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DCC-3116 demonstrated safety and tolerability across various dose levels in patients with solid tumors harboring a RAS or RAF mutation, according to findings from a phase 1/2 trial presented at the 2022 ESMO Congress.

Multiple blood-based biomarkers suggest potential responses to treatment with maintenance avelumab for patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma from the phase 3 JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial, according to an exploratory analysis presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2022.

Androgen deprivation therapy plus abiraterone acetate and prednisolone resulted in a clinically meaningful overall survival benefit, but this in combination with enzalutamide fell short in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

After extended follow-up, continued benefit was seen with the combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab in patients with advanced endometrial cancer who previously received platinum chemotherapy, updated efficacy and safety findings from the phase 3 Study 309/KEYNOTE-775 trial showed.

Maintenance rucaparib (Rubraca) induced a progression-free survival (PFS) improvement in patients with newly diagnosed ovarian cancer compared with placebo, which was also seen across all prespecified subgroups.

Adjuvant nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with localized renal cell carcinoma at high risk for relapse after nephrectomy failed to significantly improve disease-free survival vs placebo in part A of the phase 3 CheckMate 914 trial.

Patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma did not show statistically significant improvement in event-free survival with pembrolizumab plus chemoradiation vs chemoradiation alone.

Positive signals from a blood-based multi-cancer early detection test led to cancer diagnoses after the test indicated potential cancers in 1.4% of individuals from an otherwise healthy cohort of participants in the the prospective PATHFINDER study.

Improvement in overall survival for patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma was demonstrated with xevinapant plus standard chemoradiotherapy vs matched placebo at the 5-year mark.

Adding a limited course of tremelimumab to durvalumab plus chemotherapy induced long-term OS in patients with metastatic NSCLC, even when stratified by histology and mutation status.

Perioperative nivolumab in patients with RCC, at high risk for recurrence, did not see an improved RFS, but analyses within the phase 3 trial could inform future research.

Atezolizumab given post-resection did not improve patients’ with renal cell carcinoma, at increased risk for recurrence, clinical outcomes compared to placebo.

New results from the DESTINY-Gastric02 study include responses, survival data for patients receiving trastuzumab deruxtecan for with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Naporafenib, in combination with several therapies, showed strong efficacy for patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

The AMEERA-3 trial failed to meet its primary end point of superior progression-free survival for amcenestrant compared with endocrine therapy in patients with endocrine-resistant, ER-positive advanced breast cancer.

With 30 months additional follow-up on the EMPOWER-Cervical 1 trial, cemiplimab monotherapy showed efficacy in patients with metastatic cervical cancer.

At the 2022 ESMO Congress, results from the final analysis of the RATIONALE-301 study showed that tislelizumab monotherapy continued to have clinically meaningful anti-tumor activity vs sorafenib in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

An updated analysis of the KEYNOTE-365 study of pembrolizumab plus abiraterone showed that patients with chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer had prostate-specific antigen responses.

ADP-A2M4CD8, an autologous T-cell therapy, showed promising antitumor activity in several solid tumor types including ovarian, gastric, and urothelial cancer.

The antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan demonstrated superior overall response rate and progression-free survival in patients with breast cancer with limited options due to lack of high HER2 expression.

While lasfoxifene alone did not meet the primary end points that researchers set out for it, they did find that it improves responses in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer harboring ESR1 mutations.

The oncolytic virus T-VEC showed consistent improvements at 5 years for patients with stage IIIB to IVM1a melanoma.

Adding abemaciclib to trastuzumab improved overall survival in women with with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-positive advanced breast cancer, according to new findings discussed at the 2022 ESMO Congress.

Data from the Defi trial shows that nirogacestat had a significant reduction in the risk of disease progression for patients with progressive desmoid tumors.

A novel tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy showed a 50% reduction in the risk of death for patients with stage IIIC/IV unresectable, treatment-refractory melanoma.

A study of air pollutant particulate matter shows that it may be a mechanistic driver for lung cancer, showing a need to curb its source.

Although the combination use of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab did not induce statistically significant differences in the co-primary end points, the LEAP-002 trial induced the longest seen median overall survival with lenvatinib monotherapy in patients with unresectable HCC.

Findings presented at ESMO 2022 show the survival benefits of camrelizumab plus rivoceranib in patients with unresectable HCC.

The phase 2 DAWNA-2 trial of dalpiciclib plus letrozole or anastrozole led to a reduced the risk of disease progression vs chemotherapy alone in patients with treatment-naïve, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

The investigational carcinoembryonic antigen claudin 6–directed CAR T-cell therapy BNT211-01 displayed clinical activity in combination with a CLDN6-encoding mRNA vaccine in patients with CLDN6-positive relapsed/refractory advanced solid tumors.