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Immune-related adverse effects may show significantly longer progression-free survival and overall survival in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma who are receiving pembrolizumab.

JSP191 combined with fludarabine, and low-dose total body radiation demonstrated facilitation of full donor myeloid chimerism, clearing of minimal residual disease, and a well-tolerated safety profile in older patients with myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia receiving non-myeloablative allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

Looking at 4 CAR T-cell agents for the treatment of large B-cell lymphoma, a systematic review and analysis showed that these therapies do not appear to increase the risk of cytokine release syndrome or immune effector cell–associated neurotoxicity syndrome.

Total body irradiation (TBI) regimen and myeloablative transplantation followed by a graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis regimen resulted in a low occurrence of GVHD in adult and pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies

Findings from an analysis of the KarMMa study in patients with multiple myeloma signal that certain baseline characteristics are predictive of response to chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.

Match-adjusted analysis of patients with follicular lymphoma treated with axicabtagene ciloleucel in the ZUMA-5 trial vs those treated with tisagenlecleucel in ELARA showed a similar outcomes in regard to efficacy between the 2 cellular therapies.

Based on an interim analysis of a randomized phase 2 trial, use of topical ruxolitinib showed reduced body surface area of chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Results from the phase 2 CARITUDE-2 trial of ciltacabtagene autoleucel in patients with multiple myeloma signaled that a 1 infusion can achieve deep responses.

Continued benefit of axicabtagene ciloleucel in patients with relapse/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma was observed in the phase 2 ZUMA-5 clinical trial.

In patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma, the chimeric antigen receptor T-cell agent, lisocabtagene maraleucel demonstrated durable responses.

The majority of patients treated in a phase 1 trial of belimumab used as chronic graft-vs-host-disease prophylaxis showed no evidence of the disease after 20 months of follow-up.

In a phase 2 trial, rates of steroid-refractory chronic graft versus host disease and prednisone use following treatment with abatacept after stem cell transplant were reduced.

In the prospective, double-blind, phase 2 randomized controlled trial, in which investigators evaluated the efficacy and safety of topical ruxolitinib, a novel gene signature was identified.

Melhem Solh, MD, discusses how the standard of care for patients with myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia with the tumor protein 53 gene mutation has changed over the past decade.

According to a long-term analysis of the ZUMA-1 study, the overall survival rate yielded by axicabtagene ciloleucel may support 1- and 2-year event-free survival as a surrogate end point in relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Frontline treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel demonstrated a high rate of rapid and durable responses in patients with high-risk large B-cell lymphoma in the phase 2 ZUMA-12 study.

Molecular characteristics associated with resistance to CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia can hopefully improve patient selection and eligibility for therapy.

Results from a post-hoc exploratory analysis of the TALAPRO-1 study signal that high genomic loss of heterozygosity may be assiciated with enhanced response to talazoparib in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Paul G. Richardson, MD, discusses the latest regulatory movement in the multiple myeloma space.

Findings of CheckMate 816 show improved event-free survival and partial complete response and promising overall survival results with the use of neoadjuvant nivolumab in combination with chemotherapy for patients with resectable NSCLC.

Results from the phase 2 CheckMate-848 study show that nivolumab in combination and ipilimumab may be effective for the treatment of advanced or metastatic tumor mutational burden–high solid tumors that were refractory to standard therapies.

According to Tanjina Kader, PhD, 12% of patients in the cohort who developed new, independent primary tumors raised the question of whether using these genetic biomarkers for prediction of recurrence is a good idea.

Preclinical research indicates that anti-mesothelin chimeric antigen receptor T cells may be more effective than gavocabtagene autoleucel in mesothelin-expressing tumors.

Prolonged periods of radiographic and clinical improvement in children and young adults with H3K27M diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas and spinal diffuse midline gliomas has been shown with GD2-directed chimeric antigen receptor T cells.

The bispecific antibody therapy AMF13 combined with preactivated and expanded natural killer cells showed encouraging activity in patients with heavily pretreated lymphoma.

Four-year follow-up data from the KEYNOTE-042 show promising survival and durable response in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Matthew J. Matasar, MD, discusses the ways to improve on the combination of R-CHOP in patients with diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma.

Evidence for on-target activity of temferon has been demonstrated in patients with glioblastoma, according to the phase 1/2a TEM-GBM study.

According to a phase 1/2 study, nivolumab plus PD-L1/IDO peptide vaccine may be effective for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma.

During a presentation, Paul G. Richardson, MD, talked about the shift from triplet combination therapies toward quadruplet combinations for the treatment of multiple myeloma.