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Sotorasib and RMC-4630 elicited promising preliminary activity in pretreated and KRAS G12C inhibitor–naïve patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Tepotinib achieved robust efficacy in patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring MET exon 14 skipping alterations, according to a primary analysis of cohort C of the phase 2 VISION trial.

Pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib demonstrated promising clinical activity with no unexpected toxicities in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma, according to results from the PEMMELA study.

Sitravatinib plus tislelizumab showed a confirmed investigator-assessed overall response rate of 30.4% in PD-L1–positive, treatment-naïve, locally advanced or metastatic squamous non–small cell lung cancer.

Sotorasib plus either pembrolizumab or atezolizumab revealed promising efficacy and relatively low rates of hepatotoxicity with a lead-in dosing strategy in patients with KRAS G12C–positive non–small cell lung cancer.

A phase 1a trial of GDC-6036 showed encouraging antitumor activity with a manageable safety profile as a single agent in previously treated patients with KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

Comparable outcomes seen with sintilimab vs pembrolizumab in patients with treatment-naïve metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Unique signaling pathways and significant differentially-expressed genes was found from 4 subgroups of patients with MET exon 14 skipping non–small cell lung cancer.

Treatment with concurrent sugemalimab demonstrated prolonged progression-free survival in patients with stage III unresectable non–small cell lung cancer.

Using neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy to treat patients with stage IIIA resectable non–small cell lung cancer based on differences between pathologic complete responders and non–pathologic complete responders is supported by the phase 2 NADIM trial.

Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy vs single-agent docetaxel with be evaluated in the phase 3 EVOKE-01 trial of patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Overall survival benefit was sustained with second- or third-line tislelizumab in patients with non–small cell lung cancer vs docetaxel in the final analysis of the phase 3 RATIONALE-303 trial.

Ociperlimab plus tislelizumab revealed promising efficacy in adults with treatment-naïve, metastatic, PD-L1–positive non­–small cell lung cancer.

First-line durvalumab in combination with tremelimumab improved overall survival vs standard-of-care chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Tremelimumab plus durvalumab and chemotherapy displayed improvements in clinical and survival benefit in patients with PD-L1 negative metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Larotrectinib continued to demonstrate favorable efficacy and survival outcomes with low toxicity, according to extended follow-up for 2 trials of patients with lung cancer and NTRK fusions.

Aaron T. Gerds, MD, MS, discusses the clinical trial development of momelotinib, a JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor that is being investigated for the treatment of patients with myelofibrosis.

The addition of zanubrutinib to obinutuzumab in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma demonstrated improved overall response rates, progression-free survival, and overall survival.

Rivoceranib showed promising responses in regard to objective response rate and disease control rate when used in patients with recurrent or metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma.

Dostarlimab monotherapy induced durable antitumor activity in advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer among patients with mismatch repair deficient/microsatellite instability–high or mismatch repair proficient/mismatch stable disease, according to data from 2 expansion cohorts in the GARNET trial.

At the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting, utilizing matching-adjusted indirect comparison, researchers showed the survival benefit of larotrectinib in patients with TRK fusion-positive tumors.

Selinexor has demonstrated improvement in progression-free survival over placebo in patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

Reduced risk of metastatic progression and improved overall survival seen with darolutamide in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

FOLFOXIRI plus panitumumab should not be recommended as upfront therapy for RAS and BRAF wild-type mCRC patients. according to investigators of the phase 3 TRIPLETE study.

According to Timothy J. Whelan, MD, FASCO, radiotherapy is an inconvenient treatment. It can last daily for up to 5 weeks and it is a costly therapy. Study results shows that is can safely be omitted in the treatment of some patients with luminal A breast cancers.

Phase 3 CAIRO5 showed improvements in progression-free survival and overall response with FOLFOXIRI plus bevacizumab in colorectal cancer liver metastases, but the combination demonstrated a toxic safety profile.

At the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting, results from the GEMSTONE-302 trial showed that adding sugemalimab to chemotherapy improved survival in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Potential biomarkers of overall survival outcomes have been identified in an exploratory post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 TITAN trial.

According to Conor E. Steuer, MD, patritumab deruxtecan showed promising clinical activity in heavily pretreated patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer with or without identified variant genomic alterations.

Ruxolitinib and chemotherapy appeared to boost progression-free survival in patients with stage III and IV ovarian cancer when given before or after surgery.