the phase 3 AURIGA trial.

Percy Lee, MD, discussed findings from a trial evaluating a hypofractionated approach to concurrent chemoradiation, incorporating an adaptive stereotactic ablative radiotherapy boost in non–small cell lung cancer.

A study found that anito-cel is a promising CAR T-cell therapy for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma with high efficacy and manageable safety.

A new CAR T-cell therapy, durcabtagene autoleucel, showed promising results in treating relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma with high response rates and manageable adverse effects.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Chunhui Han, PhD, discussed the use of Ga 68 PSMA-11 for the imaging of metastatic sites in patients with prostate cancer.

Daratumumab plus VRd is a more effective frontline treatment option for patients who cannot undergo immediate transplant, offering a promising approach to deeper disease response.

Maintenance therapy with daratumumab and lenalidomide led to higher MRD-negative conversion rates compared to lenalidomide alone in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients following transplant.

Isa-KRd showed deep responses, high MRD negativity rates, and manageable safety in patients with newly diagnosed, transplant-eligible multiple myeloma, as per interim analysis of the IFM2020-02 MIDAS study.

In TRIMM-2, an overall response rate of 82% was seen amon patients given talquetamab plus daratumumab and pomalidomide in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Binod Dhakal, MD, MS, discusses some of the challenges often seen in the myeloma space, particularly those with lenalidomide-refractory multiple myeloma.

A new drug combination, talquetamab and teclistamab, shows promising results in treating patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma, with high response rates and durable responses.

Saad Z. Usmani, MD, MBA, FACP, FASCO, discusses the phase 3 CEPHEUS trial of daratumumab with bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Nancy Lin, MD, discusses the efficacy of T-DXd for brain metastases as seen in DESTINYBreast-12 compared with other agents.

Sun Gwe Ahn, MD, discusses an exploratory analysis of the HERA trial at the 2024 ESMO Congress.

NKT2152, a novel oral HIF-2α inhibitor, showed promising results in treating advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma, with an objective response rate of 20% in all-comers and 26.3% in the dose-escalation population.

Careful management by a team of specialists is needed to balance disease control and fetal health in patients with CML who are pregnant or trying to become prengant.

The ELECTRA trial found that the combination of elacestrant and abemaciclib was well-tolerated and showed promising clinical activity in patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer who had previously received endocrine therapy and another CDK4/6 inhibitor.

Combination therapies in CLL are generating excitement with ongoing trials that could expand standard practice for the future.

CheckMate-9ER post hoc analysis suggests certain sugar molecules on blood proteins may predict how well niovlumab and cabozantinib in kidney cancer treatment works.

The GigaPath AI model was highlighted for its advanced capabilities in predicting cancer mutations and tumor mutation burden, including those in lung cancer and other malignancies.

Discover they major updates in oncology from the 2024 ESMO Congress, including featured breakthroughs from the leading experts.

The combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab showed promising results in treating recurrent endometrial carcinoma, demonstrating significant antitumor activity and improved survival rates compared to standard therapy.

Targeted therapy, as determined by genomic profiling, outperformed standard of care in patients with pretreated metastatic cancers.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to surgery and postoperative radiation therapy could improve organ preservation in patients with T3 and T4a nasal and paranasal sinus squamous cell carcinoma.

A phase 2 trial of ipilimumab plus nivolumab has met its primary end point of 12-month overall survival rate in non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma.