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Alan Tan, MD, discusses areas of interest in the research and development of circulating tumor DNA in renal cell carcinoma.

Results unveiled at the 2023 International Kidney Cancer Symposium revealed that patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma in the 200-mg dose group achieved an overall response rate of 23.1% based on blinded independent central review.

In a presentation at the 2023 International Kidney Cancer Symposium, Jaleh Fallah, MD, discussed the regulatory agency’s evaluation of data from the phase 2 LITESPARK-004 trial, which led to the approval of belzutifan.

Patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma treated with zanzalintinib had experienced promising antitumor activity with manageable toxicity regardless of prior treatment with cabozantinib.

An expert discussed how recent studies in patients with translocation RCC, a rare type of RCC, have demonstrated that the disease responds well to immune checkpoint inhibitors, but more focus is needed on novel targets to treat it.

AU-007 demonstrated promising early efficacy and safety data when given alone or in combination with aldesleukin across multiple solid tumor types.

In an exploratory analysis, different doses of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki revealed consistent intracranial responses in HER2-mutated non–small cell lung cancer with treated or untreated brain metastases at baseline.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Brian Slomovitz, MD, details findings from the innovaTV 301 trial investigating tisotumab vedotin for the treatment of recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.

Datopotamab deruxtecan delivered promising responses in patients with heavily pretreated non–small cell lung cancer with actionable genomic alterations.

ARX517 showed early efficacy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in the phase 1/2 APEX-01 study.

Over three-fourths of patients with BCG-unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with TAR-200 achieved complete responses in the phase 2b SUNRISE-1 trial.

Treatment with datopotamab deruxtecan improved progression-free survival vs docetaxel in patients with advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

In a phase 2 study, frontline bortezomib, rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, prednisone, and cytarabine hydrochloride was well tolerated in patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin marginal zone lymphoma.

Amivantamab-vmjw with lazertinib showed positive survival results vs osimertinib as frontline therapy for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring classical EGFR sensitizing mutations.

Pembrolizumab and mRNA-4157 demonstrated improvements in subgroups of resected melanoma, including those with BRAF-mutated tumors, in the phase 2 KEYNOTE-942 trial.

The safety run-in of the LEAP-014 trial showed acceptable toxicity and antitumor responses in patients with metastatic esophageal cancer receiving pembrolizumab, lenvatinib, and chemotherapy consisting of cisplatin plus either paclitaxel or 5-fluororacil.

An exploratory analysis of Study 309/KEYNOTE-775 showed further benefit for patients and consistent safety in patients who received pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib for advanced endometrial cancer who continued lenvatinib treatment.

A novel CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody showed promising safety and preliminary antitumor activity in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Treatment with datopotamab deruxtecan led to a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival in patients with metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

In the phase 3 CLEAR study, lenvatinib combined with pembrolizumab continued to elicit deep and durable tumor response among patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Findings from the ENGOT-EN6-NSGO/GOG-3031/RUBY trial showed that patients with dMMR/MSI-H had a progression-free survival rate of 57.0% in the dostarlimab arm vs 10.2% in the placebo arm.

Enfortumab vedotin-ejfv plus pembrolizumab improves survival in patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

At a median follow-up of 13.9 months, patients with extra-pancreatic NETs treated with cabozantinib experienced a median progression-free survival of 8.3 months vs 3.2 months with placebo.

The multicenter, open-label, CodeBreaK 300 trial of sotorasib plus panitumumab showed consistent efficacy across key subgroups of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer harboring KRAS G12C mutations.

Data presented at the 2023 ESMO Congress and showed that induction chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation reduced the risk of progression or death by 35% vs chemoradiation alone in patients with cervical cancer.

Tisotumab vedotin-tftv improved survival in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer with disease progression on doublet chemotherapy.