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Compared with a placebo, adjuvant pembrolizumab led to a significant reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death in patients with resected, high-risk stage II melanoma.

In previously untreated patients with metastatic or unresectable melanoma, the addition of relatlimab to nivolumab prolonged benefit beyond initial treatment and first progression and reduced the risk of progression or death after the next line of systemic therapy vs nivolumab alone.

Osimertinib (Tagrisso) plus bevacizumab does not produce a superior progression-free survival (PFS) benefit over osimertinib monotherapy in patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer harboring an EGFR mutation. However, for patients who have a history of smoking or an exon 20 deletion, the combination may prove beneficial.

In a presentation at the 2021 ESMO Congress, researchers discussed how nivolumab plus ipilimumab showed superior efficacy results after a 5-year follow-up in comparison to single-agent sunitinib.

An exploratory subgroup analysis of the CheckMate 9ER trial discussed at the 2021 ESMO Congress showed significant benefits to progression-free survival for patients with renal cell carcinoma on nivolumab and cabozantinib regardless if they had prior nephrectomy.

Theodore W. Laetsch, MD, an attending physician at the Cancer Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses the efficacy of larotrectinib in patients with TRK-fusion cancers.

Cabozantinib is a feasible perioperative treatment and induced responses in patients with intermediate and poor-risk metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

In Western patients with HER2-positive gastric/gastroesophageal junction cancer Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki as a second-line treatment elicited a 38% confirmed objective response rate.

In patients with advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma regardless of PD-L1 expression, the addition of toripalimab to platinum-based chemotherapy demonstrated significantly improved survival outcomes.

Pathological complete response rates and event-free survival in patients with treatment-naïve triple-negative breast cancer were improved with The addition of carboplatin to neoadjuvant paclitaxel followed by doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide.

In patients with metastatic or locally advanced urothelial carcinoma harboring FGFR alterations, erdafitinib (Balversa) in combination with cetrelimab displayed clinically meaningful responses.

Compared indirectly with real-world data of patients treated with standard of care, mobocertinib, a novel EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor, exhibited clinically meaningful activity in patients with non–small cell lung cancer who harbor EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations following frontline platinum-based chemotherapy.

A 52% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death and a 56% reduction in the risk of intracranial progression was seen with brigatinib compared with crizotinib in patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Mobocertinib displayed a manageable safety profile across 40-mg, 120-mg, and 160-mg dose cohorts, leading to the determination of 160 mg as the maximum tolerated dose and recommended phase 2 dose for further study in Japanese patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Limited responses as a second-line treatment for patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer were seen with Linagliptin plus atezolizumab.

While the benefit is yet to be determined in those with favorable-risk disease, patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma experienced improvements in both progression-free and overall survival after being treated with first-line immunotherapy vs sunitinib.

High responses to single-agent dostarlimab-gxly were seen in patients with endometrial cancer who had a high tumor mutational burden, irrespective of mismatch repair or microsatellite stability status.

Compared with a placebo, darolutamide demonstrated a similar safety profile in men with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC) continuing androgen-deprivation therapy, with comparable adverse event onset and occurrence rates.

Darolutamide was statistically significantly associated with better episodic memory over enzaluamide, according to computerized cognitive assessment in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Alan Lombard, PhD, shared insight on mechanisms of resistance to PARP inhibition with olaparib and explained how this resistance may be overcome.

An impressive disease-free survival benefit was seen in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma with pembrolizumab as an adjuvant therapy following nephrectomy compared with placebo. This improvement was observed across subgroups.

Future studies on genitourinary cancer may be limited as many currently lack data on how smoking impacts outcomes in this patient population.

Phase 2 research highlights a wellness modality that may improve outcomes in men with prostate cancer.

n a phase 2 study of patients with BCG-unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer, treatment with recombinant pox-viral vector vaccine Panvac plus bacillus Calmette-Guérin did not significantly improve clinical outcomes.

Administration of direct intramural injection and intravesical instillations of large surface area microparticle docetaxel may be safe and effective in high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer using a particular technique.

Data from the phase 1b ABC study show that the addition of avelumab to BCG induction therapy was safe and well tolerated in patients with BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

An update from KEYNOTE-365 trial shows the promising efficacy of olaparib in combination with pembrolizumab for patients with post-docetaxel metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Regardless of prior antiandrogen therapy and its pretreatment duration, enzalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy produced clinical benefit over ADT alone in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Darolutamide has shown an impact on local symptoms in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. One of the impacts was a delay in time to HRQOL deterioration.